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Leak reveals what Sam Altman and Jony Ive are cooking up: 100 million AI 'companion' devices


And they're not XR glasses.

"The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user’s surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one’s pocket or on one’s desk," according to a recording of an OpenAI staff meeting reviewed by the Journal. If that sounds familiar, recall Altman's controversial obsession with Scarlett Johansson's AI companion in Spike Jonze's sci-fi film Her. The Humane Ai pin, which Altman invested in, recently tried to disrupt the entire smartphone paradigm and floppedspectacularly.

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