The New York Times and Other Media Outlets Sue Brave Browser Over Alleged Content Scraping and Distribution to AI Companies

The New York Times and several other media organizations have filed a lawsuit against Brave browser in Manhattan federal court, accusing it of illegally scraping copyrighted content and distributing it to AI clients, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The complaint alleges that Brave used unblockable crawlers to compile an index of over 30 billion web pages, while also bypassing paywalls and replacing ads. The New York Times is seeking an injunction and damages; Brave has not yet responded to requests for comment.