Sam Altman and Jony Ive crash Google’s AI party. Apple wasn’t even invited.

Hello, and welcome to your weekly dose of Big Tech news and insights. These are the moments I feel so lucky to be a journalist in Silicon Valley. AI is rapidly changing so much important stuff, for better or worse. Even just witnessing this from the sidelines is a joy.

I had a fancy newsletter ready to go, all about Google’s big I/O conference. Then, OpenAI bought Jony Ive’s AI gadget startup for $6.5 billion. It’s called io. Lowercase. I’m not joking. That’s the…