Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses leader is joining OpenAI, strengthening its push into AI-powered consumer hardware.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MjUwMTkzNSwiZXhwIjoxNzgzMTA2NzM1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSDkzSDFLSVAzSjYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.tMgR1CJ2UJJv1tyON5v-40myXIGGf02kVBVoLCTlCP0"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260626/i22.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260626/p22#a260626p22" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mark Gurman / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-26/apple-s-vision-pro-and-smart-glasses-chief-paul-meade-is-leaving-for-openai?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MjUwMTkzNSwiZXhwIjoxNzgzMTA2NzM1LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSDkzSDFLSVAzSjYwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.tMgR1CJ2UJJv1tyON5v-40myXIGGf02kVBVoLCTlCP0">Sources: Paul Meade, Apple's top executive in charge of Vision Pro and smart glasses efforts, is leaving for OpenAI to work on the company's AI-powered devices</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Apple Inc.'s top executive in charge of the Vision Pro headset and the company's smart glasses efforts is leaving for OpenAI &hellip; </p>