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Two former executives of Humane, the embattled AI hardware startup, are reemerging with a new artificial intelligence software venture that has raised $4 million at a $25 million valuation. He and Hartley Moy are marketing the startup toward enterprise customers in industries like finance, insurance, SaaS, healthcare services and media. "It really came down to the opportunity that we saw in the enterprise side of the house," Hartley Moy, Infactory's CEO, told CNBC. But the two's departure had to do with the business opportunities they saw when working at Humane, Hartley Moy said. WATCH: Former Apple designers launch $700 Humane AI Pin as smartphone replacement
Persons: Brooke Hartley Moy, Ken Kocienda, Kocienda, Hartley Moy, Sam Altman, Marc Benioff, Slack, Andreessen Horowitz, Infactory, Ohtani Organizations: Humane, CNBC, HP, Microsoft, Tiger Global, Google, Apple, Bee Partners, SPV Locations: Salesforce
Humane's Ai Pin received some harsh reviews, sparking a response from its designer on X. Head of product engineering, Ken Kocienda, said people are jumping on the "skepticism bandwagon." download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementHumane's Ai Pin designer quickly defended the device after it was hit with several savage reviews. Ken Kocienda, head of product engineering at Humane, fought back against critics in a lengthy X post on Thursday.
Persons: Humane's Ai Pin, Ken Kocienda, Organizations: Service, Humane, Business
Tiny Love Stories: ‘Crying in the Driveway’
  + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
Changing the WorldMost babies look you in the face, but my son looked off to the side. As a toddler he fought something inside himself, and all my love could not help. I told him the world would not change for him; he must change for it. He is trying to change the world. When he leaves this fall for graduate school, his goodbye hug will leave me crying in the driveway.
For some Twitter employees under Elon Musk, sleeping in the office appears to be an absolute must — the physical embodiment of the tech industry's "hustle culture." It's also totally unnecessary, says Ken Kocienda, a former Apple software engineer and designer who helped build the first iPhone and iPad. "I was on these [Apple] teams from the earliest stages and I never once came close to sleeping at the office. It's not an essential part of doing great work," he wrote in a Twitter post on Sunday. The "hustle porn" trend of tech founders and executives bragging about working around the clock and sleeping in their offices is nothing new.
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