German watchdog orders Worldcoin to delete non-compliant data

December 19, 2024 Coin Telegraph

Worldcoin and Tools for Humanity Fined in South Korea

September 27, 2024 Bitcoin.com

Worldcoin faces ‘scam’ allegations after extending token lockup by 2 years

July 17, 2024 Coin Telegraph

Worldcoin partners with Alchemy to build blockchain infrastructure

June 26, 2024 Coin Telegraph

Worldcoin Agrees to Temporarily Stop Operations in Spain

June 7, 2024 Bitcoin.com

Worldcoin CEO Met With Argentine Government Officials Amidst Ongoing Probes

May 8, 2024 Bitcoin.com

Worldcoin Introduces Complaint Against Operations Ban in Spain

March 10, 2024 Bitcoin.com

Sam Altman ousted from OpenAI, CTO Mira Murati named interim CEO

November 17, 2023 Coin Telegraph

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The Board of Directors removed Altman on the grounds that he was allegedly ‘not consistently candid in his communications with the board.’

ChatGPT developer OpenAI has removed founder Sam Altman from its CEO position, according to a November 17 blog post. Chief technology officer Mira Murati will be promoted to interim CEO. According to the post, the Board of Directors engaged in a “deliberative review process,” which resulted in the conclusion that Altman “was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities.”

Altman could not immediately be reached for comment.

OpenAI announces leadership transition https://t.co/fFYDLwGXQz
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) November 17, 2023

The Board of Directors for OpenAI stated that it remains committed to building artificial intelligence (AI) applications going forward:

“OpenAI was deliberately structured to advance our mission: to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all humanity. The board remains fully committed to serving this mission[…]Mira is exceptionally qualified to step into the role of interim CEO. We have the utmost confidence in her ability to lead OpenAI during this transition period.”

The board also stated that it is “grateful for Sam’s many contributions to the founding and growth of OpenAI” but claimed that “new leadership is necessary as we move forward.” The board’s chairman, Greg Brockman, will also be stepping down from his position. However, he will remain as an employee, “reporting to the CEO,” according to the post.

The board of directors consists of Adam D’Angelo, Tasha McCauley, Helen Toner, and OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. According to the post, the majority of board members are “independent directors” who do not hold equity in OpenAI.

Sam Altman is also the founder of Tools for Humanity, the developer of crypto project Worldcoin. Cointelegraph reached out to Tools for Humanity for comment, but did not get a response by the time of publication.

This is a developing story, and further information will be added as it becomes available.

Worldcoin claims 4 million app downloads and 1 million active users

November 1, 2023 Coin Telegraph

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The ‘World App’ for iOS and Android has now been downloaded 4 million times, according to data collected by its development team, Tools for Humanity.

Iris-scanning project Worldcoin has reached a new milestone, as its mobile World App has now been downloaded over 4 million times, according to a November 1 blog post from the project’s team. If this number is eventually confirmed by Coingecko, it could place World App in sixth place in Coingecko’s list of most downloaded software wallets.

The Worldcoin development team, called “Tools for Humanity,” also claimed that it now has over 1 million monthly users, double the number it had six months ago.

World App now has more than 1 million monthly active users, 4 million downloads and 22 million transactions. Not bad for six months pic.twitter.com/pagXxTfc8E
— Tools For Humanity (@tfh_technology) November 1, 2023

Worldcoin is a project that allows users to prove their humanness by having their irises scanned. Once the user has their iris scanned, they receive a “World ID” which can be used to verify to applications that they are not a bot. Each user who goes through verification receives 25 Worldcoin (WLD) tokens, worth approximately $46.50 currently.

The project has become popular in developing markets like Argentina, as some participants have seen registering and then selling the coins as a quick way to make a few extra bucks.

However, Worldcoin has also been criticized for allegedly being a danger to privacy. Critics claim that it is too centralized and can result in users’ data being leaked publicly.

In order to cash out their WLD, users of Worldcoin need to download the World App to generate an account. In its November 1 post, the team stated that the app has now been downloaded over 4 million times. This would place it above the Solana Phantom wallet but below Bitcoin.com’s Bitcoin wallet on Coingecko’s list of most popular wallets.

Some of the users who register appear to be sticking around and continuing to use the app after it is downloaded. The app has reached 1 million monthly, 500,000 weekly, and 100,000 daily active users. This is double the number of monthly active users it had six months ago, the post stated.

Despite these successes, the project continues to be criticized by some privacy-advocates. On October 2, a parliamentary committee in Kenya ordered Worldcoin to stop operating in the country due to privacy concerns. The project compiled with the order, but also issued a statement claiming they had complied with all privacy laws in the country.

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