Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping

Perplexity AI loses bid to toss Reddit lawsuit over data scraping

By Blake Brittain
Publication Date: 2026-07-31 17:01:00

A Manhattan federal judge on Friday rejected most of Perplexity AI’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by Reddit accusing it of violating U.S. copyright law by ​scraping the online discussion platform’s data to train Perplexity’s AI-powered search engine.