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

Several major news organizations, including The New York Times, The Guardian, and USA Today’s parent company, are blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from crawling their sites. Publishers ...

This is yet another example of the far-reaching nature of the AI-driven component crisis.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet ...

The Wayback Machine only took 148,628 snapshots from those same 100 news websites' homepages between May 17 and Oct. 1, 2025.

Many media sites have blocked the Internet Archive’s ability to capture snapshots of their pages. | Credit: Illustration by ...

The Internet Archive is continuing the recovery process after a series of DDoS attacks that took down its servers in early October. On Monday, the nonprofit digital library posted on X that its 'Save ...

UPDATE: Oct. 24, 2024, 9:52 a.m. PDT This article has been updated to reflect that the full archive appears to be back up. The full Internet Archive is back online — not just the Wayback machine, but ...

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 ...