The New York Times sues Brave web browser for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls
The New York Times and other publishers sued Brave Software, alleging it scraped their content to train AI and let users bypass paywalls, including by selling paid access to its Brave Index to AI companies such as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The case matters because it tests whether browser and search-index data built on publishers' work can be monetised for AI without permission or compensation.
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- Hacker News (AI)2026-11-02 18:00