How OpenAI's $6.5 billion-dollar bet on Jony Ive just got riskier

Name: How OpenAI's $6.5 billion-dollar bet on Jony Ive just got riskier
Uploaded: 2026-07-27
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Description: OpenAI's Sam Altman is teaming up with Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind Apple's products, to build hardware for ChatGPT. But before any products have even been released, a scorched-earth lawsuit from Apple could derail the plans. Fortune senior reporter Emily Forlini explains how the new feud could hold up production.

July 27, 2026 00:00 AM UTC
- Updated 2 hours ago

OpenAI's Sam Altman is teaming up with Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind Apple's products, to build hardware for ChatGPT. But before any products have even been released, a scorched-earth lawsuit from Apple could derail the plans. Fortune senior reporter Emily Forlini explains how the new feud could hold up production.