On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that it had acquired the startup of iPhone designer Jony Ive, a big win for the company. Ive’s startup is called io, and the purchase price is nearly $6.5 billion, according to Bloomberg, which would make it OpenAI’s biggest acquisition to date. The official announcement didn’t contain much detail and mostly…
OpenAI has fully acquired Io, a joint venture it cocreated last year with Jony Ive, the famed British designer behind the sleek industrial aesthetic that defined the iPhone and more than two decades of Apple products. In a nearly 10-minute video posted to X on Wednesday, Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the Apple…
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a letter to fellow Senators on Wednesday, revealing that three major U.S. cellphone carriers did not have provisions to notify lawmakers about government surveillance requests, despite a contractual requirement to do so. In the letter, Wyden, a Democrat and longstanding member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that an investigation by…
SAVE $110.51: The Tempur-Pedic Tempur-Cloud cooling pillow (queen) is on sale at Amazon for $88.49, down from the listed MSRP at Tempur-Pedic of $199. That’s a 56% discount. Not many people know about this sleep secret, but Memorial Day is one of the best times to get an entirely new sleep set-up. It’s an ideal…
At a company-wide hackathon this month, developers at finance firm Block built a dizzying number of prototype tools including a database debugger, a program for identifying duplicated code, and an app that automates Bitcoin support. The sudden productivity boost was driven by Goose, an artificial intelligence agent developed by Block several months ago that can…
In an era where hundreds of new venture funds have emerged, only to face a narrowing market as exits prove slippery, Elizabeth Weil’s Scribble Ventures stands out as a case study in the importance of deep networks. Defying a contraction that is sidelining many newcomers, Weil just secured $80 million for Scribble’s third fund, its…
SAVE OVER $500: Until June 8, Sony is giving away TVs for free with select purchases. Learn more about how to qualify here. Memorial Day is just around the corner, which means deals are incoming. You’ll find sales on everything from laptops to clothing, but we think we’ve just found the deal of all deals….
If the Lyma Laser hasn’t already made it onto your socials, it’s only a matter of time. This much-hyped portable cold-laser device is the latest beauty tool to feature in many a celeb skin-care routine and is designed for use at home or on the go. Promising to improve wrinkles, fade scars and pigmentation, and…
Three years ago, as the pandemic caused chaos for companies big and small, Colgate-Palmolive’s chief supply chain officer Luciano Sieber orchestrated a “logistics blitz.” The result gave Sieber a better understanding of how Colgate-Palmolive moves its products around the world. But it stuck Sieber with another problem: too much data. About a year ago, Sieber…
What will be the song of the summer for 2025? Who else got ’em obsessed “like JENNIE?” Spotify has some ideas. The audio streamer has made some big calls annually about which songs will rule the hot season, and on Tuesday, Spotify announced its predictions for the 30 songs of the summer. SEE ALSO: Spotify’s…
