Perplexity Says ‘Answers Engine’ Doesn’t Trample Trademark, Copyrights

( April 21, 2026, 12:38 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A quartet of news providers has not shown that automated outputs of an “answers engine” powered by artificial intelligence and retrieval-augmented generation constitute copyright violations or that using tags identifying the source material violates trademark rights, Perplexity AI Inc. tells a federal judge in New York....