OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal due to court order

OpenAI has achieved a much-discussed video that promotes friendship between CEO Sam Altman and the legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (Plus, Incidentally, OpenAI’s Deal of $ 6.5 billion to acquire Io and Altman’s Device Startup Io) website and YouTube page.

Suggests that something is wrong with the acquisition, or with plans for leading design work at OpenAI? Not exactly, According to Bloomberg’s Mark GurmanHe reports that the “Deal is on schedule and is not resolved or something similar.” Instead, he said that a judge gave a street ban on the IO name, forcing the company to draw all the materials it used.

OpenAi then confirmed that this is the case, update The old announcement page With the statement: “This page has fallen temporarily due to a judicial order after a characteristic complaint from IYO about our use of the name ‘Io’. We do not agree with the complaint and discuss our options.”

The company said that this has no influence on the deal with IO.

The IYO in question came from the alphabet X ‘Moonshot Factory’, and the first announced product is a series of generative AI-driven earplugs. An earlier report at Bloomberg Law noted that Iyo had has a trademark lawsuit against OpenAiWith the judge who suggests that she is open to the company’s argument that may already cause the Promotion video of OpenAi’s confusion from consumers.

For now, the video at least remains visible on X.

This message has been updated with confirmation from OpenAi.