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Jony Ive, who famously designed the iPhone (among other iconic Apple devices), is about to become the design lead for OpenAI, the chatCPT AI giant that, for now, does not make a single hardware device.

The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday reported the impending deal, which sees OpenAI acquire Ive's io company in a deal valued at $6.5 billion. As part of that, Ive becomes the design lead for OpenAI, a role he's been slowly-stepping into for some time.

Ive, who famously led Apple's design for decades, left the company in 2019 and, in recent months, has expressed some misgivings about the possible negative impact of the previous products he's worked on (which might include the iPhone).

"I think when you’re innovating, of course, there will be unintended consequences, You hope that the majority will be pleasant surprises. Certain products that I’ve been very, very involved with, I think there were some unintended consequences that were far from pleasant,” said Ive earlier this month, according to the Verge.

While reports indicate that Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are interested in building AI-capable consumer hardware, a smartphone is probably not on that menu.

Instead, most expect the duo to focus on wearables like earbuds and smartwatches that could be enhanced with, for instance, cameras that could see your surroundings and use onboard AI to help you act on and react to them.

A soft approach

Ive's focus will also apparently be on upgrading OpenAI software's visual appeal. So expect an infusion of Ive-ness on ChatGPT on mobile and the desktop (where it has a particularly techy or dev-friendly look), as well as on Sora and Dall-E interfaces.

In the latter part of his career at Apple, Ive was most responsible for stripping away skeuomorphism – making digital icons look like their real-world counterparts – across Apple's platforms. OpenAI's software doesn't suffer from the skeuomorphic scourge, but some could argue its overall look is less than elegant.

If you're curious if Ive's design skills are still up to snuff, just take a look at the updated Airbnb, which Ive's Loveform firm redesigned. Loveform, by the way, is set to remain a stand-alone company and will, according to The Wall Street Journal, work with OpenAI as a client.

The news must sting Apple a little bit. The company, which partnered with OpenAI to include ChatGPT access in Apple Intelligence, has not only failed to deliver its own generative AI, but is falling behind the industry in delivering a true, combined hardware/software AI experience.

Open AI CEO Sam Altman (Image credit: Getty Images / Tomohiro Ohsumi / Stringer)Hints of hardware to come

It'll be fascinating to see what Altman and Ive cook up, and we already have some hints.

Altman announced the deal by tweeting that he's "excited to try to create a new generation of AI-powered computers." Taken literally, we might expect an AI PC from the team, but I think here Altman means "computers writ large" in that most intelligent consumer electronics could be considered computing devices.

The tweet was accompanied by a video featuring a conversation between Ive and Altman, in which Altman described developing "a family of devices that would let people use AI to create all sorts of different things."

Without disclosing the product, Ive revealed that "the first one we've been working on has almost completely captured our imagination." Further, Altman added that Ive handed him the device to take home. "I've been able to live with it and I think it's the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen."

No matter what they're building, it's worth remembering that the road to AI hardware success is already littered with the rotting carcasses of failed ventures like Human AI. Regular people have not shown great interest in wearing AI hardware that doesn't align with their current fashion choices.

thrilled to be partnering with jony, imo the greatest designer in the world.excited to try to create a new generation of AI-powered computers. pic.twitter.com/IPZBNrz1jQMay 21, 2025

That said, there may be an opportunity for OpenAI, Ive, and Altman in the smart glasses space. It's the one AI-connected device area that appears to be showing some real signs of life. That's mostly down to Meta's efforts with Ray Ban Meta Smart Glasses, but also evidenced by the upcoming influx of Android XR competitors from Google partners Samsung, Warby Parker, and others. Some were announced this week at Google I/O 2025, and all of them will feature Gemini at their core.

OpenAI and ChatGPT may be leading in the generative AI space, but Google Gemini is close behind. And if Android XR partners can deliver stylish Gemini Smart Glasses this year, it could quickly vault Gemini into the lead. At the very least, this puts pressure on OpenAI to deliver something.

Is Jony Ive the secret sauce that will make ChatGPT AI glasses, earbuds, smart watches, and other consumer hardware possible and desirable? Maybe. OpenAI says we'll see their work next year. Just don't expect a ChatGPT Phone.

