CNN sues Perplexity AI over mass copyright scraping of 17,000 stories
CNN has filed a federal lawsuit in New York alleging that Perplexity AI unlawfully copied and distributed thousands of its stories, videos and images to power AI search products, with new regional coverage surfacing on May 29, 2026. The complaint claims more than 17,000 CNN works were scraped and reproduced in outputs that are “identical or substantially similar” to the originals.
Source: Investing.com (Reuters)