( June 1, 2026, 3:23 PM EDT) -- Over the last month, authors and other rights holders filed five federal lawsuits targeting artificial intelligence companies. In one of the most recent actions, Cable News Network Inc. (CNN) sued Perplexity AI Inc. claiming that the company’s bot unlawfully scrapes news stories and that its “answer engine” then outputs repackaged but nearly verbatim versions of original, copyrighted works....