Allbirds says the magic words: AI

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Allbirds’ surprise announcement last week that it would pivot from beleaguered shoe seller to AI computing provider stirred memories of a different tech era, Austin Carr writes in today’s Tech In Depth. “‘Internet’ was the magic word then, and ‘AI’ is the magic word now,” Jen Heck, who went through the boom-and-bust cycle as a young employee at Zapata Corp., told Carr.

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