What role does io Products play in the case?
io Products, the hardware startup co-founded by former Apple design chief Jony Ive, is named as a defendant alongside OpenAI. OpenAI acquired io for $6.4 billion in 2025 to build its own AI hardware device. Ive himself is not personally accused of wrongdoing anywhere in Apple's complaint.
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