Automattic’s board is out, days after its members voted to put chief executive Matt Mullenweg on leave, sources tell TechCrunch.

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Fathom said that it has over 400,000 monthly active users.

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Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.

Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is deliberately staying diversified.

Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.

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Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.

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Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared.

Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board."

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

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Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators.

The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.

"It's actually allegedly being built out now," said Rabois, who has clearly dealt with a missed construction timeline or two.