Jony Ive (Center) and Laurene Powell Jobs (right) in 2022 – Image credit: Recode
As the startup AI of Jony Ive is bought by Openai, him and the investor Jobs Laurene Powell Talk about collaboration and how technology has damaged the company and took advantage of it.
The startup of Jony Ive and Sam Altman “Io” was bought May 2025 by Altman’s Openai Company and works on a New IA device. Before being bought, Laurene Powell Jobs invested in “IO”, and in a new Financial time interview with bothIve reveals that she was crucial for her post-paapple work, in particular by forming his LOVEFROM company.
“If it was not for Laurene,” said Jony IVE“There would be no love.”
In addition to talking about how they met for the first time in the 1990s in Powell Jobs and Steve JobsThe house of the house, the two also explained how technology was not always a force for good.
“We now know, without ambiguity, that there are dark uses for certain types of technology,” said Powell Jobs. “You can only look at the studies carried out on adolescent girls and on anxiety among young people, and the rise in mental health needs, to understand that we went to the side.”
“Admittedly, technology was not designed to have this result,” she continued. “But it is the lateral result.”
I echo at this point on how technology is generally developed with positive objectives, but it has been wrong or was misused. As a changing world designer iphoneIve includes his own work in this area.
“If you are doing something new, if you innovate, there will be unforeseen consequences, and some will be wonderful and some will be harmful,” he said.
“While some of the least positive consequences were not intentional, I always feel responsibility,” said IVE. “And the manifestation of this is a determination to try to be useful.”
Neither IVE nor Powell Jobs would be shown on the details of what the new OpenAi apparatus will be, but Powell Jobs says that it closely follows its development. “Looking at just something new manifesting, it’s a wonderful thing to see.”
The complete interview also addresses the personal investments of IVE in the redevelopment of San Francisco and Powell Jobs parties saving the San Francisco Art Institute outside bankruptcy. But the play also addresses the longtime friendship between the two.
“It’s funny … as I get older, for me, it’s (about) who, not what,” said IVE. “The very rare precious relationships are becoming more and more precious, right?”
Separately, IVE and POWELL – with Tim Cook – Launched the Archives of Steve Jobs in 2022.