Beeper, the multimessenger that Apple desperately fought for, has been acquired by Automattic (WordPress and Tumblr)
We haven’t forgotten yet Beeper — the same multimessenger that iMessage launched on Android, which upset Apple, so it acquired Automattic, which owns WordPress, Tumblr, Simplenote, and other services.
Tumblr and WordPress to follow Reddit in selling user data for AI training
Automattic, which owns Tumblr and WordPress, is in talks with Midjourney and OpenAI to sell data from user posts to train artificial intelligence systems.