The New York Times and other newspapers sue Brave over scraping for AI
11/03/2026 — 11/03, 02:18·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)·In the 2026-11-03 briefing
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- The New York Times sued Brave Software on Monday, accusing the browser maker of scraping its journalism and selling it to AI companies while…
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On Monday, 2026-11-03, The New York Times sued browser maker Brave Software, accusing it of scraping the newspaper's journalism and selling access to it to AI companies, as reported by The Next Web. Hours later, the publishers of the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate lawsuit with similar allegations. Both cases were brought in federal court.
A separate report by Reuters, carried by The Verge, says the companies operating The New York Times and the three other newspapers claim Brave Software has taken scraped web indexes, offered them on a paid basis to AI companies for training models or answering queries, and supplied 'stolen copyrighted content' to firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The complaint also points to Brave's practice of advertising its paywall-bypass feature as a selling point in the browser. The available coverage does not report any ruling, settlement talks or a public statement from Brave Software in response.
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Latest turnThe New York Times and the publishers of the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel are suing Brave Software, alleging it sold AI companies paid access to an index of scraped pages and let users bypass paywalls, Reuters reported. The complaint names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere as recipients of what it calls stolen copyrighted content.
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The New York Times and the publishers of the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel are suing Brave Software, alleging it sold AI companies paid access to an index of scraped pages and let users bypass paywalls, Reuters reported. The complaint names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere as recipients of what it calls stolen copyrighted content.
The Verge · AIAI score 59The New York Times sued browser maker Brave Software on Monday, accusing it of scraping its journalism and selling access to AI companies. Hours later, the publishers of the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate suit making similar allegations; both cases were brought in federal court.
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