There’s a lot of misinformation and supposition regarding what most now refer to as AI, or artificial intelligence. Though ...
The Wikimedia Foundation said it has inked agreements with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to use its content for training ...
As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public ...
Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI ...
Wikipedia turned 25 years old today. Now, its audience is increasingly all the massive big tech AI answer engines around the ...
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Around the turn of the century, the internet underwent a transformation dubbed "web 2.0." The world wide web of the 1990s had ...
Wikimedia is selling enterprise access to Wikipedia to Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, shifting AI firms from scraping to paid ...
The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the site, signed Google as one of its first customers in 2022 and announced ...
At 25, Wikipedia embodies what the internet could have been: user-powered, open, and accountable. Wikipedia may have its warts, and it's far from perfect, but it's transparent about its imperfections.