OpenAI President On Reinventing Computers
Jul 29, 2026 · 21:58
OpenAI president Greg Brockman speaks with Joanna Stern about the company's push to reinvent computing through voice interfaces, new devices, and a unified desktop app, while addressing trust concerns after a model's security breach. Voice mode aims to bring machines closer by using human-like pauses and back channels, and the desktop ChatGPT can now operate computers and take actions like managing travel. OpenAI is building a family of AI-first devices, coming 'soon' but without specifics, and denies Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, calling itself plenty innovative. The merged ChatGPT-Codex app is acknowledged as messy but a step toward a zero-tab future, with growth from 5 million to 10 million users in two weeks. Brockman defends the Hugging Face incident as a benchmark with reduced safeguards, calling it a wake-up call for cybersecurity, and insists temporary chats are honored while announcing cryptographic investments for verifiable data handling.
