Gabriel Gomes built an agent that turns plain English into physical experiments, enabling research that humans alone could never sustain ...

"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.

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 ...

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, ...

Dec 9 (Reuters) - Wikimedia Foundation, the operator of Wikipedia, on Tuesday named Bernadette Meehan its chief executive officer, tapping an administrator with deep policy expertise and federal ...

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 ...

New survey data finds that nearly 1 in 5 high schoolers say they or someone they know has had a romantic relationship with artificial intelligence. And 42% of students surveyed say they or someone ...

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 ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...