After sale of its shoe business, Allbirds pivots to AI

Allbirds is ditching wool sneakers for AI servers, rebranding as NewBird AI after locking in a $50M convertible financing facility.

Allbirds announced a switch from shoes to AI and its stock jumped 600 percent

Once a $4 billion apparel juggernaut, Allbirds will rebrand as NewBird AI, a “GPU-as-a-Service" company. Hey, if you can't beat ‘em, join ’em. www.wired.com/story/allbir...

Allbirds rebrands as Smartbird in AI pivot, hires former AWS executive as CEO; shares soar reut.rs/4owVHvY

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Many companies, from Walmart to United Airlines, have been heavily touting their use of artificial intelligence to get some more love from Wall

Desperate stock-boosting move recalls 2017's "Long Island Blockchain" frenzy.

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