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Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+ (Bryce Elder/Financial Times)
Bryce Elder / Financial Times:
Shoe company Allbirds, which sold last week for $39M after its valuation fell from $4B+ in 2021, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 800%+ — Ah, zeitgeist: — Allbirds is a San Francisco maker of wool trainers that was once valued at more than $4bn.
The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block AI rivals (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The European Commission issues a supplementary statement of objections threatening Meta with an interim ban on WhatsApp policies that allegedly block AI rivals — Meta Platforms Inc. has been threatened with an interim European Union ban on policies that allegedly block rival AI firms …
SaaStock is dead: founder kills Europe’s biggest SaaS conference and launches Shift AI
SaaStock founder Alexander Theuma is retiring Europe’s biggest B2B SaaS conference after a decade and replacing it with Shift AI. The Austin event on 15-16 April is the last SaaStock; the first Shift Europe runs in Barcelona on 13-14 October 2026. Theuma cited $2 trillion in SaaS market cap erased in Q1 2026 and the […]
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US utilities plan to spend $1.4 trillion by 2030 to power the AI boom
A report analysing capital spending plans from 51 investor-owned utilities finds the $1.4 trillion figure is double what was invested in the prior decade. More than 30 utilities cited data centres as a top growth driver. Average residential electricity prices are already projected to rise 5.1% this year. US investor-owned utility companies are planning to […]
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