WordPress.com just launched its built-in AI Assistant directly inside the editor and Media Library. Users on Business or Commerce plans can tweak layouts, rewrite text, collaborate via block notes, and generate images with Google's Nano Banana models without leaving their workflow, provided they use a block theme.
WordPress.com just launched a free AI website builder that designs ready-to-publish sites from a simple text prompt, automatically generating layouts, copy, and images. Users can tweak pages manually or ask the chatbot for revisions. It does not handle e-commerce or complex integrations yet, but for blogs and portfolios, building a site now takes minutes.
Automattic is reportedly finalizing deals with OpenAI and Midjourney to feed user posts from Tumblr and WordPress.com into their AI models. An internal scrape reportedly scooped up a decade of posts, including some private content by mistake, prompting Automattic to promise a quick opt-out toggle. Why it matters: Platforms are desperate to cash in on user data, even at the cost of alienating the creative communities that built them.
