{"id":1021990,"date":"2026-07-18T08:29:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021990"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:59:46","slug":"why-openai-is-selling-a-70-chatgpt-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/why-openai-is-selling-a-70-chatgpt-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Why OpenAI is selling a $70 \u2018ChatGPT basketball\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s hardware era has begun, and while we all wait for Altman to hog the stage with a smartphone designed by ex-iPhone designer Jony Ive, the ChatGPT maker has something else on sale \u2013 a basketball. This isn\u2019t your ChatGPT hallucinating. <\/p>\n<p>A day after launching a custom keyboard for developers using ChatGPT Codex, OpenAI has now listed a green basketball on its website. Altman is charging $70 (approximately Rs 6,700) for the basketball, and you get a ChatGPT logo stamped on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI\u2019s hardware era has begun, and while we all wait for Altman to hog the stage with a smartphone designed by ex-iPhone designer Jony Ive, the ChatGPT maker has something else on sale \u2013 a basketball. This isn\u2019t your ChatGPT hallucinating. A day after launching a custom keyboard for developers using ChatGPT Codex, OpenAI has now listed a green basketball on its website. Altman is charging $70 (approximately Rs 6,700) for the basketball, and you get a ChatGPT logo stamped on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022002,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021990\/revisions\/1022002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}