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Jony Ive, the designer whose hardware studio is at the center of Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI

Apple just sued its own most famous ex-designer's company — and the complaint reads like a heist movie

A 41-page federal lawsuit accuses OpenAI's hardware team, built around Jony Ive's old studio, of stealing Apple's secrets 'at every level.'

Lena Fischer · 6d ago · 7 min

Jony Ive, former Apple chief design officer, now working with OpenAI on its first hardware device

openai just priced its jony ive speaker at $400 — and it still won't have a screen

Bloomberg's sourcing puts OpenAI's first hardware product at $300–$400 for a 2027 launch: a donut-shaped speaker with moving parts, no display, and Sam Altman calling it 'the coolest piece of technology the world will have ever seen.'

Lena Fischer · 6d ago · 6 min

Nvidia Tesla V100 data-center GPU accelerator card

Hardware

someone bolted a $266 Nvidia server GPU to their gaming PC. it's loud as a lawnmower — and it works

A used Tesla V100 and a $50 adapter got one builder to 32GB of VRAM for $266 total — here's the honest math on whether you should copy them.

Ravi Malhotra · Jul 31 · 7 min