Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon

Ars Technica
By Benj EdwardsJan 15, 2026, 3:25 pm103 pts
On Thursday, the Wikimedia Foundation announced licensing deals with Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI, expanding its effort to charge major tech companies for using Wikipedia content to train the AI models that power AI assistants like Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI's ChatGPT. While these same…

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