OpenAI has removed all mentions of Jony Ive's startup "io" from its website and social media pages. The scrub follows a court order prompted by a trademark complaint from iyO, a hearing device startup that graduated from Alphabet’s X moonshot lab.

A budding partnership between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and legendary iPhone designer Jony Ive to develop a new artificial intelligence hardware product has hit a legal snag after a federal judge ruled they must temporarily stop marketing the new venture.

All mentions of OpenAI's partnership with Jony Ive's startup io have been scrubbed from the company's site, following a trademark dispute. On Sunday afternoon, users on X noticed that the page on the OpenAI website announcing the company's $6.