Payments firm Adyen said the rise of AI chatbots handling consumer shopping is pushing merchants to protect direct customer relationships and loyalty, with one merchant generating 70% of its volume th…
Sam Altman's OpenAI co-founded Tools for Humanity, which developed the Orb, a device that scans people's eyes to issue Proof of Humanity credentials, now available on four continents. The company aims…
Developer Nathan Langley released Orb, a self-hosted AI assistant backend that proactively messages users via an iOS companion app. The open-source server runs on Windows (macOS planned), uses Claude …
World, the biometric identity project co-founded by Sam Altman and Alex Blania, raised $52.5 million on July 24 through a sale of WLD tokens led by Pantera Capital, with investors agreeing to hold the…
World Foundation secured $52.5 million in strategic funding through a locked sale of WLD tokens, led by Pantera Capital with participation from Bain Capital Crypto and Eightco Holdings. The nonprofit …
South Park Commons portfolio companies raised over $1.5 billion in June 2026, including Baseten's $1.5B Series F at a $13B valuation for AI inference and Orb's $335M acquisition by Adyen. AXION launch…
A developer built Orb, an Android app that runs AI models locally on-device after a one-time download, enabling chat, image/document processing, speech-to-text, and text-to-speech without an internet …