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Jony Ive
Named in AI Lately's reporting below.
In the archive
Capital & Markets
The Year of the Acqui-Hire
OpenAI, Google, Meta, Nvidia and Cognition spent a combined tens of billions in 2025 and 2026 buying companies mainly to secure the specific people running them, a pattern regulators are only beginning to name.
Consumer AI
Consumer AI at Scale
ChatGPT crossed 900 million weekly users and started running ads while Apple ceded Siri's rebuild to a rival's model, showing three different theories of who owns the AI relationship once assistants graduate from answering into deciding.
Consumer AI
OpenAI Pushes Its First Device to 2027
OpenAI told a federal court its device ships at the earliest in February 2027, nine months after the company called a 2026 unveiling 'on track.'