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OpenAI is now on pace to bring in annualized revenue of more than $40 billion, roughly double its run rate from the end of 2025. The jump gives the ChatGPT maker fresh momentum as it prepares to go public. For the banking, payments and fintech firms watching how AI vendors turn usage into money, the…

Most smart speakers sit on your counter like expensive paperweights that occasionally mishear you. OpenAI wants something different. Its first consumer hardware product — a screenless, doughnut-shaped speaker designed by Jony Ive’s LoveFrom studio — reportedly costs between $300 and $400 and includes mechanical parts that physically animate when it responds. Think less “Alexa, set…

For months, reports have suggested that OpenAI’s first hardware product would be a screen-free smart speaker designed to act more like an AI companion. We already knew it could understand its surroundings, be carried around the home, and proactively help users. A new Bloomberg report now gives us a clearer picture of what the device…

Screenless devices seem to be the next frontier in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware. There have been rumors that OpenAI’s first device might be a screenless speaker, but nothing concrete has come out. Bloomberg reported in July that the device OpenAI is developing with Jony Ive’s hardware startup, io, will be a screen-free smart speaker built…