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Publishers sue Brave, casting the browser as a fence for scraped news

The New York Times sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court on Monday, alleging the browser's index of more than 30 billion pages was copied without permission and sold to AI developers including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a parallel complaint the same day. Both suits also target Brave's paywall-bypass feature and seek injunctions and damages; none of the AI companies named is a defendant.

By News Desk · Edited by Editorial Desk · Tuesday, 3 November 2026

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