New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping

The New York Times sued Brave on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the privacy-focused browser company scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar lawsuit the same day. The Times, which has also sued OpenAI and Perplexity, seeks an injunction and damages, alleging Brave built an index of more than 30 billion webpages and offers a feature that bypasses paywalls.