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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman calls site conversations the fuel for AI bots

Paul Hill — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:50:01 +0000

While tech giants spend billions on hardware, Reddit is profiting by licensing its "actual intelligence." Here is how the platform is winning the AI race. Read more...

Reddit is considering using FaceID and passkeys to prove you're a human

Karthik Mudaliar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:56:02 +0000

The "front page of the internet" is considering adding biometric checks, like FaceID, to verify its users are actually humans. Read more...

Brands are infiltrating Reddit to rank better on Google's AI search

Ivan Jenic — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:06:01 +0000

Latest report shows that companies are flocking to Reddit, how will that affect a platform where users are generally against self-promotion? Read more...

Reddit sues Perplexity, accusing the AI lab of using scraped content for training

David Uzondu — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:52:01 +0000

Reddit is taking Perplexity and three data-scraping companies to court, accusing them of collaborating to use Reddit content for AI training without proper authorization. Read more...

Reddit's record profits hide a key challenge in its growth strategy

Paul Hill — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 06:10:01 +0000

Reddit has reported its second quarter earnings for 2025. The company has reported some impressive results, but not without issues. Read more...

Threads is getting a feature Reddit has had for nearly a decade

David Uzondu — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 20:54:01 +0000

Threads is still playing catch-up with features people already expect, and now Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says they're testing one that Reddit users have had for ages. Read more...

Reddit takes legal action, says Anthropic trained Claude on Reddit posts without permission

David Uzondu — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:20:02 +0000

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, the company behind Claude, accusing it of using Reddit data to train its AI models without permission. Read more...

You can now hide your Reddit posts and comments from your profile

David Uzondu — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:24:01 +0000

Reddit has introduced changes to its platform, including a feature that lets redditors choose which posts and comments appear on their public profiles. Read more...

Ideological warfare: Student builds AI tool to de-radicalize extremists on Reddit

David Uzondu — Mon, 19 May 2025 21:18:02 +0000

With AI's influence under scrutiny, a tool has emerged that attempts to de-radicalize radical Reddit users, raising red flags about who decides what 'radical' actually means. Read more...

Science proves some Reddit users just love to troll, disagree and argue

Sayan Sen — Mon, 12 May 2025 14:12:02 +0000

If you have ever had a feeling that some people online simply love to troll, argue and disagree just for the sake of it, you'd be right. And now science has proved it, at least in the case of Reddit. Read more...

Reddit and Google partner up to power Reddit Answers with Gemini on Vertex AI

David Uzondu — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 17:16:01 +0000

At this year's Cloud Next event, Google announced a partnership with Reddit that allows Gemini to power Answers, Reddit's AI search tool launched last year. Read more...

AI-powered answers may soon be part of Reddit's search

David Uzondu — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:06:01 +0000

During its Q4 earnings call, Reddit's CEO shared plans to integrate AI-powered answers with its regular search. Read more...

Reddit announces key filing on the path to a proposed public offering

Paul Hill — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:54:01 +0000

Reddit has filed key documents with the SEC for a proposed public offering. If the SEC approves, then Reddit will be allowed to sell its shares to the public. Read more...

Reddit introduces its AI-powered conversational tool 'Reddit Answers'

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 15:54:01 +0000

Reddit is rolling out its AI-powered conversational tool called 'Reddit Answers' to a limited number of users in the US. Read more...

References to a communities feature discovered in Meta Threads app code

Steve Bennett — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 15:16:01 +0000

Similar to X Communities or Reddit's subreddits, Meta is working on a feature for Threads titled "Loop," as discovered within the app's code. Read more...

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman: Microsoft trained its AI services on its data "without telling us"

John Callaham — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 20:06:01 +0000

In a new interview, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman claims Microsoft previously trained its AI services on data from its site "without telling us", which is why Reddit ended up blocking Microsoft. Read more...

Microsoft Bing and other search engines blocked from accessing Reddit content

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 08:04:01 +0000

Reddit has blocked search engines, including Bing, from crawling its site by updating the robots.txt file. Also, it claims that this change has nothing to do with its recent partnership with Google. Read more...

Reddit partners with OpenAI to bring its data to ChatGPT

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:42:01 +0000

OpenAI can now use Reddit's content for its AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT and future products. The two companies have partnered, and Reddit will also launch AI-powered features for its users. Read more...

Reddit announces Q1 2024 financial results, its first since becoming a public company

Steve Bennett — Tue, 07 May 2024 21:44:02 +0000

Reddit has announced its first quarter 2024 financial results, the first set published since the site went public with an IPO in March this year and is being reported as a "milestone quarter." Read more...

Latest Reddit mobile app update will get you into the comments section even quicker

Paul Hill — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 03:18:01 +0000

Reddit has made some improvements to its Android and iOS mobile apps which make the conversations load faster and work in the same way no matter what the media type of the post is. Read more...

Reddit share price dumps to opening levels following euphoria

Paul Hill — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 12:54:01 +0000

Reddit's share price has tumbled near to where they started last Thursday following a pump from $47 to over $70. Many people had suspected that the stock would pump on the hype before collapsing. Read more...

