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 acquire Ive and Altman’s device 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 reviews that the “deal is on monitor and has NOT dissolved or something of the kind.” As an alternative, he stated a decide has issued a restraining order over the io identify, forcing the corporate to tug all supplies that used it.
And certainly, an earlier report at Bloomberg Legislation famous that AI gadget maker IYO has brought a trademark lawsuit against OpenAI, with the decide suggesting she’s open to IYO’s argument that OpenAI’s promotional video would possibly already be creating shopper confusion.
TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for remark. For now, at the least, the video stays viewable on X.