India, June 25 -- OpenAI, the company that gave us ChatGPT, is working on something big, and it's not just software this time. They've teamed up with former Apple design legend Jony Ive to build their first-ever hardware device. Earlier this year, OpenAI brought in a team led by Jony Ive, the former Apple design head, in a multi-billion dollar all-equity deal. The goal was to build a new kind of AI device. But there is one big problem. The name they were using, "io", is now caught up in a legal fight.

So what is the issue? Another company called Iyo says OpenAI is using a name that sounds too close to its own. Iyo is an audio tech startup that is working on an in-ear AI device. They filed a lawsuit claiming that OpenAI and its new hardwa...