Rabbit Teases Redesigned R1 UI After Design God Jony Ive Dumps on AI Gadgets

By now, everyone on Earth is aware that ex-Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman have the biggest bromance going on, and they couldn’t keep the secret to themselves anymore. Nobody outside of OpenAI and io, Jony’s AI startup that the ChatGPT maker acquired for $6.5 billion, really knows what their AI device (or family of AI-powered devices) looks like or how it works. We have guesses and hints from people supposedly in the know, but nothing concrete has surfaced. What we’re certain of is that Ive thinks the current batch of AI gadgets—Humane’s now-dead Ai Pin and Rabbit’s R1—are “very poor products.” Sir Alu-mini-um Ive might be right, or maybe he’ll eat his words. Despite watching Humane stumble over and over, and then eventually sell its IP to HP, Rabbit has (for now) seemingly defied death with consistent feature additions and software improvements to the brightly colored R1. The startup’s been pushing out update after update since the R1 launched in April 2 ... Read full article.