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Ben Weiss

Worldcoin’s price seesaws as saga of former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman consumes Silicon Valley

Sam Altman speaks during a conference. (Credit: Justin Sullivan—Getty Images)

After news broke of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI, the cryptocurrency associated with his eyeball-grabbing venture, Worldcoin, seesawed with each twist and turn of the story.

On Friday, at approximately, 3 p.m. ET, the board of OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT and one of the tech industry's buzziest companies, fired Sam Altman, a Silicon Valley rock star, because he was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities," it said in a blog post.

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