{"id":78606,"date":"2025-05-24T14:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/openai-goes-all-in-with-jony-ive-as-google-plays-ai-catchup\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T14:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T14:46:41","slug":"openai-goes-all-in-with-jony-ive-as-google-plays-ai-catchup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/openai-goes-all-in-with-jony-ive-as-google-plays-ai-catchup\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI goes all in with Jony Ive as Google plays AI catchup"},"content":{"rendered":"

OpenAI just made its biggest acquisition yet (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/21\/jony-ive-to-lead-openais-design-work-following-6-5b-acquisition-of-his-company\/<\/a>) , scooping up Jony Ive and Sam Altman\u2019s secretive device startup, io, in a $6.5 billion all-equity deal. Ive, the legendary designer behind the iPhone and other iconic Apple products, will now lead creative and design work at OpenAI through his firm LoveFrom. The goal? To take AI \u201cbeyond the screen\u201d and build a new generation of AI-powered consumer devices.<\/p>\n

Beyond the tech, there\u2019s a clear narrative play here. OpenAI is framing Altman as the Jobs-esque visionary and Ive as the design genius who makes it all real. Social media had a field day with the staged buddy shots of the duo, but the messaging is hard to miss: Take the iPhone launch, and make it AI.<\/p>\n

Today, on TechCrunch\u2019s Equity (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff, and Anthony Ha unpack the deal, dive into AI wearables, and discuss more of this week\u2019s tech headlines.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full episode to hear about:<\/p>\n

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Max\u2019s inside scoop from Google I\/O (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/20\/google-i-o-2025-everything-announced-at-this-years-developer-conference\/<\/a>) : the return of Google Glass (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/20\/googles-sergey-brin-i-made-a-lot-of-mistakes-with-google-glass\/<\/a>) and developers\u2019 reactions to Google\u2019s AI-powered search upgrades<\/p>\n

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Luminar drama (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/21\/luminar-secures-up-to-200m-following-ceo-departure-and-layoffs\/<\/a>) from layoffs to CEO step downs and the lidar startup\u2019s potential $200 million fundraising effort<\/p>\n

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23andMe (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/19\/pharma-giant-regeneron-to-buy-23andme-and-its-customers-data-for-256m\/<\/a>) \u2019s second life, and what the company\u2019s new buyer plans to do with users\u2019 DNA data<\/p>\n

Equity will be back next week, so don\u2019t miss it!<\/p>\n

Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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OpenAI just made its biggest acquisition yet (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/05\/21\/jony-ive-to-lead-openais-design-work-following-6-5b-acquisition-of-his-company\/) , scooping up Jony Ive and Sam Altman\u2019s secretive<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}