HP buys Humane’s assets for $116 million. The Pin is over.

HP is buying Humane’s assets for $116 million. TechCrunch’s headline is the accurate one: “Humane’s AI Pin is dead as HP buys startup’s assets for $116M” (TechCrunch, 18 February 2025). The Verge’s reporting on the same deal is the consumer translation: the Pin shuts down (The Verge).

Humane raised on the order of $230 million to ship a $699 pin that reviewers rejected in a week, cut to $499 in October, and whose Charge Case was recalled as a fire hazard. An asset sale at $116 million is not a pivot. It is the inventory of a company that no longer exists as a going consumer vendor.

Humane named the clock the same day. Purchased Pins keep working until 3pm ET (12pm PST) on 28 February; after that they will not connect to Humane’s servers, and leftover pictures, videos and notes are deleted (The Verge, 18 February 2025). CosmOS is a cloud. The $24 month was never a content bundle; it was the device. The Trust Light, the privacy chip and the eSIM become a case study on that date, not a maintenance question with a new landlord.

This desk will keep the AI Pin page. A ranking of shipping wearables cannot put a dead pin in first place, and it also cannot pretend the category did not just watch $699 of hardware depend on a startup staying alive.