By Carmen Castro-Pagán
Publication Date: 2026-05-28 13:21:00
Cable News Network Inc. hit Perplexity AI Inc. with a lawsuit alleging the artificial intelligence company violated federal copyright law by copying more than 17,000 CNN stories, videos, images, and other content to power its products and tools.
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, says that Perplexity “unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, and distributes CNN’s content” from CNN and third-party platforms to build an AI-First search index to provide CNN’s content in real time as input to LLMs to formulate responses to users’ prompts.
CNN’s lawsuit comes six months after …