Wikipedia Blacklists Archive.today, Starts Removing 695,000 Archive Links
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. In the cou…
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Report reveals that OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cites Grokipedia
Jackson Chen / engadget - OpenAI may have called GPT-5.2 its "most advanced frontier model for professional work," but tests conducted by the Guardian cast doubt on its credibility. According to the report, OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia, the online encyclopedia powered b…
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Wikipedia is now 25 years old — world’s 7th most popular website now has over 7 million English articles and 7 billion monthly visitors
tomshardware - Wikipedia is 25. Founded on this day in 2001, this community contributor driven site has convincingly usurped what were once the default general reference works of choice, like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta.
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Wikipedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and More
Laurent Giret / thurrott - Wikipedia new AI partnerships with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity, which will join Google and other companies already using its content to train their AI models.The post Wikipedia Announces New AI Partnerships With Amazon, Meta, Micro…
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Wikimedia Foundation secures AI data deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft and more
Emre Çıtak / dataconomy - Coinciding with its 25th anniversary celebrations, the Wikimedia Foundation has publicly unveiled a significant expansion of its commercial partnerships, welcoming major technology firms including Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as cus…
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Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedia for the data they already use
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Wikipedia has signed Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as paying partners for its Enterprise API, but not every website can offset the traffic losses caused by AI systems.The article Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedi…
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Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
techxplore - Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary.
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Wikipedia Asks AI Companies to Stop Scraping Data and to Start Paying Up
Imad Khan / cnet - The free internet encyclopedia is the seventh-most visited website in the world, and it wants to stay that way.
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Google & Bing Are Indexing Grokipedia - AI Generated Wikipedia / Encyclopedia
barry@rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz) / seroundtable - Grokipedia, an AI-generated online encyclopedia launched a week ago with over 800,000 AI-generated pages, and both Google and Bing have already indexed hundreds, if not thousands, of those AI-generated pages.
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Tim Bray on Grokipedia
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Elon Musk Launches Grokipedia to Take On ‘Propaganda’ Wikipedia
Jon Swartz / techstrong - Is the world ready for Grokipedia? Elon Musk, xAI's billionaire founder, thinks so. This week, he unveiled Grokipedia, a crowdsourced online encyclopedia positioned as an alternative to Wikipedia amid ongoing conservative criticism of the established plat…
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Elon Musk launches Grokipedia, an AI-written rival to Wikipedia
techspot - Elon Musk has introduced Grokipedia, a digital encyclopedia that relies on artificial intelligence rather than human editors to compile and update entries. The new platform, developed through his artificial intelligence company xAI, marks his most direct …
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Elon Musk’s Version of Wikipedia Is Live. Here’s what the difference is
Mike Pearl / gizmodo - Grokipedia exists. You can read it if you want.
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Wikipedia Says It's Losing Traffic Due to AI Summaries, Social Media Videos
Julian Dossett / cnet - The popular online encyclopedia saw an 8% drop in pageviews over the last few months.
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US Congress Investigates Wikipedia Over Alleged Foreign Manipulation, Bias
Prabhanu Kumar Das / medianama - After the US Attorney asked for details of the Wikipedia moderation process on grounds that it allows foreign actors to manipulate information, the Congress’ House Committee on Oversight & Govt Reform has started an investigation into the matterThe post U…
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Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Jon Brodkin / arstechnica - Judge tossed claim but said UK must not "significantly impede" Wikipedia operations.
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Wikipedia Won't Add AI-Generated Slop After Editors Yelled At Them
Zack Zwiezen / kotaku - The Wikimedia Foundation, a nonprofit group that hosts, develops, and controls Wikipedia, has announced that it won’t be moving forward with plans to add AI-generated summaries to articles after it received an overwhelmingly negative reaction from its arm…
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Wikipedia Pauses AI-Generated Summaries After Editor Backlash
Emanuel Maiberg / 404media - “This would do immediate and irreversible harm to our readers and to our reputation as a decently trustworthy and serious source,” one Wikipedia editor said.
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