Brave browser lawsuit: NYT sues over AI content scrape
The New York Times and three other US newspapers accuse Brave of building a vast web index, selling access to AI firms, and offering a paywall blocker without publishers’ consent.
The New York Times sued Brave Software in Manhattan federal court on Monday, 2 November 2026, over alleged copyright scraping.
The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day.
Publishers say Brave’s index covers more than 30 billion pages and was sold to AI firms including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
The complaints also challenge a Brave paywall-blocker feature and ad blocking while Brave sells its own ads.
The Times seeks an injunction and damages; Brave had not immediately commented.