CDC reports teen smoking and other tobacco use dropped to lowest level in 25 years

TechCrunch Sam Altman's Worldcoin becomes World, and shows new iris-scanning Orb to prove your humanity Worldcoin, the Sam Altman co-founded "proof of personhood" crypto startup that scans people's eyeballs, announced on Thursday that it dropped the "coin" from its name and is now just "World." The startup also unveiled its next generation of iris-scanning "Orb" and other tools at a live event in San Francisco. Co-founder and CEO of World, Alex Blania, said the startup's old name "just doesn't work anymore," potentially signaling the startup is looking to expand its identity beyond its original cryptocurrency mission.

Marc Benioff warns that AI, while useful, is overhyped and partly blames Microsoft One of the tech industry's biggest hype men, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, wants you to know that he is psyched about generative AI, but even he doesn't think it can do what its biggest proponents say it will do. A month after Salesforce's enormous tech conference, Dreamforce, during which Benioff endlessly pitched, pumped, and lauded AI — at least as it's used in Salesforce's own products – he's now on a setting-expectations tour. Talking about AI's potential, he said, "I've never been more excited about anything at Salesforce, maybe in my career."

Instagram rolls out new safety features to protect teens from sextortion Instagram is introducing a series of new safety features to protect users from sextortion scammers, the company announced on Thursday. Up until now, you have been able to screenshot ephemeral content in Instagram DMs (direct messages), but the other person would be notified that you saved it.