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Apple Stars Jump to OpenAI
Jason Hood
September 22, 2025
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News of the Day
Apple Stars Jump to OpenAI
OpenAI hires Apple’s top designers to build AI hardware
OpenAI has bought a design firm for 6.5 billion dollars and brought in Jony Ive, Apple’s legendary designer, to lead new AI hardware projects. The company is actively hiring more engineers and designers from Apple, offering big pay packages and creative freedom.
Jony Ive and Tang Tan, Apple’s veteran product design chief, have joined OpenAI
More Apple talents like Cyrus Daniel Irani and Eric de Jong are moving too
OpenAI is working on AI-powered devices such as smart speakers, glasses and wearable pins
This marks a major shift as OpenAI expands beyond software, showing its ambition to create consumer AI devices that could redefine the future of hardware.
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Discover the measurable impacts of AI agents for customer support
How Did Papaya Slash Support Costs Without Adding Headcount?
When Papaya saw support tickets surge, they faced a tough choice: hire more agents or risk slower service. Instead, they found a third option—one that scaled their support without scaling their team.
The secret? An AI-powered support agent from Maven AGI that started resolving customer inquiries on day one.
With Maven AGI, Papaya now handles 90% of inquiries automatically - cutting costs in half while improving response times and customer satisfaction. No more rigid decision trees. No more endless manual upkeep. Just fast, accurate answers at scale.
The best part? Their human team is free to focus on the complex, high-value issues that matter most.
Social Media
Alright, friends – my NEW Apple Vision Pro app Metaballs: Spatial has launched! 🤯
This was SO much work, and would mean the world to me if you share, and go download it today!
— Gregory Wieber (@dreamwieber)
7:14 PM • Sep 20, 2025
2nd News of the Day
Huawei’s AI Won’t Answer Politics
Huawei launches an AI that avoids sensitive questions.
Huawei’s new DeepSeek-R1-Safe blocks political and harmful content with near-perfect accuracy, trained on 1,000 Ascend AI chips with help from Zhejiang University.
Nearly 100% success in filtering sensitive content
8–15% better than rival models
Less than 1% performance loss
It shows how China pushes AI safety and control while keeping models powerful and efficient.
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Trending Tools of Day
Snapdeck:
Lovable for Slides. No more wrestling with PowerPoint
Strata:
One MCP server for AI agents to handle thousands of tools
Notion 3.0:
You assign the tasks. Your Agents do the work
alphaAI Capital:
AI Trading App that Dynamically Adapts to the Markets
Pie:
The first AI QA team. Ship with confidence
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