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The traffic jam

ChatGPT is officially clocking more site visits than Wikipedia in the US

April data is bolstering a viral chart from a few weeks back.

6/4/25 9:02AM

A few weeks ago, a pretty shocking chart about ChatGPT leapfrogging Wikipedia was doing the rounds on social media, leading science and tech site Futurism to declare, “We’re so cooked.”

Though the data behind the viral chart came from survey responses compiled by British market insights agency GWI rather than site visits or page views, the harder data now shows the same result: OpenAI’s chatbot has now overtaken the free online encyclopedia, at least for American users.

ChatGPT and Wiki traffic chart — Sherwood News

According to Similarweb figures, ChatGPT traffic hit a record high in April, as US site visits soared 14% from March to a whopping 780 million. Despite the fact that the figure still pales in comparison to online behemoths like Google, which (as we noted nearer the time) clocked 16 billion visits, it was enough to beat Wikipedia — long seen as one of the go-tos for time-strapped students and people looking to quickly learn a little bit about a lot or fact-check their friends.

Interestingly, Similarweb showed that ChatGPT had fewer than half the number of unique site visitors that Wikipedia notched in April, meaning that the 57.2 million Americans who went to chatgpt.com locked in with the chatbot across ~14 visits each on average.

It’s also worth mentioning that global data for Wikipedia’s English site shows little notable change in total web traffic. Since 2020, the site has averaged 7.55 billion visits; in May, it clocked 7.8 billion.

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Report: SpaceX planning for IPO late next year

SpaceX has told investors that it is planning for an IPO in late 2026, according to a report from The Information.

Elon Musk’s rocket company is in talks for a share sale for employees and investors that would put the company’s valuation at $800 billion, making it the world’s most valuable private company, recapturing that crown from OpenAI.

Per the report, all of SpaceX including Starlink would be listed as one company, rather than spinning off Starlink, which Musk had discussed a few years ago.

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Per the report, all of SpaceX including Starlink would be listed as one company, rather than spinning off Starlink, which Musk had discussed a few years ago.

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What prediction markets think will happen with Apple’s CEO

People inside the company say executive changes are coming, The Information reports.

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The Netflix Effect

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How much could Netflix charge if a subscription included HBO Max?

Here’s what streaming companies, many of which offer streaming bundles, charge now.

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Meta reignites on-again, off-again relationship with news organizations with multiple AI content licensing deals

Meta has a long and tumultuous relationship with news organizations: first flooding them with traffic, then cutting it off; declaring news a priority, then deprioritizing it in people’s feeds; even hiring its own team to curate breaking news before abruptly disbanding it.

Now it seems media companies are back in Meta’s good graces. The social media company has struck a number of content licensing deals with publishers — including USA Today, People, CNN, Fox News, and The Daily Caller — in order to use information from their articles in Meta’s AI tools, Axios reports. The company first inked an AI news deal with Reuters last year.

Meta has been integrating its AI chatbots across its suite of products, and these licensing deals, which the company reportedly plans to expand to more news organizations, will give users better access to real-time information.

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Cloudflare just went down again, but apparently only for 20 minutes this time

Another day, another massive network outage taking down huge sections of the internet... and, once again, the cause of the hiccup was Cloudflare.

On Friday morning, the American IT giant reported that a change made to “how Cloudflare’s Web Application Firewall parses requests” caused its network to “be unavailable for several minutes.”

Roughly 20 minutes later, the company said that “a fix has been implemented,” helping to soothe the stock’s losses after falling as much as 6% in premarket trading, according to Bloomberg. Shares of Cloudflare are trading about 2% lower at the time of writing.

Users reported that sites including LinkedIn, Zoom, Fortnite, Shopify, and Coinbase were all made unavailable by the outage — or at least they would’ve reported that, if Downdetector weren’t also down, per The Verge. Even so, some are still seeing issues as the service supposedly gets back on its feet.

Cloudflare went down only last month, though that time the network was down for roughly three hours and took OpenAI, X, and “League of Legends” with it — and that incident followed in the digitally disruptive footsteps of Amazon Web Services, which saw a major outage in October lasting some 15 hours.