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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Friday, January 16th. I'm Isabel Busquette for the Wall Street Journal.

This week, Wikipedia is turning 25. The world's largest online information resource has seen many technological changes over the years.

But the rise of AI may be its biggest challenge yet. We're taking a look at how it's approaching this latest era.

Then, the largest advanced chip manufacturer in the world is planning a massive U.S. expansion.

We dive into how and why Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, also known as TSM, is expanding its manufacturing footprint in

America amid growing geopolitical tensions with China.

But first, today Wikipedia is among the top 10 most visited websites globally.

Its 65 million articles and over 300 languages are viewed nearly 15 billion times every month.

That's according to the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia.

As part of its 25th anniversary, the nonprofit has announced AI content training partnerships

with major tech companies,

including Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity.

They join existing partners such as Amazon, Google, and Meta.

Our producer, Julie Chang, spoke to the Wikimedia Foundation's chief product and technology officer,

Selena Deckleman, about how Wikipedia is transforming for the Gen.

AI era.

What do these partnerships entail exactly?

About five years ago, we set up a system. It's called Wikimedia Enterprise.

And the intent here was to help companies, mostly commercial companies, but really anybody who wants to use our content at scale to have a more reliable system for accessing that data through APIs.

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