WordPress.com now lets AI agents write and publish posts, and more | TechCrunch

Last day to exhibit your breakthrough to 10,000+ tech leaders at Disrupt is on Oct 2. Book Exhibit Table Now. Disrupt doors open Oct. 13. Get your pass and bring someone with you at 50% off. REGISTER NOW. Web hosting platform WordPress.com is embracing AI agents, a decision that could change the look and feel of the web. The company announced Friday that it will now allow AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content on customers’ websites, as well as manage comments, update and fix metadata, organize content with tags and categories. All of this is controlled through an interface where the website’s owner explains what they want to do using natural language commands. With these new capabilities, websites could be almost entirely created and run via AI agents controlled by humans. This lowers the barrier to setting up and maintaining websites; it may also help fill the web with content no longer written by people, but by machines. As a publishing platform, WordPress powers over 43% of all websites on the internet. The hosted version at WordPress.com represents only a small fraction of that total. Still, its network of websites has a sizable footprint, seeing 20 billion page views a