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The story of the infamous Humane Ai Pin is coming to an end. This week, the company announced that HP\u2014known for its computers and printers<\/a> that always seem to need a refill<\/a>\u2014will acquire several assets from Humane in a $116 million deal<\/a> expected to close at the end of the month.<\/p>\n

HP will get more than 300 patents and patent applications, a few Humane employees\u2014including founders Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno\u2014and Humane’s Cosmos operating system. Late in 2024, Humane looked to license this operating system so that third parties could inject the AI voice assistant into other products, like cars<\/a>. However, nothing materialized.<\/p>\n

Humane became Silicon Valley’s \u201cnext big thing\u201d in late 2023 when it unveiled its AI wearable, equipped with a ChatGPT-powered assistant and a laser-projected display, that promised to replace your smartphone<\/a>. But when reviews arrived at launch in 2024\u2014you can read ours here<\/a>\u2014it was panned. The issues were seemingly endless: It frequently overheated; the AI hallucinated often; there were hardly any useful features; the projector was annoying \u2026 and so on.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, HP doesn’t want to do much with the Ai Pin hardware. Sales have effectively stopped, and Humane will issue refunds to anyone who bought a pin after November 15, 2024 (if you did, why?). Existing Ai Pins will cease to function<\/a> after noon Pacific on February 28. Almost every core feature will stop working\u2014but you can still find out how much battery is left<\/a>!\u2014and your data will be deleted, so make sure you sync and download it now.<\/p>\n

As for HP, it plans to integrate Humane’s Cosmos AI into its products to \u201cunlock new levels of functionality for our customers and deliver on the promises of AI.\u201d Good luck with that. In the meantime, Humane engineers will form a group called HP IQ, an innovation lab that will apparently build an ecosystem of smart features throughout HP’s line of products. Maybe that’ll mean a printer that will finally not drive its user crazy? Fingers crossed.<\/p>\n

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Gear Roundup<\/p>\n

All the top gear news of the week in one place. Here’s more you may have missed this week:<\/p>\n

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