Bluesky leadership discusses a social media reboot and Bluesky's role at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Bluesky expands its AI assistant Attie into an open-ended social-research tool (Quests) across the Atmosphere/AT Protocol, backed by a $100M funding runway and a growing but cooling user base of about 45.6M registered accounts.
TechCrunch covers StrictlyVC Palo Alto’s final 2025 event, highlighting a speaker lineup of deep-tech builders and investors, and detailing Mistral’s Open-Weight AI push and related enterprise-drive developments.
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber steps aside to become Chief Innovation Officer; Toni Schneider is interim CEO as the platform’s user base grows from about 30M to 40M.
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