In the long arc of human invention, the tools we speak to have always revealed what we believe intelligence should feel like. OpenAI is preparing to enter the home with a small, battery-powered device — designed by the hand that shaped the iPhone — that aspires to be less a gadget and more a presence, one that learns its owner over time. Priced between $300 and $400 and slated for 2027, the hockey puck-shaped speaker arrives not merely as a product but as a declaration: that the next era of computing may live on your kitchen counter, not in your pocket. A legal dispute with Apple over metal-fi