TNW 388: OpenAI's Big Bet on Jony Ive - Sam Altman Partners with Jony Ive
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 22 May 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Emily Forlini and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy are taking the reins of this week's episode! Does a robot vacuum really need an arm to help keep your home floors clean? Inside the chaotic struggle to keep Fisker EVs maintain connectivity. A wireless way to charge your low-powered smart devices. And insight into Sam Altman's company, OpenAI, acquiring Jony Ive's AI startup company, io.
- Jennifer shares her thoughts on Roborock's Saros Z70 Robot Vacuum after testing it out for some time.
- Emily talks about an association formed by Fisker owners following the company's bankruptcy and how it collapsed following disputes over costs and a botched software upgrade with American Lease.
- Jennifer also had the opportunity to use a new wireless power system from Wi-Charge, which uses infrared lasers to charge low-powered devices, such as smart locks, wirelessly.
- And Lauren Goode, Senior Correspondent for WIRED, joins Emily to discuss Sam Altman and Jony Ive's partnership to create AI hardware following OpenAI's acquisition of Jony Ive's io company.
Hosts: Emily Forlini and Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
Guest: Lauren Goode
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, I'm Emily Forlini from PCMag. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm filling in for Micah. |
| 0:05.0 | We're going to have Jennifer Pattison Tuey from The Verge |
| 0:07.0 | talked to us about a robot vacuum she tested with an arm |
| 0:11.0 | that had mixed results at picking things up. |
| 0:13.0 | Then we're going to talk about my story of the week, |
| 0:15.0 | which is about what the heck is going on with Fisker EVs |
| 0:18.0 | now that the parent company is bankrupt |
| 0:20.0 | and there was a recent implosion |
| 0:22.0 | with the two groups that were keeping those cars running. And we'll be back with Jennifer. She's going |
| 0:27.0 | to tell us about some tech. She did really love wireless charging for a smart lock, which kept it |
| 0:32.0 | on and no neat battery replacements or anything. Super cool. And finally, we have Lauren Good from Wired talking about |
| 0:38.8 | a huge story this week, which is a partnership between Sam Altman and Open AI and Johnny Ive, |
| 0:44.2 | former Apple Design exec, and they say they're going to build a new mysterious device that's |
| 0:49.1 | going to change our world. |
| 0:52.8 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:55.6 | From people you trust. |
| 0:58.4 | This is Twitter. |
| 1:08.8 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 388, with Jennifer Patterson-Tooey and me, Emily Forlini, recorded on May 22nd, 2025. |
| 1:11.6 | Open AI's Big Bet on Johnny Ive. |
| 1:20.2 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking tech news. |
| 1:22.6 | We have some amazing reporters here today. |
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