Wikipedia just turned 25, and for its silver jubilee, it’s getting a very expensive gift from Silicon Valley: a paycheck. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has signed new ...

The founder of the platform says large language models have been ‘hammering’ Wikipedia’s servers and AI companies should “chip in and pay fair share”. The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has announced ...

On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced API access deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to get major tech companies to pay for high-volume API ...