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Kenya is probably going to ban Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto orbs.
One of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s other companies, Worldcoin, is in hot water for giving people free crypto in exchange for scanning their eyeballs into the startup’s proprietary orb.
For example, the Kenyan government appears to be on the verge of banning Worldcoin’s operations in the country “until there is a legal framework for regulation of virtual assets,” according to Reuters.
Worldcoin doesn’t appear to be slowing down its expansion efforts, though. The last press release I got from the company said that more than 1 percent of Chile’s entire population had signed up.
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