Wikimedia is selling enterprise access to Wikipedia to Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, shifting AI firms from scraping to paid ...

Online crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia, on its 25th anniversary, announced it has signed artificial intelligence deals ...

As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public ...

The Byzantines and the Venetians were masters of commerce, and that led to a devastating trade war between the two powers.

Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. Ramjohn is an ecologist by training, and for more than a decade, he ...

Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with a host of major AI companies in a bid to recoup the costs of being pillaged by data ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the site, signed Google as one of its first customers in 2022 and announced ...

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As noted by The Verge, the timeline on these deals is a little squirrely. The Wikipedia foundation says that several ...

Wikipedia commemorates 25th anniversary by inking AI licensing deals - Wikipedia, the ninth most visited site globally, ...

Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI have joined Google in paying the Wikimedia Foundation for access to its projects, including Wikipedia’s vast collection of articles. The Wikimedia ...