Kurt “CyberGuy" Knutsson reports World ID's iris scanning tech launches in six U.S. cities to verify identity, fight AI bots.

If you follow the tech industry, the name Sam Altman will surely sound familiar. He’s the CEO of OpenAI, the world’s leading AI-focused company and parent of ChatGPT. While OpenAI is quite ...

World is the controversial biometric and financial tech ... and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in 2019. Austinites can step up to one of World's Orbs, which takes photographs of a person's eye, to obtain ...

The Orb takes your biometrics and converts the data into a unique 12,800 digit “iris code” which can be used as an ...

World made its official U.S. debut, allowing people to scan their eyes in Los Angeles, San Francsico, Austin, Atlanta Nashville and Miami, to verify they're human. As AI makes it tougher to tell who ...

Over the past few years, what sounds like an episode of Black Mirror has been unfolding in real life: millions of people around the world have agreed to let metallic orbs scan their eyes in exchange ...

Altman and Alex Blania, a German physics researcher and World CEO, also unveiled a new smaller, eye ... tech experts around the world. In March 2024, Spain temporarily banned World from scanning ...

The event was hosted by World, a San Francisco start-up co-founded by Sam Altman of OpenAI that has come up with one of the more ambitious (or creepy, depending on your view) tech projects in ...

World, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning technology ... If you follow the tech industry, the name Sam Altman will surely sound familiar. He’s the CEO of OpenAI, the world’s leading AI-focused ...