OpenAI scrubbed traces of its acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup io— due to a trademark fight with iyO, a Google X spinout also building AI devices.
— Rowan Cheung (@rowancheung) 24 juin 2025
Filings say Altman & Ive met iyO twice, though OpenAI calls the case “utterly baseless”pic.twitter.com/NKvi6DOjeF
OpenAI scrubbed traces of its acquisition of Jony Ive’s AI hardware startup io— due to a trademark fight with iyO, a Google X spinout also building AI devices. Filings say Altman & Ive met iyO twice, though OpenAI calls the case “utterly baseless”

