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Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Jony Ive Named Trustee of the British Museum
NEW JOB: Jony Ive, former chief design officer of Apple, has been named a new trustee of the British Museum. The British Museum board has up to 25 members: 15 appointed by the prime minister, one by the Crown, four by relevant industry bodies, and a further five appointed by the trustees, where Ive's appointment came from. More from WWD An Archival Look Back at WWD's Coverage of the Mitford Family and 'Bright Young Things' Crowd Manolo Blahnik to Sponsor 'Marie Antoinette Style' at the V&A From the Archive: The Royal Ascot Where Fashion and Tradition Merged Other notable trustees of the British Museum include artist Tracey Emin, George Weston, whose family previously owned Selfridges, and TV host Claudia Winkleman. George Osborne, chair of trustees at the British Museum, said: 'There is no one on Earth better equipped' to help the British Museum bring great design and the latest technology together to transform its galleries. 'We're incredibly fortunate to have one of the founders of the modern age join our board. Ive fuses design and technology in a way that has changed our world — and with his work at the frontier of AI, continues to do so,' added Osborne. Ive, who recently signed a $6.5 billion deal with OpenAI to create physical products, said: 'I have adored the museum since I first visited as a child over 50 years ago. It is a remarkable and singular institution that ultimately fosters curiosity and understanding across cultures and time. 'Like most designers, I am a keen historian, and the British Museum is a masterpiece of public cultural experience. I am thrilled to be working with such a wonderful team, and look forward to supporting the museum's appropriately ambitious masterplan for transformation,' he added. Best of WWD Kate Middleton's Looks at Trooping the Colour Through the Years [PHOTOS] Young Brooke Shields' Style Evolution, Archive Photos: From Runway Modeling & Red Carpets to Meeting Princess Diana The Most Memorable French Open Tennis Outfits With Serena Williams, Naomi Osaka & More [PHOTOS]
The Advertiser
2 days ago
- Automotive
- The Advertiser
Ferrari delaying second EV due to 'zero' demand
While the first Ferrari EV is still on track to debut this year, the automaker's second all-electric model is being delayed to at least 2028. Sources at Maranello have told Reuters this second EV was initially due to be unveiled at the end of 2026, but its launch has just been pushed back for a second time, with the car now not set to appear in public until 2028 at the earliest. One of the newswire's informants said this was down to "zero" long-term, sustained demand for a high-performance Ferrari EV. While Ferrari's first all-electric car – which will be unveiled later this year, and should start arriving in customers' garages from October 2026 – is a low-volume model, the second EV is planned to be a core model that will sell between 5000 and 6000 units during its five-year lifespan. Ferrari's first EV (above and below) has reportedly been styled in conjunction with Jony Ive, Apple's former chief designer. It will be larger than other Ferrari models, and have a body that's not quite an SUV design-wise, but not quite a wagon either. Last spied earlier this year, the prototype has a synthetic V8 soundtrack and will make its debut on October 9, 2025. Pricing will apparently start from US$500,000 ($A770,000), and Ferrari expects to sell roughly 700 to 800 per year. Ferrari isn't the first the automaker to change its EV plans. While electric vehicle sales globally continue to grow, demand has been lower than expected. EV adoption has also varied wildly from market to market, with Europe and China embracing the technology, while the US has been slower on the uptake. This has caused many brands to adjust their plans. Some, like Volvo, are abandoning previously stated goals of going all electric by the turn of the decade, while others are investing in hybrids and plug-in hybrids to help meet interim CO2 emission rules. Lower than expected EV demand has also affected the supercar set, with Maserati axing the electric MC20 supercar before its launch, and Lamborghini delaying its first EV until 2029. MORE: Everything Ferrari Content originally sourced from: While the first Ferrari EV is still on track to debut this year, the automaker's second all-electric model is being delayed to at least 2028. Sources at Maranello have told Reuters this second EV was initially due to be unveiled at the end of 2026, but its launch has just been pushed back for a second time, with the car now not set to appear in public until 2028 at the earliest. One of the newswire's informants said this was down to "zero" long-term, sustained demand for a high-performance Ferrari EV. While Ferrari's first all-electric car – which will be unveiled later this year, and should start arriving in customers' garages from October 2026 – is a low-volume model, the second EV is planned to be a core model that will sell between 5000 and 6000 units during its five-year lifespan. Ferrari's first EV (above and below) has reportedly been styled in conjunction with Jony Ive, Apple's former chief designer. It will be larger than other Ferrari models, and have a body that's not quite an SUV design-wise, but not quite a wagon either. Last spied earlier this year, the prototype has a synthetic V8 soundtrack and will make its debut on October 9, 2025. Pricing will apparently