A key notion of the social web — that user-generated content is free to access, but not necessarily free to take — may be going head-to-head with a mammoth legal test. Earlier this week, Reddit filed ...

Reddit Inc. has launched lawsuits against startup Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping service providers for trawling the company’s copyrighted content to be used to train AI models. Reddit ...

The emergence of AI chatbots like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude and Google's Gemini threaten to inhale vast swaths of data from services like Reddit. Reddit is defending its data. The company ...

Reddit alleged that AI company Perplexity accessed its copyrighted user content through third-party entities that illegally scraped the data off its platform. It comes amid a similar lawsuit from ...

On Thursday, Reddit is rolling out a new policy aimed at balancing its desire to license its content to larger tech companies, like Google, and protecting users’ privacy. The newly announced “Public ...

Reddit is taking four data-scraping companies to court – including AI search engine Perplexity and SEO data firm SerpApi – accusing them of illegally using its content via Google search results. The ...

Reddit has sued Perplexity and data scrapers, accusing them of illegally stealing its data. In the lawsuit, Reddit detailed a trap that it says Perplexity fell straight into. It was the digital ...

In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own? In many cases, the individual creators and owners of that data haven’t seen a dime of the cash changing ...

In a lawsuit, Reddit pulled back the curtain on an ecosystem of start-ups that scrape Google’s search results and resell the information to data-hungry A.I. companies. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San ...

In its lawsuit, Reddit said Anthropic had also declined to enter into a licensing agreement for data and had unjustly enriched itself at Reddit’s expense. By Mike Isaac Reporting from San Francisco ...

Reddit's Q3 showed strong growth (revenue +68% Y/Y, DAUq +47%), turning profitable with $29.9M net income. AI data licensing contributed $33.2M, marking a new revenue stream. While the AI training ...