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Welcome to "On the Net Today". Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we bring you a handpicked selection of three valuable and interesting online resources to help you get the most out of the internet and optimize your browsing time.

Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• OpenAI buys Jony Ive's company, the designer of the iPhone

• Anthropic improves Claude, its AI tool

• A photo taken from the International Space Station among the 25 best Milky Way images of this year

OpenAI buys Jony Ive's company, the designer of the iPhone

Sam Altman and Jony Ive want to create the major devices of the AI era

Last week, the acquisition by artificial intelligence company OpenAI of io, the company founded a year ago by Jony Ive, became public. Ive is the designer who worked for years alongside Apple founder Steve Jobs and was responsible for designing the iPhone, one of the most revolutionary and successful products in history, as well as other Apple products like the iMac, iPod, iPad, and Apple Watch.

The deal, carried out through a stock exchange, has been valued at $6.5 billion.

The partnership between two such prominent figures as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Jony Ive has sparked all kinds of speculation about what their first product launch might be, which is expected to happen in 2026.

An interesting video has been published on OpenAI's website in which Sam Altman and Jony Ive explain their collaboration. You can watch it below.

Additionally, details about the deal have also been provided. Here we offer you a translation of the text published on the website, signed by Altman and Ive:

This is an extraordinary moment.

Computers are now seeing, thinking and understanding.

Despite this unprecedented capability, our experience remains shaped by traditional products and interfaces.

Two years ago, Jony Ive and the creative collective LoveFrom, quietly began collaborating with Sam Altman and the team at OpenAI.

A collaboration built upon friendship, curiosity and shared values quickly grew in ambition. Tentative ideas and explorations evolved into tangible designs.

The ideas seemed important and useful. They were optimistic and hopeful. They were inspiring. They made everyone smile. They reminded us of a time when we celebrated human achievement, grateful for new tools that helped us learn, explore and create.

It became clear that our ambitions to develop, engineer and manufacture a new family of products demanded an entirely new company. And so, one year ago, Jony founded io with Scott Cannon, Evans Hankey and Tang Tan.

We gathered together the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers and experts in product development and manufacturing. Many of us have worked closely for decades.

The io team, focused on developing products that inspire, empower and enable, will now merge with OpenAI to work more intimately with the research, engineering and product teams in San Francisco.

As io merges with OpenAI, Jony and LoveFrom will assume deep design and creative responsibilities across OpenAI and io.

We could not possibly be more excited.

Sam & Jony

Links: 

• Sam & Jony introduce io

• LoveFrom

• OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices – The New York Times

  OpenAI said it was buying IO, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.

Anthropic improves Claude, its AI tool

The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has just launched the Claude 4 family of its generative AI tool. These are Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, which come with enhanced capabilities to analyze large datasets and execute complex tasks.

One of the main new features is that, from now on, Claude can now perform internet searches to obtain up-to-date answers. This option is already available to all Claude users.

Currently, Anthropic offers free access to Claude for casual users, with restrictions on the number of conversations and certain limited capabilities, but which allows users to discover the tool's potential.

Additionally, the company offers different paid plans: Pro ($17 per month) and Max (starting at €100), among other options.

Links:

• Claude

• Introducing Claude 4

A photo taken from the International Space Station among the 25 best Milky Way images of this year

A few days ago, the 25 best photographs from this year's 2025 edition of the international Milky Way Photographer of the Year contest were announced. This contest has been organized since 2018 by the travel photography blog Capture the Atlas, directed by Dan Zafra.

This contest is one of the most prestigious international competitions dedicated to the world of astrophotography. Specifically, it focuses on images that capture the beauty of the Milky Way around the world. This year's competition received more than 6,000 photographs submitted by both professional and amateur photographers.

The organizers have selected 25 spectacular winning images taken at different locations on the planet... and not just on the planet, as this year's images include, for the first time, an incredible photograph of the Milky Way captured from the International Space Station (ISS) by astronaut Don Pettit.

The images are available on the contest's website. Additionally, the National Geographic España magazine website has published a detailed explanation of the selected photographs.

Links:

• Milky Way Photographer of the Year – Capture the Atlas

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