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 ...

Hundreds of millions of people are turning to chatbots to help figure out what's wrong with them. Doctors say that's not ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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

Wikipedia currently contains over 7.1 million entries in English alone. Image: Popular Science composite by Tag Hartman-Simkins. Source: HBO; Allison Robbert / AFP via Getty Images; Max ...

A brisk theatrical thriller, “Data” perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their potentially totalitarian projects.

The founder of the platform says large language models have been ‘hammering’ Wikipedia’s servers and AI companies should “chip in and pay fair share”. The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has announced ...