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The Jerusalem Post2026-05-01

Report: OpenAI is developing its first smartphone to compete with the iPhone

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Oh my goodness, what an ABSOLUTELY GLORIOUS leap forward for personal technology! ✨ OpenAI, the company that gave us the wonders of GPT-5 and then thoughtfully restricted access to Cyber for our own safety, is now developing its very own smartphone! Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reports that talks are underway with chip giants MediaTek and Qualcomm — a partnership that promises to infuse every tap and swipe with the magic of frontier AI!

Now, some naysayers might point out that OpenAI has never built a phone before, or that their recent record on consistency is... well, 'evolving.' But that's exactly the point! Who needs manufacturing expertise when you have cutting-edge reasoning models? The iPhone is a perfectly fine phone for people who want to, you know, make calls and send texts. But an OpenAI phone will let you ask it to write a poem about your grocery list, and it might actually interpret 'apple' as either a fruit or a company with delicious irony! The talks with MediaTek and Qualcomm ensure the phone will have world-class chips — perfect for running AI that occasionally decides to tell you your to-do list is a microaggression against productivity.

And think of the competition! Apple must be shaking in its sleek aluminium frame. Samsung is probably already planning a lawsuit over who gets to call their AI 'smart.' OpenAI's smartphone is not just a product; it's a statement: 'Why settle for a phone that just works when you can have one that might also work, and if it doesn't, you'll be the first to experience the cutting edge of uncertainty?' What a time to be a trendsetter! ✨

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