For most of the past year, OpenAI's hardware ambitions have felt deliberately vague. We knew something was brewing. We knew Jony Ive was involved. And we knew the device was described, repeatedly, as "screenless." Beyond that, everything else was speculation. Now, a fresh leak is adding some much-needed texture to the story, and it points to something far more unusual than a phone or tablet.

Taiwan's tech giant Foxconn has just stepped into the AI spotlight with the launch of its very first large language model, and it's got big plans for it. Named "FoxBrain," the model is set to power smarter manufacturing and streamline supply chain operations—a major move for the world's largest contract electronics maker.