{"id":75996,"date":"2025-02-23T14:44:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ai-wearables-1-0-was-humanes-ai-pin-too-ambitious\/"},"modified":"2025-02-23T14:44:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:44:17","slug":"ai-wearables-1-0-was-humanes-ai-pin-too-ambitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/ai-wearables-1-0-was-humanes-ai-pin-too-ambitious\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Wearables 1.0: Was Humane\u2019s AI Pin too ambitious?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Humane\u2019s AI Pin (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/20\/inside-the-humane-acquisition-hp-offers-big-raises-to-some-others-immediately-laid-off\/<\/a>) , which promised to replace your smartphone with a sleek wearable device, is officially dead. After a rocky launch, negative reviews, and returns outpacing sales, the startup is shutting down and selling its assets to HP for $116 million \u2013 less than half of what it raised. But what\u2019s next for Humane\u2019s tech?<\/p>\n

On today’s episode of Equity (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/podcasts\/equity\/<\/a>) , hosts Kirsten Korosec, Max Zeff and Anthony Ha are breaking down the week\u2019s tech and startup headlines, including what HP might do with Humane\u2019s resources and talent and how, as Max put it, the AI Pin was clearly ahead of its time.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full episode to hear about:<\/p>\n

\u2022 The people in Elon Musk\u2019s DOGE universe (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/18\/the-people-in-elon-musk-doge-universe\/<\/a>) , the AI behind it, and the potential future of AI-powered government initiatives<\/p>\n

\u2022 The new AI lab contenders, Safe Superintelligence (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/18\/safe-superintelligence-ilya-sutskevers-ai-startup-is-reportedly-close-to-raising-roughly-1b\/<\/a>) and Thinking Machines Lab (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/18\/thinking-machines-lab-is-ex-openai-cto-mira-muratis-new-startup\/<\/a>) , and whether VCs are putting more stock in talent than actual results<\/p>\n

\u2022 The Uber v. DoorDash (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/14\/uber-sues-doordash-alleging-anti-competitive-tactics\/<\/a>) lawsuit over \u201canti-competitive tactics\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2022 And why Duolingo\u2019s mascot getting killed off in a Cybertruck crash is oddly working in the brand\u2019s favor (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/18\/duolingo-killed-its-mascot-with-a-cybertruck-and-its-going-weirdly-well\/<\/a>) <\/p>\n

Equity is TechCrunch\u2019s flagship podcast, produced by Theresa Loconsolo, and posts every Wednesday and Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Humane\u2019s AI Pin (https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/20\/inside-the-humane-acquisition-hp-offers-big-raises-to-some-others-immediately-laid-off\/) , which promised to replace your smartphone with a sleek wearable device, is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}