In its latest data-rights battle with the AI industry, Reddit has launched a suit against Perplexity alleging the AI company illegally scraped its users' posts.

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.

Shares of Reddit ( RDDT -0.93%) have soared 160% in the past 12 months, as the social media company proves to be a rising star in the tech world. It's arguably still in the early innings of its growth, however, and investors have been eager to get in relatively early on what could be a much bigger business in the future.

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

The national chair of the Democratic Party says online comments made by a Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, criticize police officers, and express other controversial views were wrong,

Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner (D) said Monday his past Reddit comments were meant “to get a rise out of people.” “That was me trying to get a rise out of people on the Internet,” Platner

One of the byproducts of the chatbot explosion is the world has come to know the value of Reddit. Google inked a $60 million deal to use the platform’s content to train large language models. And everyone else seems to want it too, even if they aren’t ...

A new study has found that artificial intelligence (AI) can now spot signs of depression in online writing, and can do so with high accuracy.