This is the Daily Tech News for Friday, December 5th, 2025.

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Today, perplexity gets sued by news companies while meta makes peace with them.

And Netflix is on its way to owning Harry Potter and Game of Thrones.

But not me.

I'm Tom Merritt.

I'm going to swear to hell.

Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.

The fight between makers of generative models and chatbots against news publishers

continues as one of both war and peace.

We start with the war side. The New York Times is suing perplexity

for copyright infringement due to crawling the New York Times website without permission and

allegedly outputting New York Times stories in verbatim or near verbbatim written responses.

Times also alleges that perplexity damaged the Times brand by creating false content attributed to the Times.

So it's saying, and sometimes perplexity just hallucinated things, but said we wrote it when we didn't.

The Chicago Tribune also filed a similar suit against perplexity.

Both these suits refer to Perplexity's chatbots and browsers as retrieval augmented generation or rag products.

So there's a new acronym for you.

Perplexity does have agreements with publishers, including Gannett, Time, Fortune, and the LA Times.

It also offers a revenue sharing plan where it allocates 80% of its $5 monthly fee for the Comet Browser to participating publishers.

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