{"slug": "jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad", "title": "Jony Ive’s first OpenAI hardware device sounds rather like … a HomePad", "summary": "Jony Ive and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman are developing an AI hardware device that increasingly resembles a HomePad, according to a recent interview. The device, teased for over a year, is not expected to launch until 2026, and OpenAI remains vague about its final form.", "body_md": "[Jony Ive](https://9to5mac.com/guides/jony-ive/) and Sam Altman have been [teasing an AI hardware device](https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/22/the-io-device-is-mysterious-and-important-what-could-it-be/) for a long time now, and it’s increasingly looking like that tease was premature. We’re still not expecting to see a launch until some point next year.\n\n[OpenAI](https://9to5mac.com/guides/openai/) continues to be exceedingly vague about what form its first hardware device might take, but an interview yesterday seems to point to something rather like a [HomePad](https://9to5mac.com/guides/homepad/) …", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad", "canonical_source": "https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/30/jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad/", "published_at": "2026-07-30 11:13:47+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-30 11:40:58.645929+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-startups"], "entities": ["Jony Ive", "Sam Altman", "OpenAI", "HomePad"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/jony-ives-first-openai-hardware-device-sounds-rather-like-a-homepad.jsonld"}}