Social media platform Reddit sued the artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI and three other entities on Wednesday, alleging their involvement in an “industrial-scale, unlawful” economy to “scrape” the comments of millions of Reddit users for commercial gain.

A Domain Name System error that originated from Amazon's largest and oldest data center took down major sites Monday. The outage has been resolved.

Shares of Reddit ( RDDT -0.93%) have soared 160% in the past 12 months, as the social media company proves to be a rising star in the tech world. It's arguably still in the early innings of its growth, however, and investors have been eager to get in relatively early on what could be a much bigger business in the future.

The national chair of the Democratic Party says online comments made by a Senate candidate in Maine in which the candidate appeared to endorse political violence, criticize police officers, and express other controversial views were wrong,

Reddit users aren't exactly known for their calm and measured takes, and this deliciously cheesy debate isn't going to change that reputation anytime soon.