New York Times and three other papers sue Brave over AI scraping

The New York Times sued Brave Software in federal court in Manhattan on 2 November, and the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day, TechCrunch reports. The Times alleges that Brave scraped its copyrighted articles and passed them to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and that Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages with an unidentified crawler that publishers could not block. The suit also objects to a Brave browser feature that bypasses paywalls and to Brave blocking publishers' ads while selling its own. These are the plaintiffs' allegations and are unproven; the Times seeks an injunction and damages, and Brave had not responded when TechCrunch published.