Worldcoin, the bizarre eyeball-scanning cryptocurrency token co-founded by OpenAI boss Sam Altman, made its debut on Monday with a pledge to serve as a “privacy-preserving” global financial system.

For Worldcoin, the project that scans people’s irises in order to give them a digital identity and crypto tokens, the race to gather as many users as possible has been marked by increasing regulatory ...

“The government is concerned by the ongoing activities of an organization calling itself ‘WORLDCOIN,” which is involved in the registration of citizens through collection of eyeball/iris data,” the ...

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project has come under assault by authorities over its mission to scan the eyeballs of every person on Earth, in order to distinguish humans from artificial intelligence.

Silicon Valley has a new shiny toy. It's a silver orb outfitted with eyeball-scanning cameras intended to distinguish humans from machines in the era of ever-developing artificial intelligence. In an ...