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Welcome back to the week in review. This week we look at the internal chaos in connection with the acquisition of AI Pin Maker Humane from HP by HP. Mira Muratis new AI company that comes from Stealth; Duolingo kills his legendary owl mascot with a cyber truck; And even more! Let’s go into it.
Humane’s Ai Pin is dead. The hardware startup announced that most of his assets were acquired by HP for 116 million US dollarsLess than half of the 240 million US dollars, which it applied to VC financing. The startup will immediately set the turnover of its AI pencils of $ 499, and after February 28, the wearable no longer connects to the Humane servers. After that, the devices cannot be able to call up, for news, AI queries/answers or cloud access. Customers who have bought an AI PIN in the past 90 days have a refund, but everyone who previously bought a device is not the case.
Hours after the HP acquisition has been announced that several humane employees received job offers from HP with Wage increases between 30% and 70%, Plus HP shares and bonus plans for internal documents from Techcrunch and two sources that requested anonymity. In the meantime, other humane employees – especially those who worked closer to the AI PIN devices – were notified that they no longer had jobs.
Apple’s long -awaited iPhone SE update was announced three years after the last major update of the budget -oriented smartphone. The 16E is part of an exclusive group of handshake that can carry out Apple Intelligence due to the addition of an A18 processor. The iPhone 16E also dropped the touch-ID home button in favor of the face ID and replaced the lightning connection in favor of USB-C. The iPhone 6e starts at 599 US dollars and will start on February 28th.
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Rip, duo: Duolingo “killed his legendary owl mascot with a cyberruck, and the marketing stunt is going surprisingly well. The company started a campaign to save the duo – and encourage users to achieve more lessons – as the company says, it is “duo or die”. Read more
Openai “Uncensors” chatt: Openai no longer wants Chatgpt to take an editorial attitude, even if some users find it “morally wrong or insulting”. This means that Chatgpt now offers several perspectives on controversial topics in order to be neutral. Read more
Uber against Doordash: Uber sues Doordash and accuses his delivery rival of the fixed competition by intimidated restaurant owners into exclusive offers. Uber claims that Doordash restaurants only worked with them. Read more
Mira Muratis Next step: The new KI startup from Openaai CTO Mira Murati, Thinking Machines Lab, came out of Stealth. The startup, which includes Openai co-founder John Schulman and former Openai-Chief Research Officer Barret Zoph, will concentrate on building collaborative “multimodale” systems. Read more
Introduction of GROK 3: Elon Musks Xai released his latest flagship -ai model Grok 3 and revealed new functions for the GROK iOS and web apps. Musk claims that the new family of models is a “maximum truth -seeking AI”, which sometimes “contradicts what is politically correct”. Read more
Hacker on Steam: Valve removed a video game from Steam, which was essentially developed for the spread of malware. Security researchers found that everyone who planted it has changed an existing video game to make the players install an information stealer named Vidar. Read more
Another is the rotation: Mark Zuckerberg and the charity organization of Priscilla Chan will end internal DEI programs and provide no “funds for social interest groups” for racial capital and immigration reforms. The change is only a few weeks after the organization has assured that the employees would continue to support the DEI efforts. Read more
Amazon closes his Android App Store: Amazon will set his app store for Android in August to concentrate more on the company’s own devices. The company informed the developers that they will no longer be able to submit new apps to the shop. Read more
Mark Zuckerberg’s Rebrand did not pay off: A study by the Pew Research Center showed that the Americans’ views about Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are more negative than positive. About 54% of US -growing people state that they have an unfavorable view of musk and feel a whopping 67% negative towards Zuckerberg. Read more
Headphones for noises can hurt your brain: A new BBC report takes into account whether the noise cancellous technology re-wires the brain of people who use it to switch off annoying background noises-and to forget the brain, how to filter noises themselves. Read more
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A comprehensive look at the Doge Universe: The dozens of people who Elon Musk and Doge under or advise or advise are a real illustration of Musks Weblike in the tech industry. Techcrunch presented the most important players in the Doge Universe, from the inner circle of musk to senior personalities, workers’ bees and areas, some of which advise and recruit for doge. We underline both the connections between you and how you have entered Mousk’s orbit. Read more
