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OpenAI has removed all mentions of Jony Ive's startup "io" from its website and social media pages. The scrub follows a court order prompted by a trademark complaint from iyO, a hearing device startup that graduated from Alphabet’s X moonshot lab. “This page is temporarily down due to a court order following a trademark complaint from iyO about our use of the name “io.” We don’t agree with the complaint and are reviewing our options,” OpenAI said in an X post on Sunday. Ive's io was founded last year by the former Apple designer to develop next-generation hardware for AI. Last month, OpenAI announced it was acquiring the startup. As of writing, while OpenAI has taken down mentions of io, CEO Sam Altman hasn’t. According to Bloomberg, the acquisition was to be completed in the summer following regulatory approvals and would have cost OpenAI nearly $6.5 billion. Despite the lawsuit, OpenAI has no plans to drop the acquisition. The deal will go through, a company spokesperson confirm...

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