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Perplexity AI

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Summary

Perplexity AI is a San Francisco-based AI 'answer engine' and, since 2025, an AI-powered web browser called Comet, valued at roughly $20-23 billion as of early 2026. The company faces a large and growing number of copyright and trademark lawsuits from major publishers (Dow Jones/New York Post, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Encyclopaedia Britannica/Merriam-Webster) and platforms (Reddit, Amazon) alleging unauthorized scraping, content reproduction, and covert automated access, alongside independent security research documenting serious prompt-injection vulnerabilities in its Comet browser. No crypto-specific scam activity by the company itself was found, though its brand name is a plausible target for unaffiliated token-impersonation scams common across the AI sector.

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Timeline(11 events)

October 2024

Dow Jones & Company and the New York Post file a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity in federal court in New York.

CourtListener docket / Variety

August 2025

Cloudflare publicly accuses Perplexity of using stealth crawlers and evading robots.txt blocks; de-lists Perplexity as a verified bot.

TechCrunch

August 2025

Brave researchers report the 'CometJacking' indirect prompt-injection vulnerability to Perplexity; Perplexity initially assesses it as having no security impact.

Brave

September 2025

Encyclopaedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster file a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit against Perplexity.

Courthouse News Service

October 2025

Brave discloses additional Comet vulnerabilities involving hidden text in screenshots processed as executable commands.

Brave

October 2025

Reddit sues Perplexity, Oxylabs, AWM Proxy, and SerpApi for alleged industrial-scale scraping of Reddit posts.

CNBC

November 2025

Amazon sues Perplexity, alleging its Comet browser agent concealed its identity to access Amazon accounts without authorization.

Retail Dive / Yahoo News

December 2025

Chicago Tribune sues Perplexity for copyright infringement over alleged reproduction of paywalled articles.

TechCrunch

December 2025

The New York Times sues Perplexity, alleging verbatim reproduction of its journalism and false attribution of hallucinated content.

TechCrunch

March 2026

A federal judge grants Amazon a preliminary injunction blocking Perplexity's Comet agent from accessing Amazon's site.

CNBC

March 2026

Perplexity moves to dismiss the New York Times and Chicago Tribune copyright lawsuits.

National Today
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generated: 9/22/2026, 10:23:01 PM

last updated: 9/23/2026, 2:23:08 AM

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