You May Laugh When You Hear What OpenAI's Top Secret AI Gadget Allegedly Looks Like

OpenAI's new partnership with famed iPhone designer Jony Ive has the rumor mill churning — and the latest may give you a guffaw. According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Ive and Altman's secretive AI companion device — news of which leaked to the Wall Street Journal last week — may look a lot like an iPod shuffle, but worn on a string around your neck, like a preposterous AI-inflected statement necklace. "The current prototype is slightly larger than [Humane's] AI Pin, with a form factor as compact and elegant as an iPod Shuffle," Kuo said in a lengthy X post shortly after OpenAI announced that it was purchasing io, Ive's hardware company. "The design and specifications may change before mass production." Per the analyst's research, "one of the intended use cases is wearing the device around the neck," and although it won't have any screens, it may "have cameras and microphones for environmental detection," which could well jibe with Altman's claim in the employee call announ ... Read full article.