{"id":990263,"date":"2026-02-06T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=990263"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:08:23","slug":"meet-jony-ive-designer-of-iconic-iphone-ipad-and-airpods-now-building-a-new-ai-product-with-sam-altmans-openai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/06\/meet-jony-ive-designer-of-iconic-iphone-ipad-and-airpods-now-building-a-new-ai-product-with-sam-altmans-openai\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Jony Ive: Designer of iconic iPhone, iPad, and AirPods now building a new AI product with Sam Altman\u2019s OpenAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is making a major push into hardware, teaming up with one of Apple\u2019s most renowned design figures. The AI powerhouse recently acquired io, a stealthy startup created by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, alongside fellow ex-Apple executives Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan. It is valued at approximately $6.5 billion, with the initial hardware products anticipated to launch in 2026. <\/p>\n<p>In a video shared on OpenAI\u2019s social media, Altman mentioned that he and Ive began discussions two years ago about the future of computing and emerging technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OpenAI is making a major push into hardware, teaming up with one of Apple\u2019s most renowned design figures. The AI powerhouse recently acquired io, a stealthy startup created by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, alongside fellow ex-Apple executives Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan. It is valued at approximately $6.5 billion, with the initial hardware products anticipated to launch in 2026. In a video shared on OpenAI\u2019s social media, Altman mentioned that he and Ive began discussions two years ago about the future of computing and emerging technologies.<\/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-990263","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\/990263","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=990263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}