In a world where there actually is a demand for a product or a service that lets you sort of verify that the person you're talking to. right now, we don't have very many good ways to do that. And I think it's important that a government that is hopefully accountable to its citizens in some sort of democratic way is the entity that is overseeing all of that.
On Sunday night, a crane arrived in downtown San Francisco to take down the Twitter sign from the company’s office building. The crane’s arrival marked the death of Twitter, the brand, and the start of X, Elon Musk’s everything app. Today, why Elon’s acquisition feels more and more like cultural vandalism and what, if anything, will replace the global town square.
Then, is Sam Altman’s universal basic income cryptocurrency app Worldcoin an iris scanning tool to save humanity, or just another attempt to get rich on crypto?
Plus: a trip to Google’s robotics lab, where artificial intelligence models are creating breakthroughs.
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