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WordPress powers more than 40 percent of the internet. Its co-creator just stared down his own board and won. In a matter of days. The episode at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr and other digital properties, played out with remarkable speed and public flair. It has left observers wondering what it says about governance

Anthropic has locked in another massive computing agreement. This one, worth $13.7 billion over six years, comes from an unexpected source. The buyer? The AI company behind Claude models. The seller? RUM Group, the rebranded entity that operates Rumble and hosts Donald Trump’s Truth Social platform. The deal surfaced quietly at first. On August 24,

Bill Gurley laid out the business logic in May. Open-source software once helped companies build markets and fend off rivals. Now the same pattern plays out with AI models. His piece in Interconnects captures the shift that executives watch closely. Mark Zuckerberg offered his own take. Meta releases its Llama models because openness drives adoption

Sam Altman delivered a clear message last week. OpenAI will not go public in 2026. The reason? The moment demands focus on AI safety and alignment instead. “I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don’t feel pressure on that,” Altman told

Saudi Arabia shut down its vital East-West oil pipeline. Iran-backed Houthi fighters seized the strategic island of Perim. Oil prices climbed above $100 a barrel. These events didn’t unfold in isolation. They collided on Sept. 12, 2026, exposing the fragile state of Middle East energy flows. The kingdom’s main alternative route for crude now sits

Eighty percent of teachers across Europe worry that artificial intelligence has entered classrooms faster than anyone can manage. Students already turn to chatbots for homework. Many do so weekly. The gap between what educators see and what they can control grows wider by the month. A fresh survey from Epson lays out the mismatch in

Space is getting crowded. And dangerous. The European Space Agency reports the amount of human-made material in orbit has more than doubled since 2017. Roughly 44,870 objects are now tracked, according to recent analysis drawing on ESA, NASA and other agency data through early 2026. Only about 14,200 of them function as active satellites. The

Debian maintainers pushed out version 13.7 of their flagship distribution today. The point release arrives exactly one month and three days after 13.6. It bundles dozens of security advisories that had already reached users through the security repository. Yet fresh install images now ship with those fixes already applied. The official announcement from the Debian

YouTube just handed millions of households a straightforward fix for a long-standing irritation. Starting this week, users can lock individual profiles on smart TVs, streaming sticks and game consoles with a four-digit code. The move directly addresses what happens when roommates, kids or guests pick up the remote and start browsing someone else’s recommendations. From

Heidi O’Neill walked into Lululemon’s Vancouver headquarters on Sept. 8. She arrived as the company’s new chief executive. The timing could hardly look worse. Four days earlier, Lululemon had slashed its full-year sales and profit forecasts for the second time in three months. Comparable sales fell 9% in the second quarter. Leggings, the product that