Bluesky has extended its Attie AI tool from custom feeds to prompt-built small social apps that run on the AT Protocol. Its pitch is a built-in audience on a network of 47 million registered users, where TechCrunch reports engagement has declined.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 46%
- Operator
- Operator 16%
- Investor
- Investor 38%
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+25
- Incentives60
- Confidence60
Matt Mullenweg's 84% vote returned him to control of Automattic 33 hours after its board put him on leave. For businesses on WordPress.com, WooCommerce or Tumblr, that vote is the governance they are buying into, whoever he names to the board.
Perspective Coverage
3 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 27%
- Operator
- Operator 28%
- Investor
- Investor 45%
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives70
- Confidence62
buildOne report1 publisher Control of Automattic's Slack workspace outlasted the resolution naming an interim CEO
A board resolution made Automattic's CFO interim chief executive on Wednesday. A spokesperson's sentence to TechCrunch on Saturday put Matt Mullenweg back in the title, and Automattic has not described what authority Mark Davies retains.
Reality
- Evidence63
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives74
- Confidence58
Automattic's directors put Matt Mullenweg on paid leave and handed the CEO job to their CFO. The plugin directory and the trademark that WordPress sites depend on are still his, held personally outside the company.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives68
- Confidence61
Automattic's board put Mullenweg on leave at a company that depends on servers he controls
Directors named the finance chief interim CEO on September 9 and left the open-source project's distribution servers under Mullenweg's personal control, while the WP Engine suit still names him alongside the company.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption40
- Hype gap−8
- Incentives78
- Confidence55