During the store event, a man waiting outside told me that he had made an appointment at 11:30, but pointed out that he was an hour earlier and had not been allowed to enter. He visited from Poland and said his boss had attended the party the night before and was “super hype” about the Orb concept. “I don’t know if this will be like a global revolution, but I just want to be in the wave,” he said.
“My only hesitation is that they are super huge,” he added. “I’m scared that they can actually do something we don’t know. It may be a little dark, but all in all, most of the business and most of the events we attend have some kind of shameful aspect.”
Back in the store, global chief business officer Trevor Traina began the press conference. He called the world ” [OpenAI CEO] Sam Altman and [World CEO] Alex Blania” and waxed to expand into the United States and its former role as a U.S. diplomat.
“From the same incredible brain, Sam Altman’s brain, after introducing the age of artificial intelligence, the intuition is that in this new era, we as humans will need to know what is real and what is not real, and we may actually have to prove our humanity,” Traina said.
After he raised questions about data privacy and technical glitches (which is what Traina calls Orb’s “stage fear”), I asked why the company’s services were not available in New York, and my colleagues and I noticed the company’s services under the beautiful printing of the announcement. “We launched last night,” he claimed. The World Communications team later corrected him: While New Yorkers can download the app, they can’t actually use it there yet.
