World, the iris-scanning identity venture co-founded by Sam Altman, presented its first sector package at Money20/20 in Las Vegas on October 18: a banking-and-finance edition of World ID. It uses cryptographic proofs so a financial institution can verify a person, not an automated system. AI fraud is the backdrop; the missing pieces are a confirmed … Read more
The long-promised shift from assistants that answer questions to agents that keep working after you close the laptop arrived on September 29, 2026, when OpenAI used its San Francisco DevDay to unveil Dots. Each dot is a persistent agent running on its own cloud computer, and the first one is included at no extra charge … Read more
David Robinson, the OpenAI staffer who led transparency work inside the company’s safety team and helped write the safety reports published alongside each major model launch, has resigned after three and a half years — and he is not going quietly. In an essay for The Atlantic, Robinson argues that OpenAI’s culture is broken, that … Read more