OpenAI seems to have pulled a much-discussed video selling the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, by the way, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to accumulate Ive and Altman’s gadget startup io) from its website and YouTube web page.
Does that counsel one thing is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to guide design work at OpenAI? Not precisely, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who stories that the “deal is on observe and has NOT dissolved or something of the kind.” As a substitute, he stated a choose has issued a restraining order over the io identify, forcing the corporate to drag all supplies that used it.
And certainly, an earlier report at Bloomberg Regulation famous that AI gadget maker IYO has brought a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI, with the choose suggesting she’s open to IYO’s argument that OpenAI’s promotional video may already be creating client confusion.
TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for remark. For now, no less than, the video stays viewable on X.