Apple loses iPhone Air designer to unnamed AI startup

Bloomberg reports that Abidur Chowdhury, the industrial designer who introduced the iPhone Air during Apple’s September event, has left for an unnamed artificial intelligence startup. Here are the details.

Apple’s brain drain continues beyond its AI research division

Apple has been facing a relentless brain drain from its AI departments, with recent departures including top engineers and researchers who have defected to companies such as Meta, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

But in…