OpenAI releases gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, its first open-weight models since GPT-2; the smaller gpt-oss-20b can run locally on a device with 16GB+ of RAM
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b push the frontier of open-weight reasoning models Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog : OpenAI's new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good OpenAI on GitHub : ...
Q&A with Matt Mullenweg on licensing deals with AI companies, putting Tumblr's backend migration to WordPress “on hold”, fediverse, content moderation, and more
In honor of Automattic's 20th anniversary, and also since it's been a few years … Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : Lots and lots from Matt Mullenweg on Decoder, including some deep discussion of the...
Automattic lays off 16% of its staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become “more agile and responsive”; ahead of the layoffs, its website listed 1,744 employees
· — Earlier today, CEO Matt Mullenweg shared … Business Today : WordPress parent Automattic lays off 16% of its employees amid legal and market challenges Emma Roth / The Verge : WordPress.com owner...
Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project
Automattic CEO and WordPress co-creator Matt Mullenweg has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members …
In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository
which are gross mischaracterizations of reality—and reserves all of our rights. Automattic is confident in our legal position and will vigorously litigate against this baseless filing, as well as Foru...
In a filing, WP Engine asks a court in Northern California to issue a preliminary injunction and restore its access to the WordPress.org open source repository
In recent weeks, Mullenweg has backed up demands that WP Engine … X: Ivan Mehta / @indianidle : Automattic's response: “Automattic vehemently denies WP Engine's allegations—which are gross mischaracte...
Sources: Matt Mullenweg offered another buyout offer to Automattic staff; Mullenweg appears to have redirected staff's Blind sign-up emails to himself
🍿🍿 🍿 🍿 — https://www.404media.co/... @noellemitchell@mstdn.social : “Instead of Blind, employees have been posting on Anonymattic, an anonymous message board set up on WordPress's own systems that a...
Matt Mullenweg responds to DHH's claim that “Automattic is doing open source dirty”, pointing out Rails' own trademark policy and taking some jabs at 37signals
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Casey Newton / @crumbler : The number of ad hominem personal attacks against DHH in here that have nothing to do with the issue are extremely telling. Joe Rosenthal / @...
Matt Mullenweg says WordPress is “forking” Advanced Custom Fields, a plugin developed by WP Engine; ACF's team says the plugin was taken away “without consent”
It's super late at night on Thanksgiving weekend in Canada. Edward Targett / The Stack : Wordpress Wars: Forking crazy nuclear takeover triggers fury Luke Jones / WinBuzzer : WordPress Forcefully Take...
Matt Mullenweg's feud with WP Engine not only presents a significant conflict of interest but has also dragged the WordPress community into a legal mess
I realize that many people may not know or care who or what Matt Mullenweg and WordPress are, or why some people are upset about them …