Automattic's 33-hour coup, and whether AI labs can police themselves
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-09-19
- This podcast episode revisits Automattic's "33-hour coup" — the dramatic internal governance turmoil at the WordPress parent company.
- It also examines Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" proposal a week after an Anthropic researcher's doomsday warning, and whether AI labs can be trusted to self-regulate via independent evaluators and coordination among democratic labs — against pushback from Jensen Huang.
- Both threads converge on the core tension between tech governance and AI safety.
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