{"id":941632,"date":"2025-06-26T11:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=941632"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T05:51:23","slug":"worst-email-ive-ever-received-jason-rugolo-founder-of-hardware-startup-suing-chatgpt-maker-openai-hits-back-at-ceo-sam-altman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/26\/worst-email-ive-ever-received-jason-rugolo-founder-of-hardware-startup-suing-chatgpt-maker-openai-hits-back-at-ceo-sam-altman\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Worst email I&#8217;ve ever received\u2019: Jason Rugolo, founder of hardware startup suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI hits back at CEO Sam Altman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Rugolo, founder of hardware startup Iyo, has responded sharply to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman amid an ongoing trademark lawsuit over the name \u201cio.\u201d Rugolo accused Altman of acting in bad faith after OpenAI announced a hardware venture with Apple\u2019s former chief designer Jony Ive, using a name similar to Rugolo\u2019s company. He goes on to say that the reply he received from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was \u201cthe worst email I\u2019ve ever received in my professional life.\u201d The comment comes as the two are locked in a legal fight over OpenAI\u2019s use of the name \u201cio\u201d for its AI hardware project with Apple\u2019s former design head Jony Ive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason Rugolo, founder of hardware startup Iyo, has responded sharply to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman amid an ongoing trademark lawsuit over the name \u201cio.\u201d Rugolo accused Altman of acting in bad faith after OpenAI announced a hardware venture with Apple\u2019s former chief designer Jony Ive, using a name similar to Rugolo\u2019s company. He goes on to say that the reply he received from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was \u201cthe worst email I\u2019ve ever received in my professional life.\u201d The comment comes as the two are locked in a legal fight over OpenAI\u2019s use of the name \u201cio\u201d for its AI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-941632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941632","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}