Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+ (Anhata Rooprai/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/allbirds-rebrands-smartbird-ai-pivot-hires-former-aws-executive-ceo-2026-06-17/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260617/i29.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260617/p29#a260617p29" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Anhata Rooprai / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/allbirds-rebrands-smartbird-ai-pivot-hires-former-aws-executive-ceo-2026-06-17/">Shoe company Allbirds changes its name to Smartbird as it pivots to an AI infrastructure company and names ex-AWS exec Nadia Carlsten as CEO; BIRD jumps 20%+</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Allbirds (BIRD.O) changed its name to Smartbird on Wednesday and appointed former Amazon Web Services (AMZN.O) &hellip; </p>