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Reddit IPO Filings Reveal the Company’s Hopes—and Fears

Reddit’s stock market debut expected on Thursday has been a long time coming. The ad-supported home of over 100,000 forums first announced its intention to go public in December 2021. Over the...

Reddit’s Sale of User Data for AI Training Draws FTC Inquiry

Reddit said ahead of its IPO next week that licensing user posts to Google and others for AI projects could bring in $203 million of revenue over the next few years. The...

Google Used a Black, Deaf Worker to Tout Its Diversity. Now She’s Suing for Discrimination

Jalon Hall thought she was being scammed when a recruiter reached out on LinkedIn about a job moderating YouTube videos in 2020. Months after earning a master’s degree in criminal justice, her...

Google’s Deal With Stack Overflow Is the Latest Proof That AI Giants Will Pay for Data

Last year Stack Overflow became one of the first websites to announce it would charge AI giants for access to content used to train chatbots. Now the popular Q&A service for coders...

Google Tweaked Search to Comply With EU Rules. Yelp Says It Makes Results Even More Unfair

To comply with looming rules that ban tech giants from favoring their own services, Google has been testing new look search results for flights, trains, hotels, restaurants, and products in Europe. The...

Reddit’s IPO Filing Is Missing Something: Cofounder Alexis Ohanian

Reddit cofounders Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian spent about eight straight years living together, initially as college roommates, playing World of Warcraft late into the night and later working together on the...

This Tiny Website Is Google’s First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars

A trio of Google engineers recently came up with a futuristic way to help anyone who stumbles through presentations on video calls. They propose that when algorithms detect a speaker’s pulse racing...

Gemini Advanced Is a Central Part of Google’s Subscription Future

Google got to where it is mostly by offering free services stuffed with ads, but it has increasingly experimented with a different business model: selling subscriptions for extra perks. Its first subscription...

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