OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is officially launching his digital ID and cryptocurrency project, Worldcoin, in the United States. Worldcoin uses eye-scanning technology to confirm a person's identity in a system called World ID. World ID is a digital ID that uses biometric verification to confirm payments and prove a person's…

An eyeball-scanning "digital ID" developer has secured deals with several major online companies to integrate the controversial technology into their platforms. Worldcoin is the eye-ball scanning protocol co-founded by Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) company behind ChatGPT. The company has developed a tool that can…