Ive Designs Anti-Phone To Redefine Computing

In May OpenAI announced it would merge with io, the hardware venture cofounded by Jony Ive, to develop a new AI hardware device, with reports targeting a reveal in the second half of 2026. The column argues such hardware could reconceive the smartphone stack—LLMs as an OS, NPUs for realtime inference, voice UIs and ambient sensing—while raising pronounced privacy concerns.