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OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s startup
plus, Zuckerberg’s weirdest giveaway yet

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What we’ll cover today:
🔻 Jony Ive + OpenAI = Apple’s worst nightmare
🔻 Meta’s new move: Pay startups to use Llama 🦙💸
🔻 Amazon’s AI now talks you into buying stuff 🛍️🎧
🔻 Google’s new tool makes movie trailers with AI 🎬


Source : Inc. Magazine
OpenAI just acquired io, the secret hardware startup built by ex-Apple legend Jony Ive and Sam Altman. Big design moves.
🚨 Breaking News:
OpenAI will now lead the next wave of AI hardware with Jony Ive + 55 ex-Apple designers joining full-time.
⚡Wire Simplified
• OpenAI bought io for $6.5B (in equity).
• Ive’s firm LoveFrom will lead OpenAI’s creative + hardware design.
• The goal? Build AI gadgets that go beyond screens.
• First product coming in 2026: possibly something straight out of Her.
• Apple’s stock dipped 2% after the news 👀
✔️Straight to the Point
OpenAI is going full Apple-mode, bringing Jony Ive onboard to make AI devices sexy. Watch out, iPhone.
🤖 Would you buy a hardware product made by OpenAI and Jony Ive? |
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Source : TechCrunch
Meta is launching Llama for Startups, a new program to get small AI companies hooked on its Llama models.
🚨 Breaking News:
U.S. startups can now get $6K/month, expert help, and access to Llama AI tools if they apply before May 30.
⚡Wire Simplified
• Meta wants startups to adopt Llama fast, before Google and others steal the spotlight.
• You get funding + expert help to build with Llama.
• The offer is only for U.S. startups with <$10M raised.
• Llama 4’s launch was delayed due to performance drama.
• Meta is going big: $60B–$80B AI infra spend in 2025 😵
✔️Straight to the Point
Meta’s making it rain to stay ahead in the AI race — and startups get a sweet deal in the process.
💼 If you were building an AI startup, would you apply to Meta’s Llama program? |

Source : The Daily Upside
Amazon now has AI “shopping experts” who’ll talk to you about products. Yep, shopping just got chatty.
🚨 Breaking News:
Tap “Hear the highlights” in the Amazon app to get AI-powered audio summaries for complex product pages. Kind of wild.
⚡Wire Simplified
• AI reads out product info like a podcast, pulling data from reviews and the web.
• It’s being tested for now, only on select U.S. accounts.
• Good for multitaskers, confused buyers, and the lazy among us.
• Powered by large language models (like ChatGPT’s cousins).
• Could expand to more products and customers soon.
✔️Straight to the Point
Amazon wants your next shopping spree to sound like a podcast but is it helpful or just background noise?

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chatgpt daily active users have increased >4x over the last year. messages/day by much more than that.
at the same time, the engineering team has greatly increased reliability and is now making real progress on speed.
significant scale to be doing this at; great work!
— Sam Altman (@sama)
3:08 PM • May 20, 2025
I don't know why the narrative is "AI isn't going to take your job."
Of course it is.
I'm predicting we'll see at least 4 million layoffs driven by AI over the next 24 months.
In 2022-23, tech companies laid off over 400000 employees. Google cut 12000. Meta slashed 21000.
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg)
11:36 AM • May 20, 2025
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