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BBC threatens legal action against AI start-up Perplexity over content scraping, FT reports

By Thomson Reuters Jun 19, 2025 | 11:19 PM

(Reuters) -UK broadcaster BBC is threatening legal action against AI search engine Perplexity, as it seeks to crack down on tech companies scraping its vast content archives to train artificial intelligence models, the Financial Times reported on Friday.

Reuters could not immediately verify the report.

(Reporting by Devika Nair in Bengaluru; Editing by Tasim Zahid)