The io device is mysterious and important – what could it be?<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Jony Ive and Sam Altman yesterday released a strong candidate for most frustrating video of the year: <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/21/jony-ive-and-evans-hankey-are-now-openai-employees-after-ai-startup-acquisition/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">promising a completely new concept[/url] in <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/artificial-intelligence/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">AI[/url] hardware, but giving very little clue as to what it might be.</p>
<p>I transcribed the video to see whether I could spot any clues, in conjunction with other things the two have said. I think we can draw some pretty safe conclusions about what it’s
not – and there are one or two clues about what it
is …</p>
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The io device is mysterious and important – what could it be?
