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OpenAI reportedly developing AI-powered hardware lineup, starting with $200–$300 smart speaker featuring built-in camera
OpenAI is pushing into the consumer hardware space with a dedicated team of more than 200 people working on a family of AI-powered…
OpenAI’s Jony Ive-designed always-listening AI device on track for late 2026
OpenAI is accelerating toward its long-rumored entry into consumer hardware, with the company confirming it’s “on track” to unveil its…
Jony Ive’s first OpenAI device said to be ‘audio-based’
OpenAI is intensifying its focus on audio artificial intelligence technologies, consolidating teams and overhauling its voice models…
Jony Ive-designed OpenAI device aims to be always present, always sensing and listening to your life
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Apple design icon Jony Ive are collaborating on one of the most eagerly awaited AI innovations…
Apple is losing many hardware engineers to OpenAI’s Jony Ive AI device efforts
OpenAI is aggressively recruiting talent from Apple’s hardware engineering team. While Jony Ive’s design firm LoveFrom has long been…
OpenAI’s secretive AI device designed by Jony Ive beset by critical problems that could delay release
OpenAI and renowned designer Jony Ive are tackling multiple technical challenges with their secretive AI device, aiming for a major product…
OpenAI inks deal with Apple assembler Luxshare to make consumer AI device
OpenAI has partnered with China-based Apple device assembler Luxshare to develop a consumer device. The pocket-sized prototype…
Why Apple stock plummeted 18.1% in the first half of 2025
Shares of Apple fell 18.1% in the first half of 2025, as Apple’s management delayed its “Apple Intelligence” AI-powered Siri vaporware…
Steve Jobs never meant for Tim Cook to still be Apple’s CEO in 2025
Steve Jobs famously said of Tim Cook, “Tim is not a product person, per se.” That has turned out to be an understatement…
OpenAI’s device prototype designed by Jony Ive is neck-worn, ‘elegant as an iPod Shuffle’ – Ming-Chi Kuo
Jony Ive, the iconic designer behind Apple’s iPhone, has partnered with OpenAI in a $6.5 billion deal announced on May 21, 2025, to create…
OpenAI’s massive deal with Jony Ive should be a wake-up call for stultified Apple
Jony Ive re-entered the computer industry through a $6.4 billion merger between his new hardware company, io Products, Inc., and OpenAI…
Jony Ive-designed ChatGPT prototype is ‘coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen’ – Sam Altman
OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive’s startup, io Products, for $6.5 billion, appointing the former Apple design chief as creative head to develop…
OpenAI recruits former Apple designer Jony Ive to work on AI hardware in $6.5 billion deal
OpenAI has hired Jony Ive, the renowned designer of Apple’s iPhone, to spearhead a new hardware initiative for the AI company behind ChatGPT…
Jony Ive’s work on OpenAI device driven by the ‘unintended consequences’ of Apple’s iPhone
Former Apple designer Jony Ive says the work on his next product is driven by owning the “unintended consequences” associated with the iPhone…
Apple begins paying customers for their bad butterfly keyboards
Mac users are beginning to receive checks from Apple to compensate them for having to spend money when their MacBooks’ badly…
Jony Ive’s famed Apple industrial design team is now almost entirely dissolved
The Apple design group that was led by Jony Ive — one that designed Macs, iPods, iPhones, iPads, Apple Watches and more — is now…
Photos of unique Apple Watch band designed for Jony Ive revealed
Images of a unique Apple Watch band designed to celebrate former Apple design chief Jony Ive’s 50th birthday in 2017 have been posted on X…
Apple’s iPhone design chief Tan Tang to work with Jony Ive, Sam Altman on AI devices
iPhone design executive Tang Tan is set to leave Apple in February to join Ive’s LoveFrom design studio, working on an AI project with…
OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to build the ‘iPhone of artificial intelligence’
ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in discussions with former Apple designer Jony Ive to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence,” using by more…
Royal emblem for King Charles III’s coronation designed by Jony Ive
