World ID allows individuals to verify their ‘humanity’ through iris scanning via the company’s Orb device or simpler methods. In a world where it gets increasingly difficult to differentiate between ...

At a trendy venue near the San Francisco pier, Sam Altman’s verification project World celebrated its next evolution and rapid expansion of its ambitions. And it’s starting with Tinder. Tools for ...

Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, humanity-verifying World project announced at an event in San Francisco on Friday that Tinder users around the globe can now put a digital badge on their profiles signaling ...

World, the Sam Altman-backed digital identity project, has unveiled on Friday what it calls its most significant upgrade yet to World ID, positioning the system as “full-stack proof of human” ...

Formation Bio CEO Ben Liu is convinced that drug discovery isn’t the bottleneck in getting medicines to market—it’s going through clinical trials. Now he’s raised some $615 million from top investors ...

Discover notable new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The veteran journalist Katrina Manson, who now covers defense tech for Bloomberg, spent much of the past few years asking precisely that question.

In the fall of 2023, Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI’s chief scientist, sent secret memos to three fellow-members of the organization’s board of directors. For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions ...

Altman talked to Laurie Segall, CEO of Mostly Human, about his takeaways from the Pentagon deal. Altman said he had "miscalibrated" the mood of distrust toward AI and the government. Altman said that ...

If you’ve been thinking about joining Sam’s Club, you may want to act fast: The annual membership fee will go up $10 starting next month. The Walmart-owned chain of warehouse stores has been emailing ...

Walmart-owned Sam's Club is increasing its membership prices in May, as the warehouse store company prepares to expand its footprint across the United States this year. In an emailed statement to USA ...

Throughout his career, the fan-favorite artist touched DC and Marvel characters and made his own work like 'The Maxx' and 'Zero Girl.' Reading time 3 minutes Sam Kieth, the artist who helped Neil ...

Kieth would help introduce one of the most acclaimed comics in the industry when he co-created Sandman with Neil Gaiman, and Kieth would pencil the first five issues of the series. Sandman would go on ...