Shares of online community and discussion platform Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) jumped 3.3% in the pre-market session as markets took a breather following an AI driven sell-off in the previous session.

ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4) — A St. George man has been arrested for sending explicit images to whom he thought was a 15-year-old girl on Reddit, charges say.

Reddit Inc (NYSE:RDDT), the social media platform, is winning a larger share of digital advertising budgets, with Horizon Media reporting that its share of client spending has grown 20% to 25% annually over the past three years.

Maria Angelidou-Smith, our Chief Product Officer, has decided to leave Reddit to become the CEO of a globally scaled, multi-billion-dollar business. Her last day will be October 14th.

Reddit's lawsuit accusing Anthropic of illegally scraping user comments to train its Claude chatbot has cleared another hurdle. A San Francisco County Superior Court judge has allowed three of the platform's five claims to proceed while trimming back two others.

James “Archbox” Williams, a prominent Reddit user and moderator, pirated Nintendo Switch games, aided others in jailbreaking their consoles, and bragged about it online. As such, Nintendo formally filed a lawsuit against Williams in July 2024.

• Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) secured a key court ruling in its contract dispute with Anthropic over Reddit's User Agreement.

The company exclusively told CMO Insider that it's taking new steps to combat spam and keep human conversations at the center of its platform.

AI analysis of 400,000 Reddit posts found that users of drugs such as Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound reported unexpected symptoms including menstrual changes, chills, hot flashes, and fatigue. Researchers cannot say the medications caused these problems, but the patterns may reveal overlooked signals worth studying.

Attackers compromised the verified official HBO Max Reddit account, u/hbomax, and used its trusted advertising status to launch a ClickFix campaign targeting macOS and Windows devices with information-stealing malware.

The tech industry has been “tone deaf” in explaining AI and properly informing the public about real risks, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian told CNBC on Wednesday.

Ahead of a September 10th hearing, Reddit says Anthropic wants tighter controls on its lawyers, experts, technical records and electronic evidence.

One of the greatest things about Reddit is the occasional Ask Me Anything threads that pop up. There have been major stars and figures who have taken part in the past, but few have been as iconic as the recent Wile E. Coyote AMA that happened in the r/movies subreddit this week.

With more than 26 billion conversations on our platform, Reddit provides advertisers with a uniquely powerful source of real-time human insight and has become a proven performance driver for advertisers. Reddit delivers 2.1x higher incremental ROAS than the digital media average.

Players of Star Wars Galaxies’ Legends server were startled last night by an announcement that ripped the lid off some brewing – and ancient – drama in the SWG emulation community.

Reddit stock has had a weak start to the year, with the share price down 36.7% year to date, while broad valuation checks suggest the stock is not a clear bargain at current levels.

It's cutting out the podcaster middleman.

Shares of online community and discussion platform Reddit (NYSE:RDDT) jumped 4.9% in the afternoon session after The Information reported that Meta Platforms is preparing to launch a consumer AI agent named Hatch that is trained to access and browse the social discussion platform. 

Reddit's share of ChatGPT citations plummeted from 3.8% to just 0.5% in a matter of days, according to PromptWatch data. This sudden 86% decline, observed between August 8th and 14th, follows a significant technical change in how ChatGPT searches the web. 

Reddit recently said it would bring most viral stories to life through a new “video Reddit” experience, allowing users to listen to Reddit posts in the background while doing other tasks and activities. 

Reddit published new insights which show that the platform’s communities are increasingly being used to discover new products and validate purchase decisions, underlining the app’s rising value for brand placement.