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

Wikipedia, the world's largest online encyclopaedia, marked its 25th anniversary on 15 January 2026, celebrating a quarter-century of providing information powered entirely by volunteers. The ...

Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th ...

Wikipedia’s founder says AI companies relying on the site’s content should contribute more to its upkeep. Thousands left with ...

XAI has created Grokipedia and Grokipedia has a Nextbigfuture article. Nextbigfuture provided early coverage of Companies ...

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

In addition to the previously announced partnership with Google in 2022, the organization shared publicly for the first time that it has formed other partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral ...

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

The average long-term US mortgage rate is now down to its lowest level in more than three years. The benchmark 30-year fixed ...

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