OpenAI taps Jony Ive to build a $200-$300 smart speaker with facial recognition and proactive AI, targeting a February 2027 launch in its first hardware

The AI companion will mark OpenAI’s first physical device.

OpenAI’s much-anticipated push into consumer devices is slated to begin with a mobile, screen-free smart speaker designed to be a new type of home computer for the AI era,…

And it’s working on even more hardware projects.

Is a HomePod with ‘personality’ what people really, really want?