OpenAI and Jony Ive’s screenless AI device reportedly faces voice, privacy and compute hurdles

Citing the Financial Times, an October 2025 post said OpenAI and Jony Ive were building a palm-sized, screenless assistant designed to stay on and sense its surroundings. The post said the team had not settled how its voice should behave, while continuous sensing raised privacy questions and running the assistant at scale posed a compute challenge. It also said manufacturing talks included Luxshare and that supplier chatter suggested first devices could slip to 2027.