Reddit's stock fell 30% Friday, its worst single-day decline since going public in 2024, after the company guided fourth-quarter sales to $1 billion-$1.03 billion, below Wall Street's $1.05 billion estimate. The forecast came despite Reddit beating expectations on Q3 earnings and revenue, which grew 53% year-over-year but at a slower pace than prior quarters. CEO Steve Huffman said search-referral traffic from Google declined significantly this quarter due to AI Overviews, and the company announced plans to test requiring logins to view content.
cnbc.com
· 2026-10-30
Vigilance Security researchers say attackers are seeding tens of thousands of web pages, PDFs, reviews and fake support portals with fraudulent phone numbers, emails and login links, aiming to get AI chatbots like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Google AI Overview to surface them as trustworthy answers. The campaign, named Dark Sourcery, has reportedly affected at least 374 companies, including Fortune 100 firms, airlines, banks, travel companies and software providers.
darkreading.com
· 2026-09-23
Developer Niklas Gruhn coined the term 'meat proxy' to describe coworkers who forward unedited chatbot responses instead of engaging with the content themselves. He wrote that receiving these raw AI outputs adds no value, since colleagues could simply query the AI directly. The phrase follows other recent slang like 'clanker' that reflects growing frustration with AI's creeping presence in daily work and communication.
futurism.com
· 2026-08-26
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