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Gabe Kaminsky / The Free Press:
Leaked letter: interim US Attorney for DC Ed Martin accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status   —  In a letter obtained by The Free Press, Trump appointee Ed Martin accuses the Wikimedia Foundation of violating the law.
Apr 25, 2025, 7:15 PMIn context
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training   —  Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that's specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
Apr 17, 2025, 6:35 AMIn context
Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology:
Q&A with Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman about the new Copilot updates, differentiating Copilot from other assistants through personality and tone, and more   —  Suleyman touts new memory, assistive, and research capabilities as Microsoft pushes forward in the crowded personalized AI assistant space.
Apr 4, 2025, 1:00 PMIn context
Margi Murphy / Bloomberg:
Wikipedia editors and administrators detail the turmoil over maintaining neutrality on pages about the Israel-Hamas war and other conflicts in the Middle East   —  Shadow edit campaigns and political disputes have created headaches for overwhelmed editors and administrators.
Mar 9, 2025, 8:35 AMIn context
Emma Roth / The Verge:
DuckDuckGo says AI answers are out of beta and now get info from across the web, not just Wikipedia; setting AI answers to “often” shows them ~20% of the time   —  You can still choose how often you see AI-assisted answers, which now incorporate results from the web.
Mar 6, 2025, 8:15 AMIn context
Benj Edwards / Ars Technica:
A look at WikiTok, a site that lets users vertically swipe through an endless stream of random Wikipedia article stubs without an algorithm that tracks the user   —  On Wednesday, a New York-based app developer named Isaac Gemal debuted a new site called WikiTok, where users can vertically swipe through …
Feb 9, 2025, 9:35 AMIn context
Arno Rosenfeld / The Forward:
Docs: The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer Wikipedia editors who it says are “abusing their position” to publish antisemitic content   —  The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism
Jan 7, 2025, 10:00 PMIn context
Molly White / Citation Needed:
An in-depth look at Elon Musk's criticisms of Wikipedia, as he joins a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking information sources outside their control   —  The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Jan 3, 2025, 3:15 PMIn context
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
How Britannica survived the Wikipedia era by changing itself into a maker of education software and AI agents, as it reportedly weighs an IPO at a $1B valuation   —  The encyclopedia maker could have become a casualty of the Wikipedia era.  But it has remade itself into a digital learning giant that is weighing going public.
Dec 22, 2024, 2:05 AMIn context
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
A look at Chatbot Arena, which now ranks 170+ AI models; the two UCB researchers who launched the project in April 2023 hope to grow it into a Wikipedia for AI   —  Ranking AI is tricky, so two students developed a way to make the best bots battle  —  BERKELEY, Calif.—Record labels have the Billboard Hot 100.
Dec 8, 2024, 2:01 AMIn context

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