Jay Peters, theverge.com:

Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today.

For all the money spent to spin up Humane, I think HP’s getting a steal. But I also can’t help but feel they’re purchasing out of pity.

Ai Pin customers seem to be getting pretty well shafted:

AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will “no longer connect to Humane’s servers.”

Less than two weeks’ notice.

John Gruber:

Well, at least we can say HP was smart enough not to spend $1 billion on this. But they were dumb enough to bring into their company Chaudhri, who was described to me, by someone who worked with him at Apple (and a person whom I’ve never heard badmouth a single other former colleague), as “an utter fraud”. But a fraud whose personal website is an inadvertent testimony to the lunacy of the U.S. patent system — that it serves ego inflation, not innovation.

Gruber:

You can check the battery of a device that no longer offers any useful functionality. I get it, companies go bust, and when they go bust, their services go bust with them. But this is exactly the sort of outcome that made Humane’s AI Pin seem more like a scam than a product all along.