yahoo news | World Foundation Sells $65M in WLD as Token Hits Record Lows

Sam Altman’s World Foundation announced that it has raised $65 million through an over‑the‑counter (OTC) sale of its Worldcoin (WLD) token. The sale was executed by the foundation’s token‑issuance arm, World Assets, which sold roughly 239 million WLD to four counterparties, at an average price of about $0.27 per token. Of the proceeds, $25 million worth of tokens are subject to a six‑month lock‑up, while the remaining amount was made immediately liquid, and the funds are earmarked for core operations, research and development, orb manufacturing, ecosystem development, and related activities.

The transaction comes as WLD has slid to a new all‑time low, briefly touching $0.24 before rebounding to $0.27, representing a roughly 97 percent decline from its March 2024 peak of $11.82. At the time of reporting the token was trading around $0.2725, up 0.28 percent in the previous 24 hours. Market pressure could intensify because a major community‑token unlock is slated for 23 July, covering about 52.5 percent of the token’s total 10 billion supply, according to DefiLlama. The current discounted sale also contrasts sharply with the May 2023 round, when World raised $135 million at roughly $1.13 per token from investors such as Andreessen Horowitz and Bain Capital Crypto.

Regulatory scrutiny continues to dog the project. In October 2022, Thai authorities raided an iris‑scanning site linked to World, alleging violations of digital‑asset licensing rules, which led to arrests and an ongoing investigation. Similar challenges have emerged in Indonesia, Germany, Kenya and Brazil, where regulators have raised concerns about licensing and the handling of sensitive biometric data. These legal hurdles add further uncertainty to World’s ambitious rollout and its already‑turbulent market performance.

Read more: https://cointelegraph.com/news/sam-altman-world-wld-sale-65m-token-lows

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A New #AI #Documentary Puts CEOs in the Hot Seat—but Goes Too Easy on Them

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an #Apocaloptimist seeks the middle ground on a polarizing technology—and ends up letting tech execs like #SamAltman off the hook.
#artificialintelligence #politics #responsibility #ethics #privacy #security

https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-documentary-puts-ceos-in-the-hot-seat-but-goes-too-easy-on-them/

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yahoo news | Mark Zuckerberg offered to 'help' Elon Musk with DOGE in 2025

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, whose rivalry once led to a promised but never‑realized cage match in 2023, appear to have been on friendlier terms by early 2025. Court documents released on Friday show that on February 3, 2025 Zuckerberg texted Musk about his work with the now‑defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), saying “Looks like DOGE is making progress” and offering Meta’s assistance in taking down doxxing or threatening content aimed at the DOGE team. The same day a U.S. Attorney announced protection for DOGE employees, and it coincided with Meta’s public shift away from traditional content moderation toward “free expression.”

Musk replied with a heart emoji and quickly steered the conversation toward OpenAI, asking Zuckerberg if he was “open to the idea of bidding on the OpenAI IP with me and some others.” Zuckerberg requested a live discussion, and Musk said he would call the next day. Earlier filings in Musk’s lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI reveal that Musk had indeed invited Zuckerberg to help acquire OpenAI, though Zuckerberg never formally joined the bid. Musk’s legal team later argued that these private exchanges should be excluded from the case, labeling them “tangential and prejudicial” and claiming they were intended only to inflame negative sentiment toward Musk because of his association with Zuckerberg.

In a separate filing, Musk’s attorneys objected to Altman’s lawyers probing Musk’s alleged ketamine use and his attendance at Burning Man in 2017, stating that such questions are “outlandish” and irrelevant to the dispute. A deposition transcript shows Musk denied taking “rhino ket” at the festival, and a judge later limited OpenAI’s ability to question him about Burning Man, barring inquiries into ketamine. A Meta spokesperson declined to comment on the matter.

