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

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

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The New York Times sued Brave on Monday in federal court in Manhattan, alleging the browser company scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to AI companies named in the suit as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day. The Times seeks an injunction and damages; Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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