{"id":933214,"date":"2025-05-23T08:28:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T02:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=933214"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:45:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T03:15:59","slug":"openai-acquires-former-apple-design-chief-jony-ives-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/23\/openai-acquires-former-apple-design-chief-jony-ives-startup-in-6-5-billion-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI acquires former Apple design chief Jony Ive\u2019s startup in $6.5 billion deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a touch of the late Steve Jobs in OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has acquired former Apple design chief Jony Ive\u2019s secretive hardware startup, io, for $6.5 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs earlier backed io through her firm, the Emerson Collective. Steve, the co-founder of Apple, used to call Ive his \u201cspiritual partner\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is now a touch of the late Steve Jobs in OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has acquired former Apple design chief Jony Ive\u2019s secretive hardware startup, io, for $6.5 billion. Billionaire philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs earlier backed io through her firm, the Emerson Collective. Steve, the co-founder of Apple, used to call Ive his \u201cspiritual partner\u201d.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933214","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=933214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}