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2025: Year of AI disillusionment

Aka we got tired of the AI hype

Dec 17, 2025
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The Humane AI Pin never found an audience. Credit: Humane

In hindsight, the Humane AI Pin — shuttered and its assets sold to HP earlier this year — was but one canary in the coal mine. The AI hype after ChatGPT’s spectacular debut in 2022 was never going to last forever. And 2025 is the year the cries of AI doubters became louder than the hype merchants.

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