Skip to the technical stuff Shutdown announcement On February 18, 2025, Humane announced it would be shutting down all services for the always online Humane Ai Pin in ten days, following a sale to HP. I had been vaguely aware of the Ai Pin, definitely more so than the average tech person, as I have a close friend who was one of the earliest adopters and eventually joined the Humane team to actively work on the device, but I ultimately knew little about them. I did know that they were small, ran Android, had good industrial design, and had a cool laser. I also have dreamt of a personal, local always listening device since I was a young teenager. I was a little more confident in my ability to help shape a niche device’s ecosystem after my experiences driving the Analogue Pocket’s growth, so I decided to go looking for disgruntled users looking to sell their devices.