Allbirds pivots to AI infrastructure, eyes NewBird AI branding
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Allbirds, once valued above $4B and recently sold for $39M, is pivoting from footwear to AI compute infrastructure, aiming to become a GPU-as-a-Service and AI-native cloud provider and possibly rename to NewBird AI. It plans to raise $50M via convertible notes and seek a charter amendment to drop its environmental-conservation mandate, with a shareholder vote on May 18; premarket trading has shown volatile, speculative moves.
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