2025-09-10
Reddit, Yahoo, Medium and more are adopting a new licensing standard to get compensated for AI scraping
With web publishers in crisis, a new open standard lets them set the ground rules for AI scrapers. (Or, at least it will try.) The new Really Simple Licensing (RSL) standard creates terms that participants expect AI companies to abide by. Although enforcement is an open question, it can't hurt that some heavy hitters back it. Among others, the list includes Reddit, Yahoo (Engadget's parent company), Medium and People Inc.
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Reddit sues Perplexity and three other companies for allegedly using its content without paying
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Reddit is restricting its availability to the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine
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Reddit is going to be leaning even harder into search in the coming months. The company has already been working on a plan to integrate its LLM-powered search into its main search feature, but CEO Ste [...]
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GitHub leads the enterprise, Claude leads the pack—Cursor’s speed can’t close
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