Sam Altman is married! Let's take a look at what his significant other is all about.

Recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Australian software engineer Oliver Mulherin held a low-key wedding in Hawaii. This is not just gossip from the tech circle — both are deep participants in the AI field, and Ollie has worked at Meta AI headquarters, having an in-depth understanding of AI technology.

According to the photos shared on Instagram, the two appeared in simple and elegant pure white shirts and beige pants, with only 15 close friends and family invited to the wedding. Interestingly, Jeff Bezos's fiancée Lauren Sanchez and several tech entrepreneurs sent their congratulations.

Worldcoin's New Move: Breakthrough in Digital Identity Verification

After a chapter in his personal life comes to a close, Sam Altman's professional landscape is also heating up. The Worldcoin project he co-founded recently launched World ID 2.0, and this update brings several highlights:

Argentina's Verification Numbers Explode: Nearly 16,000 verifications in a single day, totaling over 500,000, accounting for over 1% of the national population. This number is quite remarkable globally—currently, the United States, Spain, Germany, and Singapore are the leading countries in terms of verification volume.

Ecosystem Integration Acceleration: World ID 2.0 has been deeply integrated with Reddit, Telegram, Shopify, Mercado Libre, and Minecraft. This means users can prove they are real people, not bots, using World ID on these platforms. For example, users holding a World ID on Reddit can gain special privileges; Shopify merchants can ensure that each user enjoys a discount only once.

Market reaction is enthusiastic: The WLD token soared from $2.3 to $4.69. On-chain data shows that a large amount of WLD was withdrawn from exchanges after the release of World ID 2.0, indicating that investors are supportive of the new direction of this project.

Why seize the digital identity track?

The logic of Worldcoin is simple: AI will create wealth but also destroy jobs. What to do? Two solutions - first, establish a reliable human verification system (to avoid the proliferation of AI-generated fake accounts); second, provide everyone with UBI (Universal Basic Income) to cope with economic shocks.

The core of World ID is biometric technology - generating a unique ID by scanning the iris through a dedicated device called “Orb”. This system has attracted 4.8 million users to complete verification.

The Three-Layer Verification System of World ID 2.0

The new version offers three security levels:

• Device Level: Suitable for daily use
• Orb Level: Medium security requirements
• Orb+ Level: High Security Scenario

Users can also manage their IDs directly on their mobile phones, including recovering lost IDs, updating expired verifications, or directly canceling them.

Insights on Web3

In the context of the fusion of AI and cryptocurrency, this move by Worldcoin actually represents a direction: identity verification infrastructure will become the core of the Web3 ecosystem. From soul-bound tokens (SBT) to AI anti-counterfeiting, digital identity will become increasingly valuable.

Worldcoin has also prepared a $5 million developer grant program (Wave 0) for ecosystem builders, encouraging third parties to build applications on its platform. This feels a bit like when iOS first opened the App Store.

Overall, this is a story about infrastructure competition. Whoever can seize the entry point of digital identity can become the “operating system” of the Web3 world.