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• The Bear season 4 trailer has been released
• The timer suggests it could be the final challenge for the stressful cooking drama
• Season 4 arrives on Hulu and Disney+ on June 25

The Bear season 4 has an intense trailer ahead of its Hulu (US) and Disney+ (international) release on June 25.

Maybe I'm reading too much into things, but deciding to include the ever-stressful clock could indicate we're counting down to the finale.

There are also moments of Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) trying to remember why he loves what he does and approaching a meeting with his mother (Jamie Lee Curtis), so even if it isn't the final season, there's still plenty of drama ahead, and it seems to be building to something big.

Previously, I noted that The Bear made Emmys history for most comedy wins, but it's still the most stressful Hulu show on TV, and I'm sure season 4 will be no different.

Check out the new trailer below.

What is The Bear season 4 about?

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An official plot for The Bear season 4 reveals: "Carmen 'Carmy' Berzatto (Jeremy Allen White), Sydney Adamu (Ayo Edebiri), and Richard 'Richie' Jerimovich (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) push forward, determined not only to survive, but also to take The Bear to the next level. With new challenges around every corner, the team must adapt, adjust and overcome."

There's still quite a lot to speculate on regarding one of the best Hulu shows, so we'll have to wait patiently to find out more about season 4. It won't be long, though, and much like the clock in the trailer, I'm counting down the hours.

Until then, why not check out the biggest Hulu movies to stream in May 2025 or 5 new Hulu movies with over 91% on Rotten Tomatoes to tide you over.

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• Chrome's password manager will now allow for automated password change
• The new feature helps reduce friction, Google says
• Passwords remain the number one authentication method

Users can now change compromised passwords directly in their Chrome browser, in just a few clicks. This is the promise given in a new Google blog discussing the extensive changes the company is bringing to user authentication and identity verification.

Most browsers already come with a (rudimentary form of) password manager, allowing users to generate strong passwords, store their credentials, and auto-fill them for speed and convenience.

Now, Google’s Chrome devs, Ashima Arora, Chirag Desai, and Eiji Kitamura, said the company is building on that foundation to “fix compromised passwords in one click”.

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“Automated password change makes it easier for users to respond when their credentials are at risk,” the blog reads. “When Chrome detects a compromised password during sign in, Google Password Manager prompts the user with an option to fix it automatically. On supported websites, Chrome can generate a strong replacement and update the password for the user automatically. This reduces friction and helps users to keep their account secure, without hunting through account settings or abandoning the process partway.”

Passwords are still, by far, the most common and popular form of authentication. They are also the least secure form, as people tend to create weak, easy-to-guess passwords, tend to share them with friends, family and coworkers, or store them in insecure locations that hackers can easily access.

The community has rallied behind alternatives such as passkeys, biometric authentication, or physical security keys. Google is also working on all of these (and then some), but stressed that passwords were “still the world’s most common authentication method,” suggesting that it’s not abandoning the practice any time soon.

The full blog is a rather interesting read, discussing a unified sign-in experience, improved identity verification, and enhanced session security. You can read it in more detail on this link.

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• 512GB DRAM sounds huge, but don’t hold your breath for consumer availability
• NEO’s 3D X-DRAM stacks layers sky-high, but price and practicality remain unclear
• AI and enterprise systems will get the speed, regular users probably won’t

NEO Semiconductor’s push into 3D X-DRAM memory marks an ambitious attempt to rethink DRAM design for the AI and high-performance computing era.

While the promises - stacked layers, enhanced bandwidth, and reduced power consumption - are impressive, the practicality and consumer accessibility of these technologies remain open to scrutiny.

With the company projecting that its most advanced modules could reach densities of up to 512GB, it’s hard not to ask: who is this memory really for?

Complex architectures with limited consumer impact

At the core of NEO’s approach is a vertically stacked architecture that mimics the structure of 3D NAND.

In NEO’s own words, the array is “segmented into multiple sectors by vertical slits,” with “word line layers connected through staircase structures.”

