Perplexity, the $18 billion AI ‘answer machine’, wants to play nice with news publishers. They keep suing it anyway

AI search engine Perplexity is facing a new headache amid its fraught relationship with publishers: another copyright lawsuit. The suit is filed on behalf of two of Japan’s largest media groups, Nikkei and Asahi Shimbun, and accuses the company of copying and storing article content and ignoring a…