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Tag: Sam Altman

Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI could derail the AI giant’s hardware ambitions to challenge the iPhone

Monday, July 13, 2026 9:13 am1 Comment

Apple’s aggressive lawsuit accusing OpenAI of systematically stealing its intellectual property poses a significant threat to the AI…

OpenAI’s Jony Ive-designed always-listening AI device on track for late 2026

Wednesday, January 21, 2026 8:54 am1 Comment

OpenAI is accelerating toward its long-rumored entry into consumer hardware, with the company confirming it’s “on track” to unveil its…

Elon Musk’s lawsuit over OpenAI for-profit conversion can go to trial, U.S. judge says

Thursday, January 8, 2026 9:42 am2 Comments

Billionaire visionary Elon Musk is allowed a jury trial on his allegations that ChatGPT maker OpenAI violated its founding mission…

Jony Ive-designed OpenAI device aims to be always present, always sensing and listening to your life

Thursday, December 11, 2025 9:10 am14 Comments

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

Monday, November 24, 2025 10:31 am4 Comments

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

Monday, October 6, 2025 1:33 pm6 Comments

OpenAI and renowned designer Jony Ive are tackling multiple technical challenges with their secretive AI device, aiming for a major product…

OpenAI asks court to dismiss trade-secret lawsuit from Elon Musk’s xAI

Friday, October 3, 2025 9:00 amThursday, October 2, 2025No Comments

On Thursday, OpenAI urged a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit claiming it poached employees from Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI to steal trade…

Apple, OpenAI ask U.S. judge to dismiss Elon Musk’s lawsuit over competition claims

Wednesday, October 1, 2025 3:01 pmWednesday, October 1, 2025No Comments

xAI, the AI company founded by multibillionaire Elon Musk, is seeking billions in damages, claiming that Apple’s deal with OpenAI unfairly…

OpenAI inks deal with Apple assembler Luxshare to make consumer AI device

Friday, September 19, 2025 11:01 amFriday, September 19, 2025No Comments

OpenAI has partnered with China-based Apple device assembler Luxshare to develop a consumer device. The pocket-sized prototype…

Apple CEO Tim Cook commends President Trump on his ‘leadership and focus on innovation’

Friday, September 5, 2025 12:55 pmFriday, September 5, 202518 Comments

On Thursday, President Trump hosted a meeting with leaders of major tech companies, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, in a format…

President Trump to host Apple CEO Tim Cook, other tech CEOs for first event in newly renovated Rose Garden

Thursday, September 4, 2025 9:08 amThursday, September 4, 20252 Comments

U.S. President Donald Trump will host a dinner to be attended by Apple CEO Tim Cook and over two dozen technology and business leaders…

OpenAI’s device prototype designed by Jony Ive is neck-worn, ‘elegant as an iPod Shuffle’ – Ming-Chi Kuo

Thursday, May 22, 2025 12:32 pmThursday, May 22, 202511 Comments

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

Thursday, May 22, 2025 11:01 amThursday, May 22, 20254 Comments

Jony Ive re-entered the computer industry through a $6.4 billion merger between his new hardware company, io Products, Inc., and OpenAI…

Democrat Senators Warren and Bennet demand to know why Sam Altman contributed $1 million to President Trump’s inauguration

Friday, January 17, 2025 3:06 pm4 Comments

U.S. Democrat Senators Elizabeth Warren of (Massachusetts) and Michael Bennet (Colorado) on Friday expressed concern to OpenAI CEO…

OpenAI’s huge valuation contingent on upending corporate structure

Tuesday, September 17, 2024 8:58 amMonday, September 16, 2024No Comments

OpenAI’s upcoming funding round is likely to be structured as convertible notes, Reuters reports citing sources familiar with the matter…

Apple Intelligence may add more GenAI options beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT – until they have their own

Friday, June 14, 2024 11:30 amFriday, June 14, 2024No Comments

Apple may add other chatbot options to Siri and Apple Intelligence beyond the starting partner OpenAI – think Google’s Gemini, Baidu’s…

Apple is set to crown Sam Altman’s OpenAI as King of Silicon Valley

Thursday, June 6, 2024 2:03 pmThursday, June 6, 20245 Comments

OpenAI and Apple are expected to announce a deal to put ChatGPT on Macs, iPhones, Apple Watches, iPads, and more at WWDC24…

Sam Altman tightens grip over OpenAI as he inks major deal with Apple

Thursday, May 30, 2024 2:04 pmThursday, May 30, 20245 Comments

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has consolidated his grip on power at the tech firm that briefly ousted him last fall by inking a major deal with…

Argentine President Milei to meet with Apple CEO Cook, other tech CEOs in U.S. this week

Tuesday, May 28, 2024 9:08 pm2 Comments

Argentina’s President Javier Milei is set to meet with Apple CEO Tim Cook and other top-level executives from Open AI, Google, and Meta…

Apple is just weeks away from unveiling its big AI marketing effort

Monday, May 20, 2024 12:28 pmMonday, May 20, 20244 Comments

Apple is preparing to make its big artificial-intelligence announcement via a canned video presentation at the opening of WWDC…

Apple teaming with OpenAI on chatbot to be announced at WWDC

Monday, May 20, 2024 9:12 amMonday, May 20, 20241 Comment

Apple is reportedly teaming up with OpenAI to add the startup’s chatbot technology to its products. The companies are preparing…

OpenAI unveils new ‘GPT-4o’ AI model amid increasing competition

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 6:13 pmNo Comments

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said othis week it would release a new AI model called “GPT-4o,” capable of realistic voice conversation…

Apple’s iPhone design chief Tan Tang to work with Jony Ive, Sam Altman on AI devices

Wednesday, December 27, 2023 8:54 am8 Comments

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 staff near total mutiny, threaten to follow founder Sam Altman to Microsoft

Monday, November 20, 2023 2:14 pm3 Comments

Most of OpenAI’s employees have threatened to resign and follow ousted leader Sam Altman to Microsoft Corp. unless the current board resigns…

OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to build the ‘iPhone of artificial intelligence’

Thursday, September 28, 2023 9:07 am6 Comments

ChatGPT maker OpenAI is in discussions with former Apple designer Jony Ive to build the “iPhone of artificial intelligence,” using by more…

Tech billionaires including Elon Musk think we live in a simulation of the real world

Thursday, October 6, 2016 12:03 pmThursday, October 6, 201651 Comments

Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation…

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