The company compares its 3D X-DRAM density to the current 0a-node planar DRAM’s 48GB and claims to reach 512GB, but the implication that such capacities will trickle down into mainstream consumer products seems tenuous at best.

The proof-of-concept chips are still in the early stages. NEO is currently developing a test version of the simpler 1T0C architecture, with the more complex, and more promising, 1T1C version planned for 2026.

The 1T1C variant utilizes IGZO transistors paired with a cylindrical high-k dielectric capacitor. It promises improved retention time, reportedly beyond 450 seconds, and supports stacking up to 128 layers.

With further refinements, including the addition of 5nm-thick spacers to reduce parasitic capacitance, NEO claims stacking could exceed 512 layers.

The 3T0C design, which incorporates dual IGZO layers, is geared toward in-memory computing and AI applications.

Still, NEO’s statements about eliminating the need for TSV and enabling up to 32K-bit bus widths raise eyebrows.

Such bandwidth sounds transformative, especially compared to the projected 2K-bit bus width of HBM4, but scaling this level of performance in real-world systems is a non-trivial task.

From a broader perspective, the DRAM market hasn’t shifted significantly in terms of cost-per-GB over the past decade. Despite some fluctuations, the downward trend slowed considerably after 2012.

One might expect the MacBook Pro, for instance, to ship with far more RAM by default today than it did a decade ago, but that hasn’t happened.

Even with some price drops - DDR3 vs. DDR5 comparisons show modest improvement - the advances haven’t been revolutionary.

Commodity pricing may fluctuate, but the overall curve has flattened. Forecasts suggest we may be near a low point before another upswing.

So while 3D X-DRAM may indeed deliver bigger, faster memory by 2026, it’s unlikely these 512GB modules will be available to consumers anytime soon.

More likely, such capacity and speed will be reserved for AI servers and enterprise systems, rather than everyday desktops or laptops.

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• Linus Tech Tips and Kioxia have smashed the Pi calculation world record
• 300 trillion digits of Pi were calculated using Kioxia NVMe SSD cluster
• The seven-month compute effort ended with Guinness recognition

After StorageReview previously claimed the Pi calculation world record with over 202 Trillion Digits, now Linus Media Group, the creators of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, has taken it even further.

Working with Kioxia, LMG officially set a new Guinness World Record for the "Most Accurate Value of Pi", reaching an incredible 300 trillion digits.

This milestone was achieved using a high-performance storage setup featuring 2.2PB of Kioxia’s CM Series 30.72TB and CD Series 15.36TB PCIe NVMe SSDs.

(Image credit: Kioxia)Seven months and no SSD failures

The drives were organized in a NAS system connected to a dual-CPU compute server. The entire operation ran continuously for nearly seven and a half months.

“We knew breaking the Pi record with distributed network storage was going to be difficult - no one had really done it before due to the performance challenges associated with remote storage," said Jake Tivy, Writer & Host, Linus Media Group.

"Fortunately for us, the reliability and performance of Kioxia's NVMe SSDs enabled us to run continuous, intensive compute operations at speeds up to 100+ GB/s for nearly seven months straight, without a single SSD failure."

The project not only broke the previous record but did so by a wide margin. StorageReview’s 202 trillion digit milestone was huge, but it wasn’t officially verified by Guinness World Records.

The last recognized benchmark from Guinness was 62 trillion digits, so this new effort pushed that number nearly five times higher.

"Attaining a Guinness World Records title for the most accurate value of Pi is a tremendous achievement, emphasizing the courage of taking on a challenge and the power of great cooperation and teamwork," said Axel Stoermann, Vice President and CTO for Embedded Memory and SSD at Kioxia Europe.

"Kioxia America's successful collaboration with Linus Media Group enabled the demonstration of the robust capabilities of our NVMe SSDs under the most demanding of workloads. We will continue to advance the capabilities of our flash memory and SSD technology to support supercomputing applications," he added.

The Linus Tech Tips channel released a video documenting the effort which you can watch below. It also revealed the final digit of the record-breaking result. (Spoiler alert, the 300 trillionth digit of Pi is 5.)

