Rupert Murdoch’s Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post sued Perplexity on Monday, accusing the generative AI company of illegally scraping its reporting and diverting traffic to its own platforms.

News Corp’s Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post have sued Perplexity, a startup that calls itself an “AI-powered Swiss Army Knife for information discovery and curiosity,

Dow Jones & Co., parent of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Post, both owned by News Corp., sued the Jeff Bezos-backed generative AI startup Perplexity for copyright infringement, the latest in a stream of lawsuits around artificial intelligence that have met with varying degrees of success.