Last year, Sam Altman posited that the world hadn't yet had its "humanoid robots moment" — but, he said, "it's coming." In the background, his AI company has been gearing up to make that happen. OpenAI quietly built up a humanoid robotics lab over the ...

Across two wide-ranging interviews with Forbes, Altman covered more ground than could fit in our profile. Here are his remarks on everything from vaccine research to critics who argue he backs companies to solve problems he helped create.

In a statement to The Verge, OpenAI spokesperson Kate Waters said the Pentagon had not asked for mass surveillance powers and denied that the agreement allowed for the crossing of certain lines. “The system cannot be used to collect or analyze Americans’ data in a bulk, open-ended, or generalized way,” Waters said.

(Bloomberg/Dina Bass and Shirin Ghaffary) — OpenAI is looking to bolster its US hardware supply chain and find partners for a push into consumer devices, robotics and cloud data centers, part of a major product expansion planned for the coming years.

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CEO Sam Altman claims military will not use AI product for autonomous killing systems or mass surveillance