"Depths of Wikipedia Live," which has tour stops in the U.S. and Canada, comes at an inflection point in the 25-year-old site's history.

February 2026 TIOBE Index shows Python still far ahead, C strengthening in second, C# rising, and R holding the top 10 as rankings compress.

Though GPT-4o had a cult following, it allegedly fueled delusions and even suicide. Even CEO Sam Altman thought it was 'annoying.' ...

In some ways, data and its quality can seem strange to people used to assessing the quality of software. There’s often no observable behaviour to check and little in the way of structure to help you ...

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 ...

Wikipedia has signed training deals with a host of major AI companies, helping it recoup some of the exorbitant costs it accrued from being relentlessly pillaged by data scrapers. The companies ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ian Ramjohn remembers the first time he edited Wikipedia. It was 2004, when the site was just three years old, and its information ...

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 ...

On Jan. 15, 2001, the earliest edit found on Wikipedia’s homepage announced, “This is the new WikiPedia!” Twenty-five years later, Wikipedia remains a key source of knowledge on the internet, ...

Wikipedia exists in 357 language editions, but research through machine learning shows that not every one tells the same story. Jo Guldi, a professor, historian, writer and data scientist who teaches ...

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales isn't worried about AI-generated online information ...

On Wednesday, Wikimedia Deutschland announced a new database that will make Wikipedia’s wealth of knowledge more accessible to AI models. Called the Wikidata Embedding Project, the system applies a ...