Struggling footwear retailer Allbirds makes surreal pivot into AI tech
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Allbirds shares rocketed on Wednesday after the struggling footwear brand unveiled plans to pivot into artificial intelligence and rebrand as NewBird AI. The San Francisco-based company said it had struck a $50m (£37m) deal to become an “AI compute infrastructure”business, sending its stock soaring by more than 580 per cent in a dramatic market reaction....
