Jony Ive, who helped design products like the iPhone and iMac, worked closely with Steve Jobs for more than 10 years until the Apple co-founder's death in 2011.

OpenAI's acquisition of Ive's io startup could disrupt Google and Apple's strategies, impacting the tech landscape and raising stakes in the AI race.

The leaders of OpenAI and Google have been living rent-free in each other’s heads since ChatGPT caught the world by storm. Heading into this week’s I/O, Googlers were on edge about whether Sam Altman would try to upstage their show like last year, when OpenAI held an event the day before to showcase ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode.

Barton Crockett, Rosenblatt Securities senior analyst, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the AI battle between Apple and OpenAI, future of AI-powered devices, OpenAI's purchase of former Apple designer Jony Ive's design firm,

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman became a household name after the release of OpenAI's groundbreaking AI model, ChatGPT.

Here’s what we know: it’s probably not smart glasses. Beyond that, we don’t know much about what Jony Ive and OpenAI are building through their newly combined company io, except that it’s some kind of AI super-gadget. But after a couple of years of watching the industry try and shove AI into every form factor you can imagine, we have some guesses.