Killing the smartphone ain’t easy business; just ask Sam Altman and Jony Ive. In May, the OpenAI CEO and former Apple chief designer announced that they would be making a real, tangible gadget you can eventually hold with your (presumably) real, non-chatbot hands—and not just any gadget. As part of a new company called IO, […]
Jony Ive and Sam Altman, Sitting in a Tree, ‘K-I-L-L-I-N-G’ the Smartphone
OpenAI declared it will put up an astronomical $6.5 billion to merge with Jony Ive and his secretive AI device design company. Ive, who helped bring us legendary products like the iMac and iPhone, will lead the makers of ChatGPT not just in making a better chatbot but in creating a product that “reimagines” a […]
Jony Ive Can’t Save Us From the iPhone Addiction He Helped Create
The legendary former Apple designer Jony Ive has a few regrets. The man helped bring us the iPhone, which in turn was the advent of the smartphone and social media revolution. Now Ive is working with OpenAI—the company that sparked today’s AI fixation—to design some kind of AI-centric hardware that he says will help him […]