By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-05-29 02:20:00
CNN today opened a lawsuit against the AI firm Perplexity AI Inc., alleging the company has violated copyright protections by using artificial intelligence to rewrite its reporting, thereby undermining the foundation of its economic model.
The network now joins a long line of publishers that have sued AI firms for copyright infringement. It’s also not the first Perplexity has found itself being sued. The New York Times filed a lawsuit against the company in 2024, and the newspaper also launched similar lawsuits against Microsoft Corp. and Open AI Group PBC.
“CNN’s lawsuit stands for the proposition that Perplexity, a company valued at tens of billions of dollars, should not be able to steal from entities that create the original content Perplexity exploits,” said a CNN spokesperson. “The public rely on high-quality news journalism reported by human beings to understand their world, which is frequently dangerous and expensive to produce. Commercial operators can and must pay to make use of it.”
Perplexity’s Chief Communications Officer Jesse Dwyer countered by saying, “You can’t copyright facts.”
According to the filing lodged with the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, CNN may at first have attempted to strike a content licensing deal with Perplexity, just as several publishers have done over the last few years with various AI companies. Last year, CNN made such an agreement with Meta Platforms Inc.
The lawsuit…
