NYT and publishers sue Brave over AI content scraping

The New York Times filed a federal lawsuit in Manhattan against Brave Software on 2 November 2026. Subsequently, publishers of the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel initiated a separate suit. Both legal actions target a commercial web content index of over 30 billion entries that Brave allegedly sold to AI companies. The publishers claim their reporting was scraped and utilized without permission or payment, marking a major copyright confrontation within the AI data economy.