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Start free trial →Halftime Report · September 2026
Kate Rooney asked about public perception of Altman, citing an SNL Weekend Update segment and an upcoming movie about him. He accepts the scrutiny and shrugs off the mockery.
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we're saying. Okay.
Well, what is the plan in hardware? And does it put more pressure to have an even better product if Mark Zuckerberg seems to have kind of gotten out of the gates first, even though maybe some of their stuff is still in the works? I am not worried about being first with new hardware. New hardware is very hard to do. Like new computing form factors come along very rarely. And the quality bar that we want to hit for something that you will love and really be a key part of the way you interface with AI, that's going to take a while and we're going to do that at a high level of quality. I also want to ask about the perception. We were just talking about the SNL weekend update. There is obviously a movie about you. I don't know if you've seen the trailer. There's some issues in terms of public perception. And just this thought that maybe you, maybe Dario Amade as leaders, don't have the best reputation right now. I mean, I think everyone doing something this important to society deserves great scrutiny. I did see the movie trailer. I mean, it looks like an awful movie, but I appreciate people's creativity and I really do support that. So I hope they have a fun…
go in a second, but Greg Brockman, one of your co-founders, is in Washington, D.C. today.
You were there at
the state dinner last night. What is your expectation of what's possible in DC and what have the conversations looked like behind the scenes, especially on international