The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI search company Perplexity, alleging that the firm’s commercial products repurpose the newspaper’s content without permission. The suit claims Perplexity’s retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) technology crawls the web, reproduces articles verbatim or in near‑verbatim summaries, and delivers them to users as its own output. The lawsuit seeks monetary relief and an injunction to stop further use of the Times’ material. The filing follows similar actions by other publishers targeting Perplexity’s practices. Read more →