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

Wikipedia has quietly underpinned the modern internet for a quarter of a century, yet the free encyclopedia has watched artificial intelligence companies feast on its pages without paying much of the bill.

Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI

Here are some of the pros and cons to college students using Wikipedia in their research and assignments, from two research and instruction librarians at the University of Dayton. What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking ...

Some professors now assign Wikipedia editing as an alternative to the traditional research paper. Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images What comes to mind when you think of Wikipedia? Maybe you think of clicking link after link to learn about a topic ...

The Twitter CEO told an NPR reporter that he was using Wikipedia to determine which media outlets should get the new “Government Funded Media” label. Reading time 3 minutes Twitter CEO Elon Musk apparently trusts Wikipedia more than any expert or ...

Elon Musk on Monday night unveiled “Grokipedia,” an online encyclopedia built entirely using AI-generated articles designed to take on Wikipedia, which Musk and his allies have claimed is biased and “woke.” X owner and billionaire announced the ...