OpenAI’s $300 AI Puck: A New Device, or a New Headline?

A $300 hockey puck is not a new computing category! unless OpenAI can prove that ambient, subscription-powered AI is better than the phone already in your hand.

Bloomberg’s latest report on OpenAI’s first consumer device generated the familiar wave of excitement:

Jony Ive, Sam Altman, a mysterious screenless AI companion and a hockey-puck-sized object that may cost $300–400.

But strip away the visual drama and the new information is relatively thin. The puck-like design circulating online is an old, unofficial …