When Apple sued OpenAI last week, claiming the company behind ChatGPT had sought to steal its trade secrets, one name was conspicuously absent from the lawsuit. Sir Jony Ive, the British designer whose collaboration with Steve Jobs led to Apple’s most creative years, was not mentioned in the 41-page document, despite his company, io Products, and co-founder Tang Tan being named as defendants. Ive has recently been working with OpenAI to develop new products and Apple’s lawyers appeared to go out of their way not to mention him by name, stating that io was founded by “former Apple leaders”. But...