start from US$500,000 ($A770,000), and Ferrari expects to sell roughly 700 to 800 per year. Ferrari isn't the first the automaker to change its EV plans. While electric vehicle sales globally continue to grow, demand has been lower than expected. EV adoption has also varied wildly from market to market, with Europe and China embracing the technology, while the US has been slower on the uptake. This has caused many brands to adjust their plans. Some, like Volvo, are abandoning previously stated goals of going all electric by the turn of the decade, while others are investing in hybrids and plug-in hybrids to help meet interim CO2 emission rules. Lower than expected EV demand has also affected the supercar set, with Maserati axing the electric MC20 supercar before its launch, and Lamborghini delaying its first EV until 2029. MORE: Everything Ferrari Content originally sourced from: While the first Ferrari EV is still on track to debut this year, the automaker's second all-electric model is being delayed to at least 2028. Sources at Maranello have told Reuters this second EV was initially due to be unveiled at the end of 2026, but its launch has just been pushed back for a second time, with the car now not set to appear in public until 2028 at the earliest. One of the newswire's informants said this was down to "zero" long-term, sustained demand for a high-performance Ferrari EV. While Ferrari's first all-electric car – which will be unveiled later this year, and should start arriving in customers' garages from October 2026 – is a low-volume model, the second EV is planned to be a core model that will sell between 5000 and 6000 units during its five-year lifespan. Ferrari's first EV (above and below) has reportedly been styled in conjunction with Jony Ive, Apple's former chief designer. It will be larger than other Ferrari models, and have a body that's not quite an SUV design-wise, but not quite a wagon either. Last spied earlier this year, the prototype has a synthetic V8 soundtrack and will make its debut on October 9, 2025. Pricing will apparently start from US$500,000 ($A770,000), and Ferrari expects to sell roughly 700 to 800 per year. Ferrari isn't the first the automaker to change its EV plans. While electric vehicle sales globally continue to grow, demand has been lower than expected. EV adoption has also varied wildly from market to market, with Europe and China embracing the technology, while the US has been slower on the uptake. This has caused many brands to adjust their plans. Some, like Volvo, are abandoning previously stated goals of going all electric by the turn of the decade, while others are investing in hybrids and plug-in hybrids to help meet interim CO2 emission rules. Lower than expected EV demand has also affected the supercar set, with Maserati axing the electric MC20 supercar before its launch, and Lamborghini delaying its first EV until 2029. MORE: Everything Ferrari Content originally sourced from: While the first Ferrari EV is still on track to debut this year, the automaker's second all-electric model is being delayed to at least 2028. Sources at Maranello have told Reuters this second EV was initially due to be unveiled at the end of 2026, but its launch has just been pushed back for a second time, with the car now not set to appear in public until 2028 at the earliest. One of the newswire's informants said this was down to "zero" long-term, sustained demand for a high-performance Ferrari EV. While Ferrari's first all-electric car – which will be unveiled later this year, and should start arriving in customers' garages from October 2026 – is a low-volume model, the second EV is planned to be a core model that will sell between 5000 and 6000 units during its five-year lifespan. Ferrari's first EV (above and below) has reportedly been styled in conjunction with Jony Ive, Apple's former chief designer. It will be larger than other Ferrari models, and have a body that's not quite an SUV design-wise, but not quite a wagon either. Last spied earlier this year, the prototype has a synthetic V8 soundtrack and will make its debut on October 9, 2025. Pricing will apparently start from US$500,000 ($A770,000), and Ferrari expects to sell roughly 700 to 800 per year. Ferrari isn't the first the automaker to change its EV plans. While electric vehicle sales globally continue to grow, demand has been lower than expected. EV adoption has also varied wildly from market to market, with Europe and China embracing the technology, while the US has been slower on the uptake. This has caused many brands to adjust their plans. Some, like Volvo, are abandoning previously stated goals of going all electric by the turn of the decade, while others are investing in hybrids and plug-in hybrids to help meet interim CO2 emission rules. Lower than expected EV demand has also affected the supercar set, with Maserati axing the electric MC20 supercar before its launch, and Lamborghini delaying its first EV until 2029. MORE: Everything Ferrari Content originally sourced from:
The Verge
2 days ago
- Business
- The Verge
Posted Jun 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM EDT 1 Comment / 4 New
Jony Ive is pivoting to museums. The ex-Apple designer, now working on AI hardware for OpenAI, just joined the British Museum's board of trustees. The London museum is going through a huge redevelopment, ominously dubbed 'The Masterplan,' and it sounds like Ive will give guidance on how tech could be a part of that. No word yet on who he thinks should have the Parthenon sculptures.
