Judge Critiques Perplexity AI’s Efforts to Ditch Dow Jones Suit

A judge cast doubt on Perplexity AI Inc.'s arguments that her Manhattan federal court lacks personal jurisdiction over the AI company in a copyright lawsuit brought by the publishers of the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.

The AI startup fielded Judge Katherine Polk Failla’s questions during an hourlong hearing Tuesday about whether the US District Court for the Southern District of New York can hear the case accusing it of feeding news publishers’ original content into a database, resulting in AI outputs that regurgitated articles from outlets published by Dow Jones & Co. and NYP Holdings Inc. Perplexity ...