Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Gets a New Name, and New Hardware

Worldcoin, a startup co-founded by OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman, announced a new name and introduced the latest version of its eyeball-scanning Orb at an event in San Francisco on Thursday.

The company will be called World, and will use the new Orb to provide identification services — a task that the company said will be increasingly critical as artificial intelligence-enabled deepfakes become more adept at mimicking people.

“Humanity now faces a new existential question: How will humans & AI coexist?” the company said in a statement.

World, which is led by co-founder and CEO Alex Blania, ...