How the Humane AI Pin Failed
Days before gadget reviewers opined on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable powered by artificial intelligence, the company's founders gathered their employees and encouraged them to prepare. Reviews could be disappointing, they warned.Humane founders Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri were right. In April, reviewers brutally panned the new $699 product, which Humane had marketed for a year with ads and at glitzy events like Paris Fashion Week. The Ai Pin was "totally broken" and had "glaring flaws," some reviewers said. One declared it “the worst product I have ever reviewed”.About a week after the reviews were published, Humane began talking to HP, the computer and printer company, about selling itself for more than $1 billion, three people familiar with the conversations s...