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Here is what we have Today:

• 👁️ Orbs, IDs, and Blockchains: Can 'World' Win the Human Race?

• 📝 AI note-taking revolution: Google's new tricks

• 🔍 AI search gets personal: Your company's new crystal ball?

• 💼 New Job Opportunities

SAM ALTMAN

👁️ World's Audacious Plan to Verify Humanity

Sam Altman's cryptocurrency project, Worldcoin rebranded to 'World' and unveiled new technology, including an upgraded iris-scanning Orb and enhanced identity verification systems with an ambitious plans to scale its network to 1 billion humans — hinting at a possible expansion beyond its original cryptocurrency mission.

What's new with the Orb?

Orb, which is easier to mass produce and captures biometric data, at scale, three times quicker, which he believes people will soon be using to verify themselves, in coffee shops.

• Next-gen Orb boasts 5x performance improvement

• Self-serve and on-demand Orbs introduced for easier onboarding

• Expansion planned to new countries

How is identity verification changing?

• World ID 3.0 protocol launched

• New World ID Credentials introduced

• Deep Face technology to combat AI-generated deepfakes

• Enhanced privacy infrastructure

What about the app and blockchain?

• World App 3.0 allows anonymous integration with third-party apps

• Worldchain blockchain mainnet launched

What's the goal?

• Scaling the network to verify 1 billion humans

• Distinguishing between humans and AI in the digital world

Why is this controversial?

• Previous launch faced backlash and bans in some countries

• Ongoing privacy concerns surrounding iris-scanning technology

Why does this matter?

• Growing need to verify human identity amid AI-generated content

• Potential to revolutionize digital identity verification

• Implications for online security and privacy

What's the end game?

• Establishing a global standard for human verification

• Balancing privacy concerns with identity verification needs

This ambitious relaunch aims to address the pressing need for human verification in an AI-dominated world, but World must navigate significant challenges to achieve widespread adoption.

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• Google just pushed an update for its viral AI note-taking assistant NotebookLM, adding new features that let users guide AI-generated audio summaries, customize the AI podcast Audio Overviews feature and announcing the upcoming launch of a new business-focused version.

• Abel, a police AI startup that uses artificial intelligence to streamline police report process by leveraging body cam footage and dispatch data, had raised $5 million in a seed round led by Day One Ventures, with additional support from Long Journey Ventures and Y Combinator's summer 2024 cohort.

• Elon Musk-owned social media platform, X (formerly known as Twitter), updated its Privacy Policy to indicate that it would allow third-party “collaborators” to train their AI models on X data, unless users opt out.

• Perplexity, AI-powered search platform will now be able to fuse together internal business data and information from the web to answer questions that are more specific to your firm’s needs — startup described it was its enterprise clients’ most-requested feature.

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