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VP Kamala Harris is on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, FEMA has a page dedicated to fighting the rumors circulating on social media about the hurricanes, and now the White House is on Reddit. I...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/08/the-white-house-joins-reddit-and-shares-hurricane-information/

Last year, while opposing Reddit’s API changes, a large number of subreddits turned from public to private or turned NSFW (Not Safe for Work) to impact ads on the platform. To prevent this kind...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/30/reddit-communities-will-require-permission-while-going-private-or-switching-to-nsfw/

Reddit is bringing machine learning-powered translations to more than 35 new languages, including Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use onl...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/25/reddit-is-bringing-ai-powered-automatic-translation-to-dozens-of-new-countries/

Reddit’s mobile and web applications went down on Wednesday afternoon, with more than 150,000 users reporting outages on Downdetector as of 1:30 p.m. in San Francisco. When trying to access Red...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/reddit-back-online-after-a-software-update-took-it-down/

Reddit users will soon see AI-generated summaries at the top of search results.  Reddit co-founder and CEO Steve Huffman told investors during its earnings call on Tuesday that the company plans...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/reddit-ai-powered-search-results/

code references found in the X iOS app indicate that the company could be considering adding downvotes for replies only to improve how they're ranked. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/02/x-weighs-adding-a-downvote-button-to-replies-but-it-doesnt-want-to-emulate-reddit/

Reddit is taking a stand against AI companies — or at least asking them to pay up. Earlier this week, Reddit announced that it’s changing its Robots Exclusion Protocol, also known as its robo...

https://techcrunch.com/video/techcrunch-minute-reddit-is-taking-a-stand-against-ai-crawlers/

Reddit says the update shouldn't affect the majority of users or good faith actors, like researchers and organizations, such as the Internet Archive. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. Fo...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/25/reddits-upcoming-changes-attempt-to-safeguard-the-platform-against-ai-crawlers/

Last week was a big one for AI news, and one thing that stood out to us was OpenAI’s deal with Reddit. Per the terms of the deal, OpenAI will get to use content from Reddit like posts and repl...

https://techcrunch.com/podcast/maven-gets-rid-of-likes-reddit-teams-up-with-openai/

OpenAI has reached a deal with Reddit to use the social news site’s data for training AI models. In a blog post on OpenAI’s press relations site, the company said that the Reddit partnership ...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/openai-inks-deal-to-train-ai-on-reddit-data/

Reddit announced on Wednesday that it is reintroducing its awards system after shutting down the program last year. The company said that most of the mechanisms related to awards will remain the ...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/16/reddit-reintroduces-its-awards-system/

As part of the update, Reddit also launched a dedicated AMA tab within the web post composer. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/reddit-new-ask-me-anything-features/

The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and othe...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/09/reddit-locks-down-its-public-data-in-new-content-policy-says-use-now-requires-a-contract/

Reddit — now a publicly-traded company with more scrutiny on revenue growth — is putting a big focus on boosting its international audience, starting with francophones. In their first-ever ea...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/reddit-tests-automatic-whole-site-translation-into-french-using-llm-based-ai/

As a TikTok ban gets closer to becoming a reality in the United States, it might be time to start thinking about other platforms to adopt early in case you need to fill the void left by the popul...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/tiktok-ban-alternatives-youtube-shorts-reddit-others/

The company is launching a new unified media player, along with instant comment loading and a direct shortcut to conversations. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/24/reddit-is-making-it-easier-to-navigate-conversations-on-its-mobile-apps/

It’s a big year for Reddit. After its IPO, the platform is planning a slew of product features for the year ahead, and — spoiler alert — most of them are powered by AI. “I think the IPO w...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/17/reddit-cpo-talks-new-features-better-translations-moderation-and-dev-tools/

In the generative AI boom, data is the new oil. So why shouldn’t you be able to sell your own? From Big Tech firms to startups, AI makers are licensing e-books, images, videos, audio and more f...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/13/vana-plans-to-let-users-rent-out-their-reddit-data-to-train-ai/

Shares of social forum giant Reddit closed its first day of trading at $50.31, up nearly 48% from its IPO price of $34 per share. The company had indicated a target range of $31 to $34 per share ...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/21/reddits-ipo-shares-soaring/

Reddit priced its stock on Wednesday at $34 a share, the top of the anticipated range, a signal that investors are excited about the company’s IPO on Thursday. The social media giant raised nea...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/20/reddit-prices-ipo-at-34-per-share-the-top-of-the-range/