Behold, the Orb: I can't stop thinking about Sam Altman's dystopian eyeball-scanning device

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Worldcoin's Orb is popping up in a number of cities, lending what some online have called a dystopian air to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's project.

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Elon Musk's Twitter rebrand sparks massive rallies in obscure crypto tokens with 'X' names

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Elon Musk has been giving away Twitter Blue checkmarks for free

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Bitcoin could soar to $180,000 before the April 2024 halving as potential BlackRock ETF helps drive demand, Fundstrat says

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Sam Altman's vision for the future of currency is here — and it involves scanning your eyeballs through an 'orb'

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Sam Altman gesturing with both hands while talking to members of the media.
Sam Altman has launched Worldcoin to counter the challenges posed by AI.

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Elon Musk riffed on Oppenheimer's iconic quote to declare a meme war on Tesla short sellers. They still won't give up, he says.

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Elon Musk at the Met Gala.
Elon Musk.

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A bitcoin positive-feedback loop could more than quadruple the price beyond $120,000, analyst says

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Sam Bankman-Fried is paying his defense lawyers with $10 million of misappropriated FTX funds, lawsuit says

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Sam Bankman-Fried.

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The crypto craze is fading as fans embrace AI mania instead, 'Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb says

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'The Black Swan' author Nassim Taleb.

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FTX planned to purchase the Pacific island nation of Nauru to build an apocalypse bunker, lawsuit says

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Sam Bankman-Fried, wearing a suit jacket with the collar popped, is directed away from photographers by a bodyguard, outside Manhattan Federal Court on June 15.
Sam Bankman-Fried.

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Caroline Ellison is a math whiz, trader, and the shadow figure behind FTX's collapse — and now some of her personal notes on her feelings about her job have been revealed

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