New York Times sues Perplexity AI over alleged large‑scale copyright violations

The New York Times Company has filed a federal lawsuit against Perplexity AI accusing the startup of copying, distributing and displaying millions of Times articles — including paywalled content — to power its AI search and chatbot products, as well as generating fabricated outputs falsely attributed to the newspaper. The case, joined by a parallel suit from the Chicago Tribune and building on earlier actions by Dow Jones and others, intensifies the clash between news publishers and AI firms over the uncompensated use of proprietary journalism in training and retrieval-augmented systems.