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New York Times and Other Outlets Sue Brave Over Scraping
New York Times and Other Outlets Sue Brave Over Scraping: 1 development on one day since 2 November 2026. Latest development, 2 November 2026: The New York Times sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
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The New York Times and other newspaper companies have sued Brave Software, the maker of the Brave browser, in US District Court for the Southern District of New York. They allege that Brave illegally bypasses paywalls and sells the resulting news content to AI companies. The Times's complaint calls Brave the "supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content" and names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere among its AI customers. The Times has asked for a permanent injunction to stop the alleged conduct. A separate, similar suit was filed in the same court by the companies behind the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel. The suit targets two parts of Brave's business. The Times says AI companies pay Brave for real-time content from its search index, which they use to train models, to answer specific user queries, or both. It points to Brave's own website, which says the Brave Search API is used by Cohere, Mistral, Perplexity, and You.com. The Times also says the browser blocks ads that would normally appear on its site and shows Brave's ads instead, offering users a share of the revenue. According to the complaint, that cuts into the advertising income that helps pay for producing journalism. The ad-replacement feature is enabled by default but can be turned off. The case adds to a string of legal fights between the Times and AI companies. It sued Perplexity in December 2025, alleging that the company's AI tool produces outputs identical or substantially similar to Times articles, including verbatim or near-verbatim reproductions. It sued OpenAI and Microsoft in December 2023, alleging that OpenAI trains its AI on stolen news content. Perplexity is not a defendant in the Brave case, but it accused the Times of "disinformation" without pointing to specific inaccuracies. In its own case, it has argued that an AI tool automatically fetching content on request is not "volitional conduct." Brave had not responded to a request for comment.
Read at the sourceNew York Times and Other Outlets Sue Brave Browser Over Alleged Content Scraping
The New York Times sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, in federal court in Manhattan on Monday.
Also on our radar New York Times and others sue Brave over AI scraping, paywall bypass The Verge
The New York Times and several other publications have sued Brave Software, the company behind the Brave web browser, accusing it of unlawfully scraping their websites to train AI and of letting users bypass their paywalls. Reuters reported the lawsuits. In a complaint from the companies that run the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel, the publishers say Brave never asked permission to access their sites, copy their material, or pass it on to users or other AI companies. The complaint targets how Brave makes money from its index, a large database of scraped web pages. According to the filing, Brave sells AI companies paid access to "real-time online content from the Brave Index." Those companies then use it to train their models, to answer specific user queries, or both. The complaint lists Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere among the AI companies involved. The publishers also say Brave has taken steps that keep them from blocking its access to their sites. A New York Times spokesperson, Graham James, said the suit aims to hold Brave accountable for "stealing our content to power its own products" and supplying it to some of the most prominent and well-resourced generative AI companies. Brave, Anthropic, Mistral, and Cohere did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Perplexity's chief communications officer, Jesse Dwyer, told The Verge that the Times is "overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists," and he described the suit as containing disinformation.
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Oesnada, "New York Times and Other Outlets Sue Brave Over Scraping", https://oesnada.com/storylines/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-brave-over-scraping, accessed 3 November 2026.