Jony Ive (left) and Sam Altman Jony Ive re-entered the computer industry through a $6.4 billion merger between his new hardware company, io Products, Inc., and OpenAI. Ive will guide OpenAI on hardware design, joined by some of his ex-Apple colleagues. The move highlights the belief that advanced AI assistants could disrupt the gadget market, potentially overshadowing Apple’s current MacBooks and iPhones. Kif Leswing for CNBC: ‎ Before Jony Ive left Apple in 2019, no major Apple hardware launch was complete without a video highlighting the product’s physical design, narrated by Ive’s gentle British accent. He became a touchstone in Silicon Valley for great hardware because of his role in the creation of the iPhone and Apple Watch. On Wednesday,…

OpenAI is acquiring Jony Ive’s startup, io Products, for $6.5 billion, appointing the former Apple iPhone design chief as creative head to develop generative AI-focused ChatGPT devices. LoveFrom, Ive’s design firm post-Apple, has collaborated with OpenAI for two years on AI devices, navigating challenges like high computing demands that have tripped up startups like Humane’s AI Pin. Reuters: ‎ With Ive leading design, OpenAI aims to pair the technology behind its popular ChatGPT chatbot with the product design expertise that made devices such as the iPhone bestsellers. “The products that we’re using to deliver and connect us to unimaginable technology. They’re decades old, yeah, and so it’s just common sense to at least think surely there’s something beyond these legacy…

Will Jony Ive and Sam Altman dethrone Apple? Many think that in a battle of OpenAI vs. Apple, the iPhone maker is on borrowed time. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)

OpenAI has officially integrated its flagship GPT-4.1 model into ChatGPT, making it available to Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers starting today. The company announced the rollout on X (Twitter), highlighting the model's strengths in coding tasks and instruction following. Enterprise and Education users won't be left behind for long, with access promised "in the coming weeks," according to OpenAI. Alongside the premium-only upgrades, the company is also replacing GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini as the default model for all users, including those on free accounts. If you've enabled the ChatGPT extension for Apple Intelligence on your devices, Siri will presumably now default to GPT-4.1 mini going forward. Both models support a one million context token window (the amount of text/media…

Apple’s Xcode Apple is partnering with startup Anthropic PBC to launch a “vibe-coding” software platform, leveraging AI to streamline coding tasks. The platform, an upgraded version of Apple’s Xcode programming software, will incorporate Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet model to autonomously write, edit, and test code for developers. : ‎ Apple will roll out the software internally and hasn’t yet decided whether to launch it publicly, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the initiative hasn’t been announced. The work shows how Apple is using AI to improve its internal workflow, aiming to speed up and modernize product development. The approach is similar to one used by companies such as Windsurf and Cursor maker Anysphere, which offer advanced AI…

Apple and Google could strike a deal to bring Gemini to iPhones by mid-2025 — or so Google's CEO Sundar Pichai hopes. (via Cult of Mac - Apple news, rumors, reviews and how-tos)