Wall Street Journal and New York Post for a copyright infringement lawsuit filed this week. "The lawsuit reflects an adversarial posture between media and tech that is—while depressingly familiar—fundamentally shortsighted,

Perplexity said on Thursday the allegations of copyright infringement in a lawsuit filed by Dow Jones and the New York Post were misleading, and vowed to defend itself.

In a copyright suit, News Corp titles say the AI firm is stealing content and revenue. News Corp is asking the court to block its use of the material.

It marks the latest chapter in the ongoing battle between tech giants and media companies over the use of copyrighted content to train AI systems.

Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas was "surprised" by a lawsuit from media baron Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones and the New York Post against the search startup, he said at the WSJ Tech Live conference on Wednesday.

News Corp's Dow Jones & Co. and the New York Post have sued AI startup Perplexity, alleging copyright infringement.

Media baron Rupert Murdoch's Dow Jones and New York Post filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI on Monday, claiming the AI startup engages in a "massive amount of illegal copying" of their copyrighted work.

The Wall Street Journal's parent company, Dow Jones, and the New York Post are suing AI-powered search startup Perplexity for using their content to train its large language models. Both News Corp. publications are accusing Perplexity of copyright infringement for using their articles to generate answers to people's queries,

In addition to accusing Perplexity of reproducing some content “verbatim,” News Corp also claims Perplexity can falsely attribute facts and analysis to the company’s outlets

Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success.