July 31, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday largely declined to dismiss Reddit's suit accusing SerpApi of illegally scraping its content to be sold to Perplexity for training its artificial intelligence models.
July 23, 2026
SerpApi, a company that scrapes online content, asked a New York federal judge Thursday to let it out of a copyright lawsuit from Reddit alleging it illegally looted content at the behest of Perplexity for AI training, contending Reddit doesn't own copyrights on the bulk of the user content on its website and that the protective measures the suit alleged were circumvented belong to Google.
May 11, 2026
Artificial intelligence startup Perplexity AI Inc. has told a New York federal court that Reddit Inc.'s amended claims that its content was used illegally to train AI models should be dismissed because they still fail to show that Reddit holds copyrights on the "vast majority" of that content.
April 20, 2026
Reddit Inc. is defending its case accusing Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping companies of circumventing security measures to access copyrighted content in order to train the artificial intelligence startup's "answer engine."
January 05, 2026
Perplexity AI Inc. has told a New York federal judge it should be released from a suit where Reddit Inc. likened the AI startup and three data-scraping companies to bank robbers, saying the social media site had only made allegations of improper data procuring against the scraping companies and not Perplexity itself.
October 22, 2025
Perplexity AI Inc. and three data-scraping companies act like "would-be bank robbers" to bypass Reddit's data security measures and collect users' "continuous stream of real-time and creative copyrighted works" to feed the company's generative text products, Reddit alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in New York federal court.