Welcome to Jumble, your go-to source for AI news updates. This week, a wool sneaker brand once worth $4 billion announced they are abandoning footwear to rent out GPUs, and its stock ripped 600% on the news. Meanwhile, Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 4.7 with sharper coding and a new effort dial. Let’s dive in ⬇️
In today’s newsletter:
👞 Allbirds rebrands as an AI compute company
💻 Claude Opus 4.7 lands with a coding upgrade
⚖️ A judge rules your Claude chats aren't private
🐶 Spot the robot dog learns to read industrial gauges
🎯 Weekly Challenge: Put Claude inside Word and Excel
👟 Allbirds Announces Pivot to AI Compute Infrastructure
Allbirds, the wool sneaker brand once valued at around $4 billion at its 2021 IPO, announced on April 15th that it is leaving footwear behind to become an AI company. The company plans to rebrand as NewBird AI and secured a $50 million convertible financing facility to fund the transition.
📈 A 600% Stock Surge in One Day
Allbirds stock went from under $3 a share to nearly $22 a share in a single trading session after the announcement (at the time of this writing, up 800%). The surge came despite the company closing all full-price US stores in February and selling its entire footwear business to American Exchange Group in March.
In response to this, Coffeezilla asks a question we’re all probably thinking, ‘Is anything real anymore?’
🏗️ Building a Neocloud From Sneaker Scraps
NewBird AI plans to deploy the funds to acquire high-performance GPU assets and lease them to AI labs and enterprises. The long-term goal is building a neocloud platform, a specialized cloud provider focused on AI workloads. The stockholder vote is set for mid-May.
🧠 Claude Opus 4.7 Lands With Sharper Coding and Vision
Anthropic rolled out Claude Opus 4.7 this morning as a direct upgrade to Opus 4.6, with the biggest gains on the hardest coding tasks. Cursor reports the new model clears 70% on its internal benchmark versus 58% for Opus 4.6, and Rakuten says it resolves three times more production tasks.
👁️ Better Eyes and a New Effort Dial
Opus 4.7 can now see images more than three times sharper than previous Claude models, a meaningful upgrade for agents that read screenshots or dense diagrams. A new xhigh effort level sits between high and max, giving finer control over how long Claude thinks before answering.
Credit: Anthropic
💵 Same Price, New Tools in Claude Code
Pricing stays identical to Opus 4.6 at $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output. Claude Code users also get a new /ultrareview command for deep code review and Mythos Preview remains Anthropic's most capable but safety-restricted model.
Weekly Scoop 🍦
🎯 Weekly Challenge: Use Claude Inside of Your Word and Excel Docs
Challenge: Ever wanted Claude to live inside your spreadsheets and documents? Anthropic shipped native add-ins that drop Claude into Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and the three share one conversation. This week, we're setting it up.
Here's what to do:
📥 Step 1: Install the add-ins Open Excel, Word, or PowerPoint, head to Insert → Get Add-ins, and search "Claude by Anthropic." Install each add-in you want. You need a paid Claude plan and Word is currently Team and Enterprise only.
🔑 Step 2: Sign in and open the sidebar Click the Claude icon in your ribbon to open the sidebar, then sign in with your claude.ai credentials. The shortcut is Ctrl+Alt+C on Windows or Ctrl+Option+C on Mac.
🔄 Step 3: Go cross-app With an Excel file and a Word doc both open, ask Claude to draft a memo summarizing your spreadsheet analysis. It pulls the numbers automatically and lands edits as tracked changes in Word.
Is "pivot to AI" the new "pivot to blockchain," or is Allbirds onto something real? And would you trust Claude to edit a contract inside Word? See you next time! 🚀
Stay informed, stay curious, and stay ahead with Jumble!
Zoe from Jumble
