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Nickola Naous

UNCOVERED: Who decides what runs on your website - The Untold Story

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In May, WordPress shipped the most consequential release in its history. Version 7.0 brought AI into the core of the CMS platform for the first time, and the people who built it made a choice that's easy to miss in all the noise about the feature itself. They left it switched off.

The infrastructure is in the codebase, but nothing reaches an AI service until the site owner connects a provider and turns it on. Upgrade a site and walk away, and it behaves exactly as it did the day before.

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