Perth Now
2 days ago
- Automotive
- Perth Now
Ferrari delaying second EV due to 'zero' demand
While the first Ferrari EV is still on track to debut this year, the automaker's second all-electric model is being delayed to at least 2028. Sources at Maranello have told Reuters this second EV was initially due to be unveiled at the end of 2026, but its launch has just been pushed back for a second time, with the car now not set to appear in public until 2028 at the earliest. One of the newswire's informants said this was down to 'zero' long-term, sustained demand for a high-performance Ferrari EV. Supplied Credit: CarExpert While the Ferrari's first all-electric car — which will be unveiled later this year, and should start arriving in customers' garages from October 2026 — is a low-volume model, the second EV is planned to be a core model that will sell between 5000 and 6000 units during its five-year lifespan. Ferrari's first EV (above and below) has reportedly been styled in conjunction with Jony Ive, Apple's former chief designer. It will be larger than other Ferrari models, and have a body that's a not-quite-an-SUV-but-not-quite-a-wagon. Last spied earlier this year, the prototype has a synthetic V8 soundtrack and will make its debut on October 9, 2025. Pricing will apparently start from US$500,000 ($A770,000), and Ferrari expects to sell roughly 700 to 800 per year. Supplied Credit: CarExpert Ferrari isn't the first the car maker to change its EV plans. While electric vehicle sales globally continue to grow, demand has been lower than expected. EV adoption has also varied wildly from market to market, with Europe and China embracing the technology, while the US has been slower on the uptake. This has caused mass-market brands to adjust their plans. Some, like Volvo, are abandoning previously stated goals of going all electric by the turn of the decade, while others are investing in hybrids and plug-in hybrids to help meet interim CO2 emission rules. Less-than-expected EV demand has also affected the supercar set, with Maserati axing the electric MC20 supercar before its launch, and Lamborghini delaying its first EV until 2029. MORE: Everything Ferrari
Yahoo
2 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Something Weird Is Going on With the Investors in Jony Ive's Startup That Was Just Bought by OpenAI
Back in December, Swedish tech entrepreneur Sebastian Siemiatkowski — the guy behind Klarna, the infamous burrito financing app — directed his family investment company to dump $5 billion into AI startups. The investment made up a "mini portfolio" of four "prominent US-based AI companies," a press release said at the time. Those were software engineer startup Anysphere, generative AI language outfit Speak, bioresearch venture Chai Discovery — and a fourth, anonymous company. On its face, there's nothing out of the ordinary about that. AI startups nabbed almost half of all venture capitalist funds raised last year, according to Reuters, amounting to about $96 billion. Anonymous startups are likewise pretty common, a tactic known as "stealth mode" made by founders who want to protect intellectual property or avoid media scrutiny until they're ready to announce their business. However, this "mini portfolio" earmarked a whopping 70 percent of its investment funds to the anonymous firm, or about $3.6 billion. All anyone knew was that this was a "seed investment" toward the launch of a "new AI hardware product." Six months later, a post by Siemiatkowski is clearing some things up: the anonymous company was "io," another secret startup founded in 2024 by Jony Ive. Ive is the superstar British-American designer behind iconic Apple products like the iMac, iPod, iPhone, and Apple Watch, and even some not-so-renowned ones, like that weird hockey puck mouse, and a 90s chic toilet. But Ive isn't why it's weird. A day before Siemiatkowski's post, tech billionaire Sam Altman announced that OpenAI had acquired io in a bizarre dispatch that reads more like a wedding website than a corporate press release. OpenAI paid $6.4 billion for io — meaning the Klarna King's secret investment in a little anonymous startup was now a public partnership with the biggest AI startup on the planet. Even stranger are some now-deleted posts by former Google designer Luke Wroblewski, who now spends his days as a director at Sutter Hill Ventures, a close-lipped titan in the tech funding space. "Congrats to io on the $6.5B acquisition by OpenAI today," Wroblewski wrote, according to TechCrunch. "Happy to have been investors in this one." TC managed to nab a comment from Wroblewski's now-deleted post on X-formerly-Twitter, which suggests that Sutter Hill "was the second largest investor in 'io,'" an idea that Bloomberg seems to support. The question is, why delete? Is there some reason that Sutter Hill isn't actually happy to be have been investors? Is someone else involved in the deal trying to keep a lid on where the money's coming from? And most strikingly, why the silence? Sutter had nothing to tell TC after it reached out to ask, giving an unmistakably weird aura to the rollout. The drama comes as netizens and news media alike are abuzz with speculation about Sam Altman's secretive "AI companion" device, which he began teasing back in 2023. So far, Altman has told us the device will be "unobtrusive," "pocket sized," and "fully aware" of everything in its users' lives. It's probably not smart glasses, according to the Verge. Whatever it is, Sam Altman has an ambitious plan to roll out 100 million of them by 2026. Time will tell if it's worth all the secrecy and bluster — or if it turns out to be another Humane AI pin. More on Startups: Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