Reddit's first day as a publicly traded company was a pretty big success

John Callaham — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 22:52:01 +0000

Reddit finally launched its long-awaited IPO today on the New York Stock Exchange at $34 a share. It started trading at $47 and ended the trading day with a share price of 50.44 a share Read more...

Reddit says it is being investigated by the FTC over its AI data licensing programs

John Callaham — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 16:08:01 +0000

Reddit revealed late on Friday that the online forum is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission over its deals to license its data to be used by generative AI companies. Read more...

New report claims Reddit's upcoming IPO will seek a valuation of up to $6.5 billion

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 07:22:01 +0000

A new report claims that Reddit will price its upcoming IPO at $31 to $34 a share. That means the popular community website could have a valuation of up to $6.5 billion when it starts trading. Read more...

Reddit reveals its current financial and user numbers as it prepares to go public

John Callaham — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:08:01 +0000

Reddit made a new filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, revealing its user numbers and financials as it prepares to launch its IPO and sell stock under the name "RDDT.” Read more...

Reddit is reportedly testing in-house developed add-ons made with its Developer Platform

Steve Bennett — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 22:58:01 +0000

Reddit's Developer Platform, which launched in August 2022, has begun to bear fruit as the site has started testing the first add-ons built using it in a handful of communities, and only for mods. Read more...

Reddit will force ad personalization based on your activity, and you can't opt out

Anurag Singh — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 06:56:02 +0000

Reddit is removing the ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity. The change is meant to show you more relevant ads and will rollout to all users, except in select countries. Read more...

Reddit announces Contributor Program, making karma actually mean something

Steve Bennett — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:54:01 +0000

Reddit has announced a new Contributor Program today, which awards cash to users who post quality content on the platform based on the amount of karma and gold that a user earns from their posts. Read more...

Reddit now lets you translate posts into 8 languages

Paul Hill — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 07:56:01 +0000

Reddit has added the ability to translate posts into eight languages. Some of the included languages include English, Spanish, French, and German. It said that comment translations will arrive soon. Read more...

Reddit's new rewards program will give ‘trophies' and ‘flairs' to helpful mods

Anurag Singh — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 08:16:01 +0000

Reddit has launched a new rewards program to acknowledge moderators who offer helpful advice to other moderators. It is a tiered system that rewards moderators with trophies and special flair. Read more...

Reddit has redesigned its website to improve the experience for logged-out users

Omer Dursun — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 12:16:01 +0000

Reddit's latest update enhances the experience for non-logged-in users. It includes a simplified search results page, a more intuitive front page, a sticky sidebar on the desktop, and more. Read more...

Reddit nukes chats and messages from before 2023, but there's a way to download them

Paul Hill — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 05:42:02 +0000

Reddit has recently upgraded its chat infrastructure. Unfortunately, people now have no or limited access to messages before 2023. There is a way to recover them, though. Read on to learn how. Read more...

Elon Musk's rate limit breaks Twitter's own TweetDeck app

Omer Dursun — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 18:06:01 +0000

Twitter has imposed read limits to address data scraping and system manipulation. TweetDeck then faced disruptions due to these limits. Mentions, Likes, and other information appeared blank. Read more...

Reddit AMA mods announce they'll stop coordinating with celebrities

Aditya Tiwari — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 13:20:01 +0000

The mods of the popular subreddit IAmA or Ask Me Anything have announced that among various changes they will stop the solicitation of celebrities and high-profile individuals for AMA sessions. Read more...

Apollo developer requests users to decline refunds, releases Goodbye Apollo wallpapers

Aditya Tiwari — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 11:38:01 +0000

Apollo's developer Christian Selig requested users to decline automatic refunds as the Reddit client prepares for its shutdown. He has released the Goodbye Apollo wallpaper set as well. Read more...

The huge Minecraft subreddit will no longer get any official messages from Mojang

John Callaham — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 15:44:02 +0000

Minecraft's development team at Mojang will no longer post on the Minecraft subreddit, which has over 7 million members, due to Reddit's "rule and moderation changes across many subreddits." Read more...

Reddit claimed to have been hacked by BlackCat, and it has threatened to leak the data

Steve Bennett — Sun, 18 Jun 2023 12:24:01 +0000

Further to Reddit's recent woes since the announcement of the API pricing change, claims have surfaced that it has suffered a data breach at the hands of BlackCat, with 80GB of zipped data taken. Read more...

Reddit releases new fact sheet, says 80% of its top 5,000 communities are open

Aditya Tiwari — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 10:48:02 +0000

According to new stats released by Reddit, the platform is visited by over 57 million daily active users. Also, more than 80% of its top 5,000 subreddits are open amid the ongoing blackout. Read more...

Many Reddit subreddits, including popular Windows communities, are still "dark" right now

John Callaham — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:12:01 +0000

The "dark" protest of many subreddits to protest Reddit's upcoming API price hikes is still going for some forums after the previously planned 48-hour protest time period expired on Tuesday. Read more...

Reddit CEO says like all other blowups this too will pass to employees in an internal memo

Mehrotra A — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 19:00:02 +0000

Reddit CEO sent an internal memo earlier today addressing the ongoing blackout to protest the recent changes in API pricing that could cost third-party developers millions of dollars each month. Read more...