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Struggling footwear company Allbirds exits apparel business to chase AI infrastructure hype, mirroring dot-com era corporate pivots.

Struggling footwear company Allbirds exits apparel business to chase AI infrastructure hype, mirroring dot-com era corporate pivots.

Allbirds is abandoning its core clothing and shoe business to rebrand as an AI compute infrastructure company

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