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The bowling ball-shaped devices, which scan the iris of the eye for identification, will first appear in six “key innovation centers”: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville and San Francisco. By the end of the year, the plan is to install “enough Orbs” across the U.S. so that “180 million Americans can use the tool.” Users who dare to submit their eyes for identification receive access to the World App and WLD tokens.  In addition to the geographic expansion, Sam Altman and the Tools for Humanity team unveiled a number of new features and announced partnerships. Among them: Making cryptocurrency-backed loans available to World App users through the Morpho protocol; access to prediction markets through Kalshi; the ability to spend tokens using a new Visa debit card linked to World; integration of identity verification technology into some online dating apps, including Tinder in Japan. “World Card will connect directly to the World App wallet, allowing digital assets to be spent anywhere Visa is accepted. Merchants will be able to seamlessly receive fiat currency without having to understand cryptocurrencies, and individuals will have the flexibility to use their digital assets,” the company said in a statement.  Altman noted that the idea for World predates OpenAI. “We needed some way to authenticate people in the [AI] era. You need to know what content is created by humans and what content is created by artificial intelligence. We wanted to find a way to make sure that humans remain special and central in a world where there is a lot of content on the internet created by artificial intelligence,” said OpenAI’s CEO. Tools for Humanity said it is building a factory in Richardson, Texas, to produce the “orbs.” After the first wave of distribution, other major cities, including Seattle, Orlando, San Diego and Las…

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