Perplexity Says Reddit Data-Scraping Claims Not Directed At It

By Elliot Weld ( January 5, 2026, 5:05 PM EST) -- 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....

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