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HP’s Deal for Humane AI Startup Creates an Unlikely Partnership

HP laptop computers inside a Best Buy store. The company hopes its acquisition of AI startup Humane’s assets helps spur artificial intelligence innovation for its products.

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Welcome to Tech In Depth, our revamped daily newsletter with reporting and analysis about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr looks at what appears to be a strange alliance in HP Inc.’s purchase of most of the assets and staff of AI startup Humane.

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