Worldcoin Eyes OpenAI Partnership Despite Regulatory Setbacks (1)

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 scrutiny and data privacy concerns. These setbacks, which included investigators raiding six of what the startup described as “orb verification locations” in Hong Kong, don’t appear to have curtailed its ambitions. The group is now aiming to team up with some of the biggest names in tech — including OpenAI.

Tools for Humanity, the company behind Worldcoin, has faced probes in Germany and Argentina and a ban in Kenya. Most recently, regulators in Spain and ...