AI startup Perplexity says Dow Jones badgered its bot in copyright infringement court fight

Aravind Srinivas, the CEO of Perplexity.

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• The $20 billion AI startup Perplexity filed a motion in its ongoing legal battle with Dow Jones.
• Perplexity argues Dow Jones "cherry-picked" responses from its search engine to support its lawsuit.
• The lawsuit is becoming a flash point in the clash between chatbot developers and publishers.

Perplexity is escalating its legal row with the publishers of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post...