Humane is selling most of its company to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today.
AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally until 3PM ET on February 28th, Humane says in a support document. After that date, Pins will āno longer connect to Humaneās servers.ā As a result, AI Pin features will āno longer include calling, messaging, AI queries / responses, or cloud access.ā Humane is also encouraging users to download any pictures, videos, and notes stored on their Pins before they are permanently deleted at that shutdown time.
xAI has an excellent and experienced team ā but I still think itās fair to say that Grok-3 reaffirms that the limiting factor in having a leading edge model is having access to Nvidia chips. In this respect DeepSeek is the exception that proves the rule: you can have a crack team that works around things like the chip ban, but the best path to success continues to run through Nvidia.
A calculator should show you the result of the mathematical expression you entered. That's much, much harder than it sounds.
On the researchersā benchmark, which consists of around 600 Sunday Puzzle riddles, reasoning models such as o1 and DeepSeekās R1 far outperform the rest. Reasoning models thoroughly fact-check themselves before giving out results, which helps them avoid some of the pitfalls that normally trip up AI models. The trade-off is that reasoning models take a little longer to arrive at solutions ā typically seconds to minutes longer. At least one model, DeepSeekās R1, gives solutions it knows to be wrong for some of the Sunday Puzzle questions. R1 will state verbatim āI give up,ā followed by an incorrect answer chosen seemingly at random ā behavior this human can certainly relate to.
The New York Times is greenlighting the use of AI for its product and editorial staff, saying that internal tools could eventually write social copy, SEO headlines, and some code.
In an email to newsroom staff, the company announced that itās opening up AI training to the newsroom, and debuting a new internal AI tool called Echo to staff, Semafor has learned. The Times also shared documents and videos laying out editorial doās and donāt for using AI, and shared a suite of AI products that staff could now use to develop web products and editorial ideas.
ā¢ Apple and Metaās Robotics Push ā¢ ā¢ Testing a new external Mac display, likely a successor to the Studio Display, expected by 2026. ā¢ Considering monetizing its Maps app through ads, similar to Google Maps. ā¢ Expanding Apple TV+ to Android devices to boost international viewership. ā¢ Apple is racing to roll out AI features in China by May, partnering with Alibaba and Baidu to meet regulatory requirements and integrate censorship systems. ā¢ Preparing a significant software update (visionOS 2.4) for its Vision Pro headset, adding Apple Intelligence and new spatial content features. ā¢ iPhone SE redesign set for release on February 19, marking a pivotal product update for Apple.
