AI – Automattic

Automattic Celebrates Graduates of University of Illinois Chicago’s AI Leaders Program

June 23, 2026

On June 23, around 40 students from Illinois and Louisiana will wrap up the year at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) as the first graduating cohort of AI Leaders—the nation’s first workforce-focused AI literacy course tied to a recognized credential. These students built real WordPress projects. They applied generative AI to real work. For example,…

How WordPress Sent a Dog (and a Pop Culture Brand) to the Moon

May 4, 2026

The Pop Culture Monday site—and newsletter, and podcast—is an fun and irreveratnt testament to WordPress's flexibility.

WordPress: The Operating System of the Agentic Web

April 21, 2026

The very things that made WordPress successful as a human platform make it even more powerful as an agentic one.

What Automattic’s AI Enablement Training Means for WordPress

February 25, 2026

Automattic recently brought a group of employees to New York City for two weeks of intensive AI training. Birgit Pauli-Haack shares what the team built, what changed, and what it means for the WordPress ecosystem.

Automattic Welcomes WPAI

December 9, 2024

At Automattic, we’re committed to making WordPress smarter, faster, and easier for everyone. Today, we’re announcing the acquisition of a company that’s going to help us in that mission: WPAI. WPAI is an AI startup, focused on building AI solutions for WordPress. The brilliant founding team behind it—James LePage, Greg Hunt, and Ovidiu “Ovi” Iulian…