AI really is transforming the world! The latest example: Dying shoemaker Allbirds is turning itself into an AI chip firm called NewBird AI. Its stock rocketed 600% in response. But before we dig into that bizarre story, we should highlight what may be today’s more meaningful news: Anthropic executive Mike Krieger’s departure from the board of Figma.
This might be what you’d call Figma’s Apple moment. For young folks, we’re talking about the then-Google CEO’s summer-2009 exit from the Apple board. He left a month after Google introduced the Chrome operating system and 11 months after Google’s Android first showed up powering a mobile phone. Both moves put Google into direct competition with Apple, something then-CEO Steve Jobs pointed out to explain why Schmidt was leaving Apple’s board.
