News Summary

• CNN is suing AI company Perplexity claiming its software generates verbatim copies of its news stories.
• It's the latest example of traditional publishers targeting AI-powered language models surreptitiously trained on their copyrighted material.
• The company has also been sued by The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, Yomiuri Shimbun, and Encyclopedia Britannica.
• The lawsuit claims that "Perplexity unlawfully crawls, scrapes, copies, anddistributes CNN's content from CNN Digital Platforms and third-party platforms"