In a conversation that felt part TED Talk, part campfire storytelling, Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steve Jobs, brought OpenAI’s CEO, Sam Altman, and former Apple designer, Jony Ive, onstage this week to talk about the AI-powered device they’re secretly building. And while they refused to actually show the thing — or even describe it — the hints were enough to send imaginations running.

The trio appeared at the end of a Demo Day event as part of Jobs’ company, Emerson Collective , in San Francisco, reflecting on creativity, the city’s strange magic and why the partnership between OpenAI and Ive’s design studio, LoveForm, has turned into a kind of tech soulmate situation.

A device that feels like a lake cabin, not Times Square

Altman said today’s gadgets feel like walking through Ti

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