Wikipedia signs major AI firms to new priority data access deals

On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced API access deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, ...
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After Being Pillaged By AI Companies, Wikipedia Signs Deal to Get Paid By Them

Wikipedia has signed licensing deals with a host of major AI companies in a bid to recoup the costs of being pillaged by data ...
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Wikipedia's big move: It will now charge AI companies for using its content and monetize its content. Find out the complete plan.

Wikipedia has always been the face of a free and open internet. But now, the company has taken a significant step towards ...
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Wikipedia Reveals Multiple Deals with AI Giants to Use Its Content

The Wikimedia Foundation said it has inked agreements with Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta to use its content for training ...

At 25, Wikipedia Now Faces Its Most Existential Threat—Generative A.I.

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

Wikipedia Turns 25, Sells Access To Amazon, Meta, Microsoft And Other AI Giants

Wikipedia turned 25 years old today. Now, its audience is increasingly all the massive big tech AI answer engines around the ...
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Is Wikipedia a good source? When to use the online encyclopedia – and when to avoid it

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 ...
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Study Finds Most Teachers Use Wikipedia, Are Hypocrites

Hey teachers: Leave those kids alone! Or at least stop telling them not to use Wikipedia in their homework assignments, since you're all doing it, too. The Pew Research Center's Internet and American ...