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The New York Times and other publishers sue Brave over scraping to train AI and over bypassing paywalls

According to The Verge (with Reuters), The New York Times and a group of publications sued Brave Software for illegal scraping to train AI and for letting users bypass paywalls. In a complaint from the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel, Brave allegedly monetized the index of scraped sites by selling AI companies paid access to “real-time online content” from the Brave Index — to train models, answer queries, or both. The complaint cites Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere among those said to have received content. The browser also promotes a “Paywall blocker.” Times spokesman Graham James said Brave “ignored repeated requests” to stop; Perplexity pushed back with a critique of the Times's lawyers. Brave, Anthropic, Mistral, xAI and Cohere did not immediately respond to The Verge.