Automattic Reaches Agreement with AI Companies on Training Data, Tumblr Owner Involved in Data Sharing


US tech firms profit while cutting jobs, sparking public anger. A survey shows 69% support forcing AI companies to surrender 50% of shares into a public wealth fund, so citizens share tech gains to combat job losses.....
The AI company Articul8, incubated by Intel, quickly rose after its establishment in early 2024. Recently, it announced that the $700 million Series B financing has completed half of the target, with a pre-money valuation of $500 million, which is five times higher than the $100 million valuation after the Series A round. The round was led by Adara Ventures, with follow-on investments from Aditya Birla Ventures and others, highlighting the market's preference for vertical-specific, controllable, and audit-friendly enterprise-level AI solutions.
WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg unveiled AI tool Telex at WordCamp US2025 to simplify website creation via AI. Currently experimental, users can generate content via telex.automattic.ai.....
Perplexity recently announced a partnership with several well-known media outlets to jointly create a customized Q&A engine powered by artificial intelligence. The company's business director, Dmitry Shevelenko, revealed that this initiative has been in the works since January of this year, aimed at promoting the company's own development.
Tumblr's parent company is negotiating with OpenAI to sell user posts for AI training. Automattic plans to release a setting that allows users to opt out of data sharing with third parties. Automattic has crawled all public posts on Tumblr published from 2014 to 2023. Reddit has signed a $60 million annual agreement with Google to use user data for AI training. Shutterstock has signed with OpenAI.