Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster accuse the AI startup of copying their content and attributing hallucinated answers to their brands.

Once an icon of the 20th century seen as obsolete in the 21st, Encyclopaedia Britannica—now known as just Britannica— is all in on artificial intelligence, and may soon go public at a valuation of ...

Obsolete (adj.): no longer in use or no longer useful ...

The digital age has taken its toll on another long-held tradition: Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print and from now on will be all digital. Its final printed product will be the 2010 ...

A GENERAL notice of fifteen volumes of the dimensions of “The Encyclopaedia Britannica” can, at best, be based only on a process of “browsing” through them, and of turning to a subject here and there ...

THE Encyclopædia Britannica is of Scottish birth. Its first edition appears in 1771. Its interesting and rather chequered history occupies some three pages of the present (eleventh) edition, and shows ...