Our Shoe Company Is Now An AI Company

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)

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