According to @CNBC, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said the company "sees both sides" of lawsuits targeting AI firms for data scraping, signaling a balanced stance toward content owners and model developers, in comments highlighted on Oct 30, 2025. Source: CNBC. Reddit has monetized its corpus via licensing, including a deal with Google reported at about $60 million per year, creating a recurring high-margin revenue line that traders track for RDDT. Source: Reuters. Reddit also announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate Reddit content into ChatGPT and provide API access for model training, reinforcing the strategic value of first-party data for AI. Source: Reddit Inc. (company blog/IR). Ongoing cases such as The New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft challenge the use of copyrighted material in training datasets and highlight legal risk around unlicensed scraping, a headline factor for AI-exposed equities. Source: The New York Times court filing; Reuters. Data licensing is disclosed as a revenue stream in Reddit’s SEC filings, making litigation outcomes directly relevant to RDDT’s revenue mix and potential pricing power for future content deals. Source: Reddit S-1/SEC filing. For mega-cap AI players, greater licensing requirements or adverse rulings would raise data acquisition and compliance costs that flow through to model training economics for GOOGL, MSFT, and META, which equity traders monitor as margin risk. Source: U.S. Congressional Research Service (Generative AI and Copyright). In crypto, AI-linked tokens such as RNDR and FET have shown sensitivity to major AI headlines, making this legal overhang a relevant thematic risk for the AI narrative in digital assets. Source: Kaiko Research.