Welcome to 95 Mac Daily for Tuesday, February 24th, 2026.

I'm your host, Chance Miller.

We are sponsored this week by Ben Q.

Leading off today, a new report from the information details OpenAI's hardware ambitions

and reveals that the first Johnny Ive designed hardware device from the

company will be a smart speaker. As we've discussed before, OpenAI is working with Johnny

Ive to produce its first line of hardware products with a launch expected next year. Johnny Ive,

of course, is the former design chief of Apple.

The information report says that OpenAI's first hardware product designed with Johnny Ive will be a smart speaker, and is likely to be priced between $200 and $300.

The speaker will have a camera, enabling it to take in information about its users and their surroundings, such as items on a nearby table or conversations people are having in its vicinity. It will also allow people to buy

things by identifying them with a facial recognition feature similar to face ID. The report also

elaborates that Ives' involvement with OpenAI is complicated. He still runs his design firm

Love From as an entity independent of OpenAI, even though it is Love From that is in charge of

coming up with potential OpenAI device designs. Meanwhile, OpenAI's internal devices team is

in charge of making the hardware and software powering it, as well as

understanding how consumers will use that device. That division of responsibilities has reportedly

sparked tension. Some OpenAI staffers have complained that Lovefram is slow to revise its designs

and shares little about its process, even with others working on devices within

Open AI. We should see the first fruits of this Open AI and Johnny Knife collaboration sometime

next year. Next up today, Apple has announced that it plans to start manufacturing the Mac

Mini in the United States starting this year.

Sabi Khan, Apple's chief operating officer, shared the development in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, and Apple followed that up with a dedicated press release with more information.

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