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I've never owned another smartphone apart from an iPhone up until this year. However, as AI makes its way onto every tech product on the planet, I needed to try Android to understand the differences between artificial intelligence in the two ecosystems.

After using a Samsung Galaxy S25 for a few weeks, I returned to my iPhone 16 Pro Max. Not because it was better, but because the ecosystem you've built your life in equates to the deciding factor when it comes to choosing between flagship smartphones.

Once back on iOS, I found myself missing one specific AI feature more than others, and without access on iPhone, I quickly defaulted back to living with an Android device.

That AI feature I'm talking about is Gemini Live, and while you could access it on iOS, the experience was dumbed down. That was until yesterday, at Google I/O 2025, when Google announced that all of Gemini Live's capabilities are rolling out on iPhone, and at no cost.

Here's why Gemini Live is the best AI tool I've ever used, and how adding all of its capabilities to iPhone means I'm ready to jump back to Apple.

What Visual Intelligence wanted to be

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Gemini Live already existed in the Gemini app on iOS, but it lacked two crucial elements that make the Android version that much better. Firstly, Gemini Live on iOS was unable to access your iPhone's camera, and secondly, it couldn't see what you were doing on your screen. I/O 2025 changed all that.

Now, iPhone users can give Gemini Live access to their camera and screen, allowing for new ways to interact with AI that we've not really seen on iOS before.

Gemini's camera ability is single-handedly one of, if not the, best AI tool I've used to date, and I'm thrilled iPhone users can now experience it.

What is Gemini Live's camera feature? Well, imagine a better version of what Apple wanted Visual Intelligence to be. You can simply show Gemini whatever you're looking at and ask questions without needing to describe the subject.

I've found Gemini Live's camera functionality thrives in situations like cooking. I used it last week to make Birria Tacos, and not only was I given advice every step of the way, but it was also able to see everything I was doing and help direct me towards a delicious dinner.

Not only did propping my S25 on a stand give Gemini Live the perfect angle, but because it can connect to Google apps, I could ask it to get information on a recipe directly from the content creator's video. No need to constantly touch your phone with dirty hands in the kitchen, and no need to even check a recipe anymore. Gemini Live can do it all.

An AI companion every step of the way

Screen sharing allows Gemini Live to see what's on your display at any time, allowing you to ask questions related to imagery, something you're working on, or even how to complete a puzzle in a game. It's seriously cool, similar to Apple Intelligence-powered Siri we were promised but never received back at WWDC 2024.

Gemini Live's full free rollout has just started, so we're yet to see how this functionality will work on iOS. That said, if it works half as well as it does on Android, this will be a feature I could see a lot of people falling in love with.

Gemini Live and its multiple ways of interacting with the world completely unlock AI on a smartphone, and now that iPhone users can access it too, I have no reason not to return to the Apple ecosystem.

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Google has announced a series of updates to its AI agents in the hope that they become more streamlined as efficient colleagues, rather than tools that colleagues use.

"We envision a future where intelligent agents are not just tools, but collaborative partners in solving complex challenges, streamlining workflows, and unlocking new possibilities," Product Manager Polong Lin and Developer Advocate for Cloud AI Holt Skinner said in a blog post.

The latest updates focus on enhanced agent management and improved agent-to-agent communication – a sign of AI becoming even more autonomous.

Google wants to make AI agents more autonomous

The tech giant has enhanced its Agent Development Kit (ADK) to include a new production-ready and stable v.1.0.0 release of its Python ADK, which it says is already used by Renault Group, Box and Revionics. To coincide with this stable release, Google has also confirmed its first release of the Java ADK v0.1.0.

In terms of management, acknowledging that the Vertex AI Agent Engine already helps developers deploy, manage and scale agents in production, Google has also launched its Agent Engine UI for better agent lifecycle management.

Key features of the new Google Cloud console UI include a dashboard for managing deployed agents, metrics such as requests and CPU usage, session management and tracing, and deployment details with debugging tools.

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Keen to show off the power of A2A, Google boasted of support from Auth0, Box AI, Microsoft, SAP and Zoom.

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