Well-funded and big-name partnerships often end in failure. And ex-Apple employees don’t have a great record of success.

Over 140 groups have signed a letter opposing a new provision that would ban AI regulation at the state and local level.

And OpenAI entered a corporate partnership with The Atlantic last year.) Read: The great AI lock-in has begun Moving into hardware could become OpenAI’s most technologically disruptive, and financially lucrative,

Jony Ive, the famed designer who joined Steve Jobs to develop Apple’s most popular products, will now curate new devices for OpenAI after his startup was acquired by Sam Altman’s firm earlier this week,

OpenAI forms a new hardware division with the io team, led by Jony Ive, to develop AI-native devices, possibly launching a voice-first product as early as 2026.