Wikipedia has quietly turned one of the internet’s most beloved public resources into a structured data backbone for artificial intelligence, and the biggest tech platforms are now paying to tap in.

Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales said the nonprofit behind the online encyclopedia is seeking more licensing deals with AI companies. The drive is taking place as a series of automated AI bots strain ...

Wikipedia seeks fair compensation to offset server costs from AI scraping Financial burden highlights how AI models keep training on nonprofit’s data Wikipedia considers technical tools to limit AI ...

Wikipedia has finally taken a stance against companies that scrape data from their website, particularly those that use it for training their AI models without consent, compensation, or permission ...

As generative AI companies search for cleaner training data, one of the internet's oldest institutions is quietly changing its economic model. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has ...