5 d. ago ‘Humanity deserves better’: iPhone designer on new partnership with OpenAI

Sir Jony Ive indicates unease over impact of modern technology amid tie-up with ChatGPT developerThe designer of the iPhone has promised his next artificial intelligence-enabled device will be driven by a sense that “humanity deserves better”, after admitting feeling “responsibility” for some of the negative consequences of modern technology.Sir Jony Ive said his new partnership with OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, would renew his optimism about technology, amid widespread concerns about the impact of smartphones and social media. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘Humanity deserves better’: Jony Ive and Laurene Powell Jobs on tech’s next chapter

After Apple, the Silicon Valley visionaries are looking to artificial intelligence to shape the future again

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2 w. ago iPhone design guru and OpenAI chief promise an AI device revolution

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say mystery product created by their partnership will be the coolest thing everEverything over the last 30 years, according to Sir Jony Ive, has led to this moment: a partnership between the iPhone designer and the developer of ChatGPT.Ive has sold his hardware startup, io, to OpenAI and will take on creative and design leadership across the merged businesses. “I have a growing sense that everything I have learned over the last 30 years has led me to this place, to this moment,” he says in a video announcing the $6.4bn (£4.8bn) deal. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The man who created the iPhone could now kill it. Here’s what’s next

As Apple’s former chief designer, Jony Ive built the iPhone. But in the years since, he has left Apple and seemingly become occupied with the problems he has caused: in a recent interview, he said that there was “not anything that I can be more preoccupied or bothered by” than the problems caused by smartphones.

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2 w. ago iPhone designer Jony Ive teams up with ChatGPT creator OpenAI to make the device of the future

New company will look to build ‘a new family of products’, team announces

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2 w. ago OpenAI recruits legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive to work on AI hardware in $6.5B deal

OpenAI has recruited Jony Ive, the designer behind Apple’s iPhone, to lead a new hardware project for the artificial intelligence company that makes ChatGPT

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3 w. ago Apple is working on a bizarre CURVED iPhone design to mark 20 years since its first ever handset, report claims

The tech giant is preparing a radical new design for one of its upcoming handsets, according to Apple tipster Mark Gurman.

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