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New York Times and other publishers sue Brave over AI scraping and paywall bypass

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The New York Times, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software, alleging the browser maker scraped their content to train AI and let users bypass their paywalls, Reuters reported. The complaint says Brave sold AI companies paid access to its index and names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. An NYT spokesperson said Brave ignored requests to stop. Perplexity's communications chief criticized the suit, according to The Verge.

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New York Times and other publishers sue Brave over AI scraping and paywallsThe Verge · AI

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  1. TechCrunch · AI
    New York Times and other outlets sue Brave over alleged content scraping

    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.

  2. The Verge · AI
    New York Times and other publishers sue Brave over AI scraping and paywalls

    The New York Times and publishers of the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel have sued Brave Software, alleging it scraped their content to train AI and let users bypass paywalls, Reuters reported. The complaint says Brave sold AI companies paid access to its index and names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. An NYT spokesperson said Brave ignored requests to stop; Perplexity's communications chief criticized the suit.

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