NYT demands Brave shut down its paywall blocker and end deals with AI firms

The New York Times and other newspaper companies sued Brave Software, alleging the browser maker illegally bypasses paywalls and sells stolen news content to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The suit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, accuses Brave of direct, contributory, and vicarious copyright infringement and of violating the DMCA by circumventing paywall access controls. It also claims Brave's browser blocks ads on The Times's site and shows its own instead, depriving the publisher of digital advertising revenue.