
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.