Skip to navigationSkip to main contentSkip to right columnADVERTISEMENTRich DupreyFri, July 31, 2026 at 10:06 PM GMT+2 4 min readThe artificial intelligence boom has rewarded companies that own valuable data, but it is also rewriting the ways in which people discover information online. AI-powered search summaries (or AIO - Artificial Intelligence Overview) are increasingly answering questions before users ever visit the websites that created the content.That has become a growing challenge for publishers, forums, and social media platforms that depend on traffic to build loyal audiences and sell advertising. Reddit (RDDT) was one of the biggest winners after licensing its massive archive of discussions to Alphabet's (GOOG) (GOOGL) Google. Its second-quarter earnings suggest the relationship may be more complicated than investors first believed.More News from Barchart