What to Expect (and Not Expect) From OpenAI and Jony Ive's AI-Centric 'Screenless Phone'

AI is coming for your phones -- this you know by now and maybe you've already experienced it for yourself in the form of Apple Intelligence or Google's Gemini. But OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT and perhaps the biggest name in AI software and services right now, is making a different bet. It's looking beyond the traditional smartphone and thinking about how AI might reinvent our devices altogether. On Wednesday, the company announced that it had bought Jony Ive's device startup IO for $6.5 billion. Together, Ive and Altman are building something new -- a device unlike anything we've owned before, with AI at its core. "It became clear that our ambitions to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products demanded an entirely new company," the pair said in a statement about their working relationship. "The IO team, focused on developing products that inspire, empower and enable, will now merge with OpenAI to work more intimately with the research, engineering and product teams in ... Read full article.