Worldcoin (WLD) slid roughly 8% over the past 24 hours, trading near $0.37 even as OpenAI — the AI lab that shares Worldcoin co-founder Sam Altman — secured US government approval to broadly release its GPT-5.6 model. The wider rollout is scheduled for Thursday, July 8, after additional testing and closed-door government meetings. The Commerce Department clearance lifts earlier access limits imposed at the government's request. Traders frequently treat Altman-linked assets as a sentiment proxy, yet the token decoupled from the positive AI headline and tracked a broader risk-off move. The rollout news landed the same week OpenAI lost another senior safety voice. Chief futurist Joshua Achiam confirmed he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years. The mission alignment team he once led was dissolved in February. Former White House AI adviser Dean Ball has stepped in this week as head of strategic futures. Altman has floated granting the US government a 5% equity stake in OpenAI, an idea he reportedly raised with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. President Trump has signaled openness. That warming relationship helped clear the GPT-5.6 restrictions. The Achiam exit fits a longer pattern of safety-focused departures, including Jan Leike, Miles Brundage, Steven Adler, and Andrea Vallone. The steady outflow of internal guardrail talent shapes the risk narrative around every Altman-associated asset.