Campus, a college startup backed by Sam Altman, has hired Meta‘s former AI Vice President Jerome Pesenti as its technology head, the company announced Friday. As part of the deal, Campus will buy Pesenti’s artificial intelligence learning platform Sizzle AI for an undisclosed amount and integrate its personalized AI-generated educational content already used by 1.7 million people. The acquisition advances …
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KEY TAKEAWAYS Dan Ives, the high-profile tech analyst at Wedbush Securities, is joining Eightco, which is planning to accumulate Worldcoin, the cryptocurrency co-founded by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Eightco said it is raising around $250 million from a private placement “to implement the first-of-its-kind Worldcoin treasury strategy.” Eightco has also raised funds from BitMine, the ether accumulator helmed by Fundstrat’s Tom …
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Daniel Ives, Wedbush Securities Scott Mlyn | CNBC Wedbush Securities’ Dan Ives is joining a new company focused on accumulating Worldcoin (WLD), the native token of the blockchain used in Open AI creator Sam Altman’s biometric identity verification startup, World. Eightco Holdings, a tiny company that currently trades on the Nasdaq under the ticker “OCTO,” announced Monday that Ives, Wedbush’s …
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