As OpenAI files for IPO, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning company is doing layoffs, report says(techcrunch.com)

Worldcoin's headcount problem isn't about AI hype cooling, it's that scanning eyeballs in Nairobi kiosks was never going to scale into a financial product anyone outside the crypto bubble wanted. The IPO timing makes it worse: Altman can't pitch OpenAI to public markets while a sister company keeps shipping dystopian press photos. Cut the orb, or watch the S-1 inherit its baggage.