Even after an uncommonly eventful week for generative AI-centric device development, we don’t know much about what consumers really want.

Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years of watching the industry try and shove AI into every form factor you can imagine, we have some guesses.

This time at I/O, Google appeared to get the upper hand, vibe-wise, with a flurry of new models and features, a vision of a universal AI assistant, and even plans for AI-powered AR glasses. Safe to say, it’s well behind the pack no longer. But Microsoft also unleashed a raft of new AI features and agents as well at Build.

Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Investors were happy about the hefty returns they got from the sale of io to OpenAI.

The contest in Silicon Valley to dominate artificial intelligence is playing out on a new court: superstar researchers.

Netflix figured out a way to make ads even worse, The Fujifilm X Half is a tiny $850 digital camera, OpenAI buys Jony Ive’s design startup for $6.5 billion.

Google I/O highlights include 100 AI updates, with Gemini challenging ChatGPT and a 'total overhaul' of Search.

And OpenAI entered a corporate partnership with The Atlantic last year.) Read: The great AI lock-in has begun Moving into hardware could become OpenAI’s most technologically disruptive, and financially lucrative,

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Sergey Brin's return to Google in 2023 was fueled by the exciting opportunity of artificial intelligence, and he thinks other retirees should try it.

On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss all of the major announcements from Google's AI-focused I/O conference this week