“Truly a middle finger”: Humane bricking $700 AI Pins with limited refunds
After launching its AI Pin in April 2024 and reportedly seeking a buyout by May 2024, Humane is shutting down. Most of the people who bought an AI Pin will not get refunds for the devices, which ...
PC Gamer1mon
The $699 'AI pin' that launched less than a year ago is going to stop working at the end of February
Back in November 2023, we wrote about an "AI pin" made by a company called Humane that owners would wear like a little Star Trek badge. The device could, in theory at least, provide AI-powered ...
SlashGear29d
Humane Is Killing Its Disastrous AI Pin: Here's Who Gets Their Money Back
HP has agreed to take over the company's assets in a deal valued at roughly $116 million, while the AI Pin dreams will be abandoned. There is no word why the product has been canceled, and what ...
Marketplace28d
Bytes: Week in Review — deep cuts at AI agency, DOGE sued again and pulling the plug on the Ai Pin
And another wearable — the Ai Pin — bites the dust. But first, federal government layoffs continue, including, reportedly, at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST ...
Yahoo26d
The Humane AI pin is dead. I think AI gadgets aren't far behind.
If you were banking on Humane's Ai Pin being the Next Great Thing, this week was not your week. After skidding out of the gate in its debut, Humane's expensive AI gadget spent the last year ...
The Verge29d
The Humane AI Pin never had a chance
Previously, at Protocol, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Ten days from now, the Humane AI Pin will be able to tell you how much battery it has left, and essentially nothing else. To be fair ...
Android Authority29d
Remember the Humane AI Pin? It's now officially dead!
Humane is discontinuing the AI Pin, halting software support for the device, and deleting all customer data. Early customers who purchased the $700 device will not get any refunds. The company has ...
Gizmodo1mon
Humane Bricks Its AI Pin as It Gets Acquired by HP for $116 Million
HP bought up Humane’s CosmOS operating system and IP, including the tech for the AI Pin, for $116 million. The sale means the end for Humane. Unfortunately, for any lingering AI Pin owners ...
Yahoo29d
The Humane AI Pin was always destined to fail, here’s why
and one of the most hyped was the Humane AI Pin which launched to much aplomb thanks to the founders’ previous work at Apple. Except, it quickly became clear that — despite raising hundreds of ...
Yahoo Finance26d
The fallout from HP’s Humane acquisition
Welcome back to Week in Review. This week we’re looking at the internal chaos surrounding HP’s $116 million acquisition of AI Pin maker Humane; Mira Murati’s new AI venture coming out of ...
The Independent29d
Humane AI Pin: The most mocked technology release of recent years is dead
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...