Automattic is lowering their contributor hours to 45 hours a week, to match those of WPE.

Automattic announces the acquisition of WPAI. The WPAI team of James LePage, Greg Hunt, and Ovidiu Galatan will be joining Automattic and working on integrating AI into core.

Automattic acquires Harper. Harper is a Grammarly competitor with a privacy focus. The creator of Harper will be joining Automattic.

An article on Automattic’s trademark enforcement plans on TechCrunch.

Wow! Automattic plans to migrate Tumblr onto WordPress.

Automattic continues its courtship of agencies with a new program offing packages across its lineup of products. It is a 180 tun-around from several years ago when they were focused on competing with agencies.

The other shoe just dropped – Automattic has been selling user data for years from .com and also from .org sites that use JetPack.

Following on the announcement that Automattic is in negotiations to sell user content from Tumblr and WordPress com, Morten Rand-Hendriksen asks 10 pointed questions about data ownership.

Matt Mullenweg shares about a new “game” at Automattic and mentions a shift in focus for WordPress com and Woo Express. It is kind of cryptic, but suggests they are adopting to the ecosystem.