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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said AI chatbots aren’t a major traffic driver for the social platform despite companies like OpenAI and Google having seen progress in people using AI for search. During Reddit’s Q3 2025 call, the exec noted that Google search and direct access continue to be its top traffic drivers. “[Chatbots are] not a traffic driver today. I …

Shares of Reddit (RDDT) rose slightly in after-hours trading after the social media company reported earnings for its third quarter of Fiscal Year 2025. Earnings per share came in at $0.80, beating analysts’ consensus estimate of $0.53 per share. Sales rose 68% year-over-year, reaching $585 million, which topped forecasts of $549.12 million. Elevate Your Investing Strategy: Take advantage of TipRanks …

Employees at Reddit knew something was wrong. Perplexity — the $20 billion artificial intelligence company that competes with OpenAI and Google — had agreed to follow Reddit’s instructions, blocking it from scraping content from the site, according to a lawsuit Reddit filed Wednesday. But, the lawsuit said, Perplexity continued to cite Reddit in its AI-generated answers — more than ever. …

Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain. Reddit’s lawsuit in a New York federal court takes aim at San Francisco-based Perplexity, maker of an AI chatbot and “answer engine” that …

Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system  Reuters Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Alleged Data Scraping  Bloomberg.com Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft  The New York Times Reddit sues AI search engine Perplexity for scraping its data  Financial Times Reddit drags Perplexity in a new lawsuit, accusing it of building up a $20 billion company off stolen data  businessinsider.com Source link

Reddit is suing Perplexity and three “data-scraping service providers” to “stop the industrial-scale, unlawful circumvention of data protections by a group of bad actors who will stop at nothing to get their hands on valuable copyrighted content on Reddit,” according to the complaint. The company equates the data scraping companies — SerpApi, Oxylabs, and AWMProxy — to “would-be bank robbers” …

Reddit Accuses ‘Data Scraper’ Companies of Theft  The New York Times Reddit sues Perplexity for scraping data to train AI system  Reuters Reddit sues Perplexity, three other firms for stealing data by scraping Google search results (RDDT:NYSE)  Seeking Alpha Reddit drags Perplexity in a new lawsuit, accusing it of building up a $20 billion company off stolen data  businessinsider.com Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over …

We’ve seen artificial intelligence give some pretty bizarre responses to queries as chatbots become more common. Today, Reddit Answers is in the spotlight after a moderator flagged the AI tool for providing dangerous medical advice that they were unable to disable or hide from view. The mod saw Reddit Answers suggest that people experiencing chronic pain stop taking their current …

US Senate hopeful Graham Platner explains old comments on Reddit  newscentermaine.com Maine Senate candidate promoted violent political action in since-deleted online posts  Politico ‘I got older and became a communist’: Deleted posts show Maine Senate hopeful’s raw views on politics, war and police  CNN Graham Platner goes after Janet Mills in first Maine Senate race TV ad  Axios Exclusive: Graham Platner Makes the Case …

In the past four years, the “dead internet theory” emerged as a conspiracy, claiming the online world was being taken over by bots and automatically generated content run by an algorithm that would eventually thwart human activity online and control the global population. According to Alexis Ohanian, investor and Reddit cofounder, there’s some truth to the idea, and a new …