News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information ...
The Hill

‘The Internet? Bah!’ Remembering 1995, the year of the world wide web.

It’s now been 30 years since the internet and the world wide web undeniably entered mainstream consciousness. Hints of social media were apparent in 1995 too, notably with the launch of Classmates.com ...
NPR

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them

SAN FRANCISCO — If you've ever clicked on a hyperlink that's taken you to something called the Wayback Machine to view an old web page, you've been introduced to the Internet Archive. The nonprofit, ...
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Russian networks flood the Internet with propaganda, aiming to corrupt AI chatbots

Scientists, policy experts, and artists have been concerned about the unintended consequences of artificial intelligence since before the technology was readily available. With most technological ...
CNN

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are being saved

Just blocks from the Presidio of San Francisco, the national park at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, stands a gleaming white building, its façade adorned with eight striking gothic columns. But ...