When Apple announced iOS 18 in June, it also announced Apple Intelligence and integration with OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot. That integration means that Apple has a vested interest in what OpenAI gets up to and, as a result, it was going to have an observer seat on the AI company's board. But that's no longer happening.
The seat would have allowed Apple to keep an eye on what OpenAI was doing and how it was going about it in terms of ethics and more while having no control over the company and no voting capabilities. Apple's Phil Schiller was set to take the role, but those plans have now been shelved. A similar role held by Microsoft has also been canned.
