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 ...

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

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 ...

Key Takeaways OpenAI grew rapidly after ChatGPT went viral in late 2022, earning $1.6 billion in 2023 and targeting $13 ...

OpenAI's Sam Altman launched the World Project in the US on May 1, 2025, aiming to revolutionize digital identity verification using eye-scanning Orbs. This initiative seeks to create a secure ...

Mike Pingel, a West Hollywood resident and journalist at the WEHO Times, left, gets an eye scan at World ... the entrepreneur known for OpenAI’s ChatGPT — the tech company says it’s ...

People took turns scanning their eyes by peering into ... Blania and Sam Altman — the entrepreneur known for OpenAI’s ChatGPT — the tech company says it's “building for humans in the ...

Learn more These days, at least one corner of the internet, if not the entire internet, seems focused on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman ... with Altman has been his eye-scanning crypto orb company.

Reddit’s bottom line could be at stake, since the company now sells its content to OpenAI for ... more speculative tech, like Sam Altman’s Tools for Humanity and its eye-scanning “proof ...

The Orb Mini looks like something between a futuristic smartphone camera and a Black Mirror prop. The device scans your iris ...