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OpenAI has taken down online content related to its recent deal with Sir Jony Ive's hardware startup, io, after a trademark complaint. The artificial intelligence company has removed promotional materials including a video where Ive – the former Apple designer behind the iPhone – and OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman, discuss the 6.4bn ( 4.8bn) transaction. However, the nine-minute film can still be viewed on YouTube. OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, was forced to act after receiving a legal complaint from iyO, a startup that makes artificial intelligence-backed earbuds. OpenAI said it had taken down a page on its website announcing the company's acquisition of io, which will involve Ive's company taking on creative and design leadership across the combined businesses.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sits down with Shannon Bream to discuss the positives and potential negatives of artificial intelligence and the importance of maintaining a lead in the AI industry over China. OpenAI has just made a move that's turning heads across the tech world. The company is acquiring io, the AI device startup founded by Jony Ive, for nearly 6.5 billion. It's a collaboration between Sam Altman, who leads OpenAI, and the designer responsible for some of Apple's most iconic products, including the iPhone and Apple Watch. Together, they want to create a new generation of AI-powered devices that could completely change how we use technology.

OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two decades of Apple products. In a nearly 10-minute video posted to X on Wednesday, Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the Apple pioneer's "creative collective" will "merge with OpenAI to work more intimately with the research, engineering, and product teams in San Francisco." OpenAI says it's paying 5 billion in equity to acquire Io. The promotional video included musings on technology from both Ive and Altman, set against the golden-hour backdrop of the streets of San Francisco, but the two never share exactly what it is they're building. "We look forward to sharing our work next year," a text statement at the end of the video reads.

In the past week or so, we've had a logo upgrade, a big New York Times profile, and a Moncler outerwear collaboration from LoveFrom, Jony Ive and Marc Newson's San Francisco–headquartered design studio. The real news, though, is confirmation that LoveFrom is working with OpenAI's founder Sam Altman to build a secretive as-yet-unnamed AI device with investors including Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, and Ive himself. The former Apple chief design officer is sometimes gently mocked for his obsession with seemingly small details, but when it comes to a potential mainstream human-AI interface, the man who has spent the past five years preoccupied with buttons--going so far as to create a five-volume history of garment fasteners--could be, in a somewhat inevitable way, the exact kind of person required to walk this particular tightrope of ethics and ambition. Details so far are scarce but revealing, at least where intentions are concerned. LoveFrom is designing "a product that uses AI to create a computing experience that is less socially disruptive than the iPhone."

ChatGPT is preparing to take on Apple in a ground-breaking move to craft an'iPhone of artificial intelligence', a report has claimed. Ex-iPhone designer, Sir Jony Ive, is in'advanced talks' with OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, as the pair seek to unleash an AI-centred device to the mass market. The device, which is still in its brainstorming phases, is goaled towards a seamless integration of AI that is'more natural' for users to navigate, according to The Financial Times. It's a leap that's been compared to the revolution of Apple's first touchscreen device in 2007, but comes as many believe Tim Cook's innovation has plateaued. Billionaire Masayoshi Son, who founded the Japanese telecom giant SoftBank, is said to be in on the talks too, and has even proposed $1billion in funds.

The results may look fascinating, but what's cooler is that this comes from OpenAI's DALL-E 2, founded by Elon Musk. So in a way, credit for this Apple Car goes to Tesla's Elon Musk?! Mmm?? Designed by Dall-E 2 based on a text prompt from designer, educator, and YouTuber John Mauriello, this Apple Car is fascinating for two prime reasons – the car's design itself, but more importantly, the underlying AI technology that ended up creating the car. The genesis for this idea came from Marques Brownlee's own efforts with DALL-E 2. In a YouTube video, Brownlee demonstrated how simply typing the words "Apple Car" resulted in a car that looked like the apple fruit. This became a starting point for Mauriello, who instead, decided to tweak the prompt a little to get more specialized results. Mauriello told the AI to design a "Minimalist Sportscar inspired by a MacBook and a Magic Mouse, built out of aluminum and glass", while also specifying it to design something in the style of Apple's former design head, Jony Ive.

At a Fintech conference in New York put on by Fordham University in the spring of 2017, an AI expert made a bold prediction: Someday there would be a company with a market cap of one trillion dollars. He predicted that this valuation, which at the time seemed incredible, would be based on that firm's extensive use of AI. He was correct in at least one regard: Apple became the world's first trillion-dollar company a little over a year later. Was Apple's staggering valuation due to the power of AI? Are AI and, more broadly, data analytics, the key drivers of business growth? Apple uses data analytics and AI extensively.

Apple's chief designer Jony Ive recently talked about Apple Park, Apple's new campus in Cupertino, and, of course, the new iPhone X. Ive revealed some intriguing new info about the iPhone X, saying that it will have some new features in the future. "I've always been fascinated by these products that are more general purpose," Ive told Wallpaper. "What I think is remarkable about the iPhone X is that its functionality is so determined by software. And because of the fluid nature of software, this product is going to change and evolve. In 12 months' time, this object will be able to do things that it can't now. I think that is extraordinary. I think we will look back on it and see it as a very significant point in terms of the products we have been developing."