The official logo for King Charles III’s coronation, to feature in street parties, social media and souvenirs, designed by Jony Ive, has…
Apple drops Industrial Design Chief position
Apple will not be naming a new executive to replace its departing top product designer, vice president of industrial design…
Jony Ive talks life after Apple
The chief designer behind Apple’s most iconic products, Jony Ive, reveals how his design philosophy guides collaborations…
Apple Original Films lands animated short film ‘The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,’ executive produced by Jony Ive and Woody Harrelson
Apple Original Films announced today that the animated short film “The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse,” based on the…
Tim Cook, Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs discuss Steve Jobs, politics, and more
Apple CEO Tim Cook, former Apple design chief Jony Ive, and Laurene Powell Jobs participated in the 2022 Code Conference on Wednesday…
Apple ends design consulting agreement with Jony Ive
In late June 2019, Apple announced that Jony Ive, Apple’s then chief design officer, would officially depart the company as an employee…
After Steve Jobs’ death, dysfunction ran rampant within Apple’s design team
Not unsurprisingly, given Steve Jobs’ intense interest in hardware design, dysfunction ran rampant within Apple’s design team after Jobs…
Why Steve Jobs picked Tim Cook as his successor
Steve Job, who once described Tim Cook as “not a product guy,” nevertheless picked Cook as his successor for his…
Jony Ive confirms ‘LoveFrom’ continues to work for Apple in some capacity
Former Apple design guru Jony Ive has confirmed that his ‘LoveFrom’ design firm continues to work for Apple in some unknown capacity…
Apple’s product design has improved since Jony Ive departed – Alex Webb
Steve Jobs’ design-first approach to Apple product development was considered pioneering, but after Jobs, with Jony Ive in charge of design…
Pinterest co-founder Evan Sharp joins Jony Ive’s ‘LoveFrom’ design firm
Pinterest Inc said on Thursday co-founder Evan Sharp is leaving the company to join LoveFrom, a firm led by Jony Ive and Marc Newson…
‘LoveFrom’ design firm cofounded by Jony Ive and Marc Newson finally launches official website
“LoveFrom,” the design firm co-founded in 2019 by Apple’s former design chief Jony Ive and industrial designer Marc Newson, has a new website…
Former Apple designers Jony Ive and Marc Newson partner with Ferrari
Ferrari N.V. on Monday announced a long term, multi-year collaboration with Sir Jony Ive and Marc Newson at the creative collective LoveFrom…
Four Apple designers poached by Jony Ive for LoveFrom
Apple’s former design chief, Jony Ive, has collected at least four colleagues for his design firm LoveFrom since he departed in 2019…
Watch: Jony Ive delivers 2021 California College of the Arts Commencement Address
On May 10, 2021, Sir Jony Ive, former Chief Design Officer of Apple, reflected on the significance of art and design in contemporary culture…
Apple Car rumors swirl around Lucid Motors
Amid swirling rumors that electric vehicle maker Lucid Motors may end up building EVs for Apple’s Project Titan “Apple Car,” Lucid shares…
Apple CFO Luca Maestri, Jony Ive mentioned as possible Ferrari CEO candidates
Just as Italian luxury carmaker Ferrari is rolling out new hybrid models, the company is facing a fresh challenge of finding a new CEO …
Apple’s VP of Industrial Design: iPhone color palette inspired by gemstones
Design details of Apple’s new iPhone 12 family include key updates alongside a refreshing new gemstone-inspired color palette…
Airbnb hires former Apple design chief Jony Ive
Airbnb has hired former Apple design chief Jony Ive to work on showcasing the homesharing platform’s forthcoming products…
Apple’s post-Jony Ive hardware designs: Function over form
Less than ten months have passed since the renowned Jony Ive stepped down as Apple’s Chief Design Officer to start a new company – LoveFrom – that will…
Jony Ive offers advice to designers and executives
Apple’s former chief design officer Jony Ive sat down with Hermès Artistic Director Pierre-Alexis Dumas to offer advice to designers and executives…
Did Jony Ive jump or was he pushed?
Did Jony Ive jump or was he pushed? Ive accounted for a number of costly flops that would have sunk even more accomplished executives…
