Over 241 news sites are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine to prevent AI companies from using archived content for training.

The Internet Archive has been responsible for saving and providing access to trillions of websites over the past 30 years. AI is putting a damper on the organization’s work, as large language models ...

The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is one of the web’s most valuable resources, enabling us to access earlier versions of webpages and websites. It performs an invaluable role in preserving ...

The arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbots has had various impacts on our lives. Nowadays, if you want information about something, you can ask an AI chatbot, and you'll have an answer in ...

When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking. Major ...

As part of its mission to preserve the web, the Internet Archive operates crawlers that capture webpage snapshots. Many of these snapshots are accessible through its public-facing tool, the Wayback ...

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 ...

Last month, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine archived its trillionth webpage, and the nonprofit invited its more than 1,200 library partners and 800,000 daily users to join a celebration of the ...

I am excited to announce the recent integration of AI-driven processes in Special Collections’ digital archiving work alongside the expertise of our very human archivists, librarians, and student ...