# Our Shoe Company Is Now An AI Company

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Podcast: [Tech Brew Ride Home](https://stenobird.com/podcast/tech-brew-ride-home-331078)
Published: 2026-04-15T17:43:00+00:00
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## Resource

Snap is cutting 16% of its workforce—about 1,000 people—as Spiegel blames AI for making everyone more efficient (read: expendable). Allbirds, the shoe company that sold for $39M, is pivoting its shell to become an AI compute provider called NewBird AI. OpenAI drops a cybersecurity-specific model, Google launches a desktop search app and Chrome AI Skills, and law firms say AI-generated client docs are actually creating MORE work, not less. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce (Bloomberg) Allbirds, sold last week for $39M, says it aims to become an AI compute provider; BIRD jumps 350%+ (FT) OpenAI rolls out GPT-5.4-Cyber, a fine-tuned variant for defensive cybersecurity (Bloomberg) Google launches a Windows desktop app with a Spotlight-like search box (9to5Google) Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts that Chrome users can run with a keyboard shortcut (Wired) Law firms say lawyers are spending more time responding to AI-generated client documents (FT) Learn more at liquid.trade/techbrew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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