The New York Times has filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court accusing AI startup Perplexity of copying and distributing its articles without permission. The suit alleges that Perplexity’s crawlers deliberately ignored technical safeguards, such as robots.txt, to harvest content that the Times says is reproduced verbatim or in substantially similar form. The legal action follows earlier cease‑and‑desist notices and comes amid a broader wave of publisher lawsuits targeting AI firms for alleged copyright violations. Leer más →

Amazon has sent a cease‑and‑desist letter to Perplexity, demanding that its AI‑powered shopping assistant, Comet, be removed from the Amazon marketplace. The e‑commerce giant warned that the bot violates its terms of service by failing to identify itself as an agent. Perplexity responded with a blog post defending its approach, arguing that the bot operates under human direction and therefore should inherit the same permissions as the user. Amazon countered that other third‑party agents openly identify themselves and that Perplexity could simply comply. The dispute revives earlier controversy over Perplexity’s web‑scraping practices and raises broader questions about the future of agentic AI on commercial platforms. Leer más →