For years, the volunteer-written encyclopedia that quietly underpins the modern web has been treated as a free buffet by ...

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 ...

Wikimedia is selling enterprise access to Wikipedia to Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, shifting AI firms from scraping to paid ...

As the free online encyclopedia turns 25, it’s facing political opposition, AI scraping, dwindling volunteers, and a public ...

The Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs the site, signed Google as one of its first customers in 2022 and announced ...

Google sued SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented SearchGuard to scrape and resell licensed copyrighted content from Google Search results at scale. Google claims SerpApi built tools ...

SerpApi says it can deliver Google search results for use by AI tools, but Google claims it’s illegally evading bot-blockers to steal copyrighted content. SerpApi says it can deliver Google search ...

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 ...

Protests against Home Depot’s alleged involvement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) worksite raids have taken the form of disruptive “buy-ins” in at least one California store, ...

Wikipedia, the renowned online encyclopedia, has issued a stern appeal to AI companies on November 10, 2025. The nonprofit organization is urging these firms to use its paid API for accessing content, ...

Wikipedia is one of the premier internet institutions, relied on by millions of people worldwide for accurate, up-to-date information. The latest generative AI models also rely on this resource, but ...

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 ...