GoKawiilNYT, Daily News, Tribune and Orlando Sentinel sue Brave over AI scraping, paywall bypass
The New York Times and a group of publishers including the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel have filed lawsuits against Brave Software. The complaints allege Brave scraped their websites without permission, sold access to its content index to AI firms such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, and built a browser feature that lets users bypass publisher paywalls.