{"slug": "perplexity-ai-loses-bid-to-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping", "title": "Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping", "summary": "Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence startup, lost its bid to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Reddit, a social news platform, over allegations that Perplexity scraped Reddit content without permission. The ruling, issued on July 31, 2026, by a U.S. court, allows Reddit's claims of copyright infringement and breach of terms of service to proceed, potentially setting a precedent for AI data-scraping disputes.", "body_md": "Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping-2026-07-31/\n\nComments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132193\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-to-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping", "canonical_source": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping-2026-07-31/", "published_at": "2026-08-01 08:04:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-01 08:22:20.543290+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["Perplexity AI", "Reddit"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-to-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-to-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-to-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/perplexity-ai-loses-bid-to-toss-reddit-lawsuit-over-data-scraping.jsonld"}}