Four US newspapers sue the Brave browser over alleged content scraping

Who is suing

• The New York Times
• The Daily News
• The Chicago Tribune
• The Orlando Sentinel

The New York Times filed one suit Monday in federal court in Manhattan, and three other newspapers filed a similar one the same day.

Pages in the alleged index

30 billion web pages

The suit says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages with an unidentified crawler that publishers could not block.

AI companies named

• Anthropic
• Perplexity
• Mistral
• xAI
• Cohere

It accuses Brave of selling the copyrighted content to AI companies it names as customers: Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.

What the suit seeks

The suit also targets a Brave feature that bypasses paywalls and seeks an injunction and damages; Brave did not immediately respond to a request for comment.