Jony Ive, the famed designer who joined Steve Jobs to develop Apple’s most popular products, will now curate new devices for OpenAI after his startup was acquired by Sam Altman’s firm earlier this week,

With Ive leading design, OpenAI aims to pair the tech behind its ChatGPT chatbot with product design expertise that made the iPhone a bestseller.

Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years of watching the industry try and shove AI into every form factor you can imagine, we have some guesses.

Jony Ive became renowned for a meticulous design aesthetic that shaped the cultural zeitgeist during a 27-year career at Apple, which he left in 2019. He did his most influential work after

As WWDC inches closer hints of Jony Ive's AI device leak, Google announcements challenge Apple Intelligence, and "Fortnite" is back on the iPhone, all on the AppleInsider Podcast.

Well-funded and big-name partnerships often end in failure. And ex-Apple employees don’t have a great record of success.

OpenAI is buying the AI device startup co-founded by former Apple veteran Jony Ive, joining forces with the legendary designer to make a push into hardware. The $6.5 billion-dollar deal is the largest in OpenAI's history.