The startup Tools for Humanity is bringing eyeball-scanning devices called Orbs to six U.S. cities this week. Tools for Humanity offers cryptocurrency payments in exchange for eye scans through the ...

Usually when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in the news, it’s for the tumultuous effects his company’s tech — like ChatGPT and DALL-E — are having on society and the job market. Not so much this week.

Well, looking to Northern California, there's a new craze in Silicon Valley - silver orbs that scan your eyeballs. The company behind it says it is designed to distinguish humans from bots as AI grows ...

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Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning startup has not only tried to convince the world to stare into a metallic orb, it has also pushed employees into behavior that critics say feels more like devotion than ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people around the world lined up to have their eyeballs scanned by a tech startup that says it wants to authenticate humans in the age of AI. The latest craze in Silicon Valley? Silver ...