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Title: OpenAI Pulls Promotional Materials About Jony Ive Deal (After
Trademark Lawsuit)

Link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/06/22/22225...

OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship
between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus,
incidentally, OpenAI's $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman's device
startup io) from its website and YouTube page. [Though you can still see the
original on Archive.org.] Does that suggest something is amiss with the
acquisition, or with plans for Ive to lead design work at OpenAI? Not
exactly, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, who reports [on X.com] that
the "deal is on track and has NOT dissolved or anything of the sort."
Instead, he said a judge has issued a restraining order over the io name,
forcing the company to pull all materials that used it. Gurman elaborates on
the disappearance of the video (and other related marketing materials) in a
new article at Bloomberg: Bloomberg reported last week that a judge was
considering barring OpenAI from using the IO name due to a lawsuit recently
filed by the similarly named IYO Inc., which is also building AI devices.
"This is an utterly baseless complaint and we'll fight it vigorously," a
spokesperson for Ive said on Sunday. The video is still viewable on X.com,
notes TechCrunch. But visiting the "Sam and Jony" page on OpenAI now pulls up
a 404 error message - written in the form of a haiku: Ghost of code lingers
Blank space now invites wonder Thoughts begin to soar by o4-mini-high

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