Humane

One device I didn’t expect to see at MWC 2024 in Barcelona was the Humane Ai Pin that was announced a few months ago. After all, Humane’s AI-powered gadget will only launch in the US and will also require a subscription to the company’s own MVNO wireless service.But this is a wearable device. It features built-in cellular service, and it’s built around AI. What better place to show it off than the biggest mobile show in the world?  I accidentally found the Ai Pin at Qualcomm’s booth while checking out the chip…

Day 2 of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2024 has concluded with some innovative and groundbreaking announcements. With almost every new launch, we are seeing more and more use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. It is as if these companies think that if they do not have some AI angle in their product, they will be immediately thrown into the dustbin of history. Listed below are the top 5 gadgets that were the talk of the show at the MWC 2024.Top 5 Gadgets at MWC 2024Humane AI Pin: Humane, an AI startup…

Members of the mobile and telecommunications industries have gathered at Mobile World Congress 2024 in Barcelona, held Feb. 26-29. The main trends at MWC so far are AI, 5G and always-on connectivity. We’re rounding up the enterprise business tech news from MWC that is most relevant for IT and tech decision-makers. This article will be updated throughout MWC with more tech news highlights. Intel commits to 5G and AI Intel hooked a handful of announcements to MWC (Figure A), including: Intel’s Edge Platform, a…

Hyped AI startup Humane has announced plans for its first international market, inking a deal with South Korean carrier SK Telecom. The announcement comes shortly after the San Francisco-based company revealed it was pushing back the shipping date of its Ai Pin device from March to mid-April in its domestic U.S. market. Founded in 2017 by former Apple executives Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri, Humane had raised north of $200 million from backers including Microsoft, Qualcomm Ventures, and…

Hardware is difficult, to paraphrase a famous adage. First-generation products from new startups are notoriously so, regardless of how much money and excitement you’ve managed to drum up. Given all that, it’s likely few are too surprised that Humane’s upcoming Ai Pin has been pushed back a bit, from March to “mid-April,” per a new video from the Bay Area startup’s Head of Media, Sam Sheffer. In the Sorkin-style walk and talk, he explains that the first units are set to, “start leaving the factory at the end of…

Following an abysmal 2023, layoffs in the tech sector continue as major corporations are terminating by the dozen. While smaller companies, like HumanAI are laying off about 4%, major ones like Amazon, are laying people off by the hundreds across divisions…

Only two months after it unveiled its much anticipated “AI Pin,” flashy startup Humane has laid off four percent of its staff, according to a report from The Verge Tuesday. The layoffs, which will affect 10 people, come as a wave of cuts are impacting workers at other, larger companies in the tech industry. Why is Everyone Suing AI Companies? | Future TechCEO and co-founder Bethany Bongiorno framed the staff losses in a LinkedIn post as a restructuring of the company designed to take it from a stealth AI startup to a…

Wearable startup Humane AI laid off four percent of its employees before it has started shipping its Ai Pin, The Verge has reported. Leadership reportedly told employees that budgets would be lowered in 2024, according to sources familiar with the matter. The cuts were implemented earlier this week and affect around 10 people.On LinkedIn, CEO and co-founder Bethany Bongiorno called the cuts "part of a wider refresh of our organizational structure as our company evolves with purpose for this next phase of growth." She…

If AI software were the biggest tech trend in 2023, it’s only natural that hardware will follow in 2024.In the year ahead, you can expect generative AI to become an integral part of smartphones, laptops, and other gadgets. Already, rumors of new AI-imbued devices abound, and some companies have been alluding to big plans even if they haven’t announced any specifics yet.Depending on your view of generative AI, such developments will either be exciting or exhausting, but we can all agree they’re inevitable. Here’s what to…

Ryan Reynolds-backed Mint Mobile exited to T-Mobile for $1.35 billion last year, and Sam Altman-backed “Ai Pin” startup Humane launched a pricey little device with a $24 monthly subscription that comes with phone number, unlimited data and as many AI-powered queries as you can muster. What do they have in common? They’re both MVNOs, short for “mobile virtual network operators” — independent mobile services built on top of carriers’ infrastructure. MVNOs aren’t new — they’ve been around since the 1990s — but the…