In addition to the previously announced partnership with Google in 2022, the organization shared publicly for the first time ...

Microsoft promises to be a responsible copilot The Wikimedia Foundation, the org behind Wikipedia and other open knowledge ...

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 ...

The parent organization of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia has proposed closing down a sister project called Wikinews, according to a proposal reviewed by The Desk. Low readership and even lower ...

Wikimedia Foundation said the move will give tech platforms access to reliable content for their AI models, while helping ...

Wikipedia is licensing AI access to Microsoft, Meta and more as AI bots drive up costs and human pageviews decline.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The Wikimedia Foundation may be better known for a vast crowdsourced ...

Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse Trustees say it hasn’t done enough to stop abuse is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered ...

The Wikimedia Foundation has announced the first Universal Code of Conduct to tackle misinformation and harassment on Wikipedia. The foundation says that the rules clearly spell out what behavior is ...

WASHINGTON — The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia, petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court today to review a challenge to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) mass surveillance of ...

On Tuesday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced that relentless AI scraping is putting strain on Wikipedia’s servers. Automated bots seeking AI model training data for LLMs have been vacuuming up ...