Gruber[1] posted that Bloomberg reported[2]: "Humane’s team, including founders Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, will form a new division at HP to help integrate artificial intelligence into the company’s personal computers, printers and connected conference rooms, said Tuan Tran, who leads HP’s AI initiatives."

So they'll hang around as some sort of director-level Thought Leaders or something? Sounds like a safe and lucrative landing.

1: https://daringfireball.net

2: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-18/hp-116-mi...

More like IP acquisition and shelving for future IP litigation if AI bubble continues.

It seems like that and the 300ish patents. The patents themselves could be worth quite a bit.

It's possible they think the OS and the team that built it could have value if put to better uses than building an AI pin.