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Reddit Sues Perplexity for Scraping Its Data 😱
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Gina Acosta
October 23, 2025
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The social media platform reportedly used a clever tactic to catch Perplexity in the act and is now seeking a permanent injunction along with financial damages.
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Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Alleged Data Scraping
Anthropic Upgrades Claude Memory for Paid Users
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PERPLEXITY
Reddit Sues Perplexity, Others Over Alleged Data Scraping
Reddit is suing companies SerApi, OxyLabs, AWMProxy, and Perplexity for allegedly scraping its data from Google Search results and using it without a license.
Details:
The lawsuit states that Reddit set a trap for Perplexity by creating a “test post” that “could only be crawled by Google’s search engine and was not otherwise accessible anywhere on the internet.”
Within a few hours, queries made to Perplexity’s answer engine reproduced the content of the post.
The other three defendants had allegedly been collecting Reddit data through Google Search results to resell it to AI companies such as OpenAI and Meta. Perplexity was reportedly buying that data from at least one of them as well.
Reddit is seeking a permanent injunction against the companies, financial damages, and a prohibition on the use or sale of any previously scraped Reddit data.
Reddit’s growing repository of data has become a valuable commodity for AI labs, having already inked deals with OpenAI and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to license its data for training purposes despite backlash from some of its user base. This is also not the first time Reddit has taken legal action to protect its data, as it sued Anthropic earlier this year over similar scraping allegations.
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ANTHROPIC
Anthropic Upgrades Claude Memory for Paid Users
Anthropic is upgrading Claude with persistent memory for paid users so it can recall details from past chats without being prompted.
Details:
Memory shows the exact items Claude remembers rather than vague summaries, and users can toggle, edit, or delete specific memories using plain language controls.
You can create separate “memory spaces” to keep work and personal contexts apart, helping prevent bleed-through across projects and chats.
Anthropic has also added an easy way to import “your memory” from rival chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini.
Max subscribers can enable Claude’s “memory” in their settings starting today, while Pro users will see the feature roll out "over the coming days."
The feature brings Claude closer to ChatGPT and Gemini, which added memory last year, although it’s not yet known whether Anthropic plans to make the feature available to free users in the future.
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