OpenAI pulls promotional supplies round Jony Ive deal

OpenAI seems to have pulled a much-discussed video selling the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, by the way, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to amass Ive and Altman’s machine startup io) from its web site and YouTube web page.

Does that counsel one thing is amiss with the acquisition, or with plans for Ive to steer design work at OpenAI? Not precisely, in accordance with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who studies that the “deal is on monitor and has NOT dissolved or something of the kind.” As a substitute, he stated a choose has issued a restraining order over the io title, forcing the corporate to drag all supplies that used it.

And certainly, an earlier report at Bloomberg Legislation famous that AI machine maker IYO has introduced a trademark lawsuit towards OpenAI, with the choose suggesting she’s open to IYO’s argument that OpenAI’s promotional video would possibly already be creating client confusion.

TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for remark. For now, no less than, the video stays viewable on X.