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We asked six AI website builder assistants for an apple pie recipe. Two answered, two refused, and two could not process the question at all.

Hostinger promoted product and technology chief Giedrius Zakaitis to CEO, with Daugirdas Jankus moving to strategic initiatives.

Automattic's Desktop Mode plugin turns /wp-admin into a windowed desktop OS. Built in three days during an internal sprint, it is already live on wordpress.org.

A Delhi data center fire isolated a Google Cloud POP on June 9, degrading connectivity across three Indian cities. The compute never went down.

Namecheap halted Handshake TLD registrations on June 10. HNS is down 99% from its 2021 peak. Unstoppable Domains pivoted to traditional DNS.

WordPress.org made the 24-hour plugin auto-update delay default for every new release on June 5, 2026. Mullenweg calls it Protect The Shire.

SoftBank's €45B firm commitment and €75B ceiling for AI data centers in France drove Choose France 2026 to a record €93B total. France's nuclear grid is the structural advantage. SoftBank's balance sheet is the open question.

SiteGround auto-installed its AI Agent plugin on 1M+ WordPress sites timed to WordPress 7.0. The plugin's rating dropped to 1.1 stars within days.

Wix cut 1,000 jobs and Webflow 140, both naming AI. Hostinger Horizons hit 1M users, 93% first-time website owners.

WP Engine pursues WordPress Foundation dissolution. The June 4 hearing coincides with WordCamp Europe's opening day in Kraków.