Read more: https://tech.yahoo.com/social-media/articles/mark-zuckerberg-offered-help-elon-211737040.html

#markzuckerberg #elonmusk #doge #openai #samaltman

A New AI Documentary Puts CEOs in the Hot Seat—but Goes Too Easy on Them

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-documentary-puts-ceos-in-the-hot-seat-but-goes-too-easy-on-them/

yahoo news | A New AI Documentary Puts CEOs in the Hot Seat—but Goes Too Easy on Them

The new documentary The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist places some of the most powerful AI leaders—OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis—on camera, but it ultimately lets them off the hook. Director Daniel Roher, who previously won an Oscar for Navalny, initially wanted a feature centered on a conversation with Altman, but after months of being ignored he resorted to a chatbot that mimics Altman’s speech and mannerisms. When Altman finally appears, his answers are glib and non‑committal; when Roher asks why anyone should trust him to steer the rapid acceleration of AI, Altman replies, “You shouldn’t,” and the interview ends. The film is framed by Roher’s anxiety about the world his newborn son will inherit, and early interviews—particularly with Tristan Harris of the Center for Humane Technology—underscore a looming sense of panic about AI’s impact on education, employment and even basic survival.

Roher and co‑director Charlie Tyrell use the documentary to deliver a surprisingly clear crash course on AI, defining technical terms in plain language while visually anchoring the narrative with Roher’s own drawings, paintings, and whimsical stop‑motion sequences that hint at producer Daniel Kwan’s influence. Yet the film shies away from probing the grand claims of Silicon Valley optimists who promise AI will cure disease and reverse climate change. Interviews with industry figures such as Reid Hoffman reduce the conversation to vague acknowledgements that benefits will come with “unspecified harms,” and the documentary never deeply interrogates the pathway from today’s large language models to a hypothetical artificial general intelligence. Instead, it leans on a familiar playbook: presenting the technology as consequential while implying that only the interviewed CEOs can be trusted to manage it.

In its conclusion, the documentary urges ordinary citizens to pressure governments and corporations to steer AI toward a “safest, narrowest path toward prosperity for all,” pairing that call to action with footage of historic public projects like the Golden Gate Bridge. After a screening at Los Angeles’ Academy Museum, the filmmakers emphasized the film as a starting point for broader dialogue, yet their optimism feels clouded by a need for a hopeful ending for Roher’s growing family. By presenting the executives as mere passengers in a larger narrative and allowing them to shrug off responsibility for the systems they’ve built, the film risks normalizing a lack of accountability even as it calls viewers to demand more rigorous oversight and collective stewardship of AI’s future.

Read more: https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-ai-documentary-puts-ceos-in-the-hot-seat-but-goes-too-easy-on-them/

#openai #samaltman #anthropic #darioamodei #centerforhumanetechnology

yahoo news | The Sora Embarrassment is a Reflection of OpenAI's Juvenile Culture

Sam Altman’s Sora was billed as an affordable AI video app that let users upload a likeness for $20 a month and generate quirky clips—think a cartoon version of yourself shoplifting at Home Depot or arguing with a cat at a restaurant. While the novelty sparked a flood of meme‑filled videos on social media, the service was financially disastrous: it burned roughly $15 million a day for OpenAI yet only returned $1.4 million in revenue, and downloads have dropped 75 percent since its October launch.

The failure of Sora also casts doubt on similar ventures such as Google’s Veo and ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0. Both companies are pouring comparable sums into AI‑generated video, but the market appears unable to sustain such costly, low‑margin products. Even occasional social‑media successes—like the “Chloe vs History” Instagram account—cannot offset the operating expenses, prompting questions about how long these tech giants will keep loss‑making video generators alive.

Beyond video, Sora’s demise highlights a broader malaise at OpenAI. Competing products like Anthropic’s Claude Code are siphoning users from OpenAI’s Codex, and flagship offerings such as ChatGPT have been dropped by major partners like Walmart. Altman’s newest “Spud” model is touted as a game‑changer, yet it sounds as frivolous as the teenage‑ish culture that produced Sora. If AI video cannot find a viable use case, the industry may face a similar collapse, undermining the optimism that AI will prop up the U.S. economy.

Read more: https://petapixel.com/2026/03/26/the-sora-embarrassment-is-a-reflection-of-openais-juvenile-culture/

#samaltman #sora #openai #anthropic

Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai)

샘 알트먼이 트랜스포머만큼 큰 성능 향상을 가져올 새로운 AI 아키텍처가 아직 더 발견될 수 있다고 언급했다. 또한 현재의 모델들이 그런 연구를 도울 만큼 충분히 똑똑해졌다고 강조했다.

https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2037279542784778477

#samaltman #openai #architecture #transformer #research

IA: Como a China está vencendo

https://outraspalavras.net/tecnologiaemdisputa/ia-como-a-china-esta-vencendo/