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Sam Altman and Jony Ive formed a dream team to reinvent hardware. Now it’s at the center of a battle for OpenAI’s future

Betting that a new breed of tech gadgets will give it an edge over its AI rivals, the ChatGPT maker tapped Apple's former design guru last year. A legal fight with Apple is just one of the challenges now facing OpenAI in its hardware quest.

Sam Altman and Jony Ive formed a dream team to reinvent hardware. Now it’s at the center of a battle for OpenAI’s future

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Betting that a new breed of tech gadgets will give it an edge over its AI rivals, the ChatGPT maker tapped Apple's former design guru last year.

A legal fight with Apple is just one of the challenges now facing OpenAI in its hardware quest.

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Betting that a new breed of tech gadgets will give it an edge over its AI rivals, the ChatGPT maker tapped Apple's former design guru last year. A legal fight with Apple is just one of the challenges now facing OpenAI in its hardware quest.

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