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Thursday’s top story: AI wearable start-up, Humane, is receiving more returns than sales of its AI Pin, thanks to terrible reviews and ongoing issues.

🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🚨 Returns of Humane’s AI pin surge

2. 🔒 How to protect your personal info with Incogni

3. 📈 OpenAI’s $60M punt on webcams

4. ✍️ How to create compelling content with Augie Studio

5. 📅 How to automate social media content scheduling

6. 📚 Audible reveals new AI search

7. 🧠 YouTube’s Gemini AI feature

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STOCK MARKETS

⏬ The bounce back in the AI stocks was short-lived as the market continued to slide during Wednesday’s trading. Apple outperformed its peers finishing the day green with NVIDIA and Tesla losing 5%. Learn more.

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WEARABLES

🚨 Returns of Humane’s AI pin surge

Our Report: According to leaked internal sales data, Humane (founded by ex-Apple employees) is seeing more returns of its AI Pin (a wearable smartphone alternative capable of texting, calling, and taking photos) than sales.

🔑 Key Points:

• Humane reportedly made over $9M in sales since it launched the pin in April, but around 1,000 purchases were canceled before shipping, and over $1M worth of products have since been returned.

• What was positioned as a game-changing wearable, designed to “work as your second brain” has been plagued by terrible reviews like “it just doesn’t work” and “it’s the worst product I’ve ever reviewed.”

• Humane is desperately trying to maintain confidence among its potential acquirers (HP is considering purchasing the company) and investors as it negotiates with them to bring equity into the business.

🤔 Why you should care: Humane isn’t the only one facing overwhelmingly bad reviews about its AI-powered wearable device, designed to replace the smartphone: Rabbit R1 also faced huge backlash over missing features, a poor quality camera, a confusing operating system, and its consistent unreliability, possibly highlighting that AI is better used as a feature to enhance rather than replace smartphones. But what do you think?

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FUNDING

📈 OpenAI’s $60M punt on webcams

Our Report: OpenAI is reportedly about to lead a $60M Series B funding round for Opal, a high-end, webcam start-up, with Opal’s existing backers—including Founders Fund and Kindred Ventures—also joining the round.

🔑 Key Points:

• Opal’s flagship product is the popular “Tadpole” webcam that’s designed to clip onto laptops, weighs as much as a small battery, and (according to Opal) has a resolution equivalent to higher-priced webcams.

• If it secures funding, Opal will reportedly continue to sell webcams but it will put more resources into developing AI-driven devices, possibly powered by OpenAI’s image (DALL-E) and video (Sora) tools.

• OpenAI has funded over a dozen start-ups since it launched its venture capital fund three years ago, most notably Figure AI which just revealed its latest humanoid robot, Figure 02, powered by OpenAI’s GPT model.

🤔 Why you should care: This news follows reports that OpenAI is in talks with Broadcom Inc. about developing a custom AI chip, and after it recently hired several ex-Google engineers with experience in building ML accelerators, showcasing their big ambitions for AI in hardware

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AUDIO BOOKS

📚 Audible reveals new AI search

• Amazon's audiobook company—Audible—is launching an AI-powered search feature called “Maven”, to half its US customers, which will use multiple AI models to help users find the audiobook they’re looking for.

• Available on iOS and Android, the AI-powered feature will search for and surface personalized title suggestions (from Audible’s catalog of 1M titles) in response to a natural language query from the user.

• It’s also experimenting with AI-curated book collections and AI-generated book review summaries features, which could be a response to the AI-generated playlist feature that Spotify recently released.

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CONTENT CREATION

🧠 YouTube’s Gemini AI feature

• YouTube is testing a new AI-powered feature—Brainstorm with Gemini—that integrates with Google’s Gemini language model to help content creators brainstorm new video ideas, titles, and thumbnails.

• Although similar to the AI-powered inspiration tool they launched in May—which gives video topic ideas based on audience trends—it’s powered by Gemini, and YouTube wants to see which tool users prefer.

• Currently, Brainstorm with Gemini is available to just a few creators as part of an experiment, and YouTube plans to consider the feedback it gets before deciding whether to roll the feature out to a wider audience.

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