From PC Mag: Ahead of OpenAI preparing to launch its first hardware products, yet another senior Apple hardware executive has jumped ship.
Paul Meade, an Apple VP who heads up the Vision Pro team, is leaving to join OpenAI’s hardware team, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports. Gurman said that the move was linked to John Ternus’s upcoming promotion to CEO, replacing Tim Cook, which allegedly made some staff feel that they had been “demoted.”
The news comes after former Apple design chief Jony Ive, who left the company in 2019, teamed up with OpenAI in May 2025 to work on an AI hardware device. OpenAI also acquired Ive’s "io" startup for $6.5 billion. Ive founded io in 2024 with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey, and Tang Tan, all of whom are former Apple design chiefs.
Fletcher Rothkopf, who currently leads the product design function for the Vision Pro and smart glasses, will replace Meade.
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