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Title: Jony Ive's OpenAI Device Gets the Laurene Powell Jobs Nod of Approval

Link: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/06/02/213...

Laurene Powell Jobs has publicly endorsed the secretive AI hardware device
being developed by Jony Ive and OpenAI, expressing admiration for his design
process and investing in his ventures. Ive says the project is an attempt to
address the unintended harms of past tech like the iPhone, and Powell Jobs
stands to benefit financially if the device succeeds. The Verge reports: In a
new interview published by The Financial Times, the two reminisce about Jony
Ive's time working at Apple alongside Powell Jobs' late husband, Steve, and
trying to make up for the "unintentional" harms associated with those
efforts. [...] Powell Jobs, who has remained close friends with Ive since
Steve Jobs passed in 2011, echoes his concerns, saying that "there are dark
uses for certain types of technology," even if it "wasn't designed to have
that result." Powell Jobs has invested in both Ive's LoveFrom design and io
hardware startups following his departure from Apple. Ive notes that "there
wouldn't be LoveFrom" if not for her involvement. Ive's io company is being
purchased by OpenAI for almost $6.5 billion, and with her investment, Powell
Jobs stands to gain if the secretive gadget proves anywhere near as
successful as the iPhone. The pair gives away no extra details about the
device that Ive is building with OpenAI, but Powell Jobs is expecting big
things. She says she has watched "in real time how ideas go from a thought to
some words, to some drawings, to some stories, and then to prototypes, and
then a different type of prototype," Powell Jobs said. "And then something
that you think: I can't imagine that getting any better. Then seeing the next
version, which is even better. Just watching something brand new be
manifested, it's a wondrous thing to behold."

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