Wikipedia has always run on volunteer power and idealism. Now it’s running into A.I.’s bottomless appetite. In candid ...

Wikipedia, the “encyclopedia anyone can edit”, is a fundamental training and reference data set for large language models (LLMs). As LLMs grow in popularity, Wikipedia’s content — both ...

A temporary blackout of PubMed has researchers concerned over the database’s future. Plus, a bird’s nest offers a time capsule of plastic rubbish.

PubMed is a critical resource for biomedical research, housing over 37 million citations from MEDLINE and other sources, and serving as a cornerstone for researchers, physicians, and the public.

A temporary outage of the US-government-funded PubMed database of biomedical literature over the weekend sent many researchers globally into a panic. Although the disruption does not seem to have ...