{"id":203845,"date":"2025-10-05T20:17:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/203845\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T20:17:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T20:17:06","slug":"openai-and-jony-ive-may-be-struggling-to-figure-out-their-ai-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/203845\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Jony Ive may be struggling to figure out their AI device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI and Jony Ive face significant technical challenges as they work to develop a screen-less, AI-powered device, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/58b078be-e0ab-492f-9dbf-c2fe67298dd3\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Financial Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/21\/jony-ive-to-lead-openais-design-work-following-6-5b-acquisition-of-his-company\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI acquired io,<\/a> the device startup founded by the legendary Apple designer with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for $6.5 billion. At the time, Altman declared that Ive and his team would help the company \u201ccreate a new generation of AI-powered computers,\u201d while <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-05-21\/openai-to-buy-apple-veteran-jony-ive-s-ai-device-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal?srnd=undefined\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg reported <\/a>that the first devices to emerge from the deal were scheduled to launch in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The FT now says that OpenAI and Ive aim to create \u201ca palm-sized device without a screen that can take audio and visual cues from the physical environment and respond to users\u2019 requests.\u201d But unresolved issues around the device\u2019s \u201cpersonality,\u201d how it handles privacy, and computing infrastructure might delay the launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For example, one source told the FT that rather than waiting for a specific verbal prompt, the device would take an \u201calways on\u201d approach \u2014 but the team has reportedly struggled to ensure it only speaks up when useful and ends its conversations at the appropriate time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI and Jony Ive face significant technical challenges as they work to develop a screen-less, AI-powered device, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[60821,1283,7047,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-203845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-jony-ive","9":"tag-openai","10":"tag-sam-altman","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}