New York Times Sues Brave Over Scraping 30 Billion Pages for AI
Summary
The New York Times sues Brave, alleging the browser company scraped its copyrighted content and distributed it to AI firms including Anthropic and Perplexity. The suit, filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, claims Brave indexed more than 30 billion pages with an unidentified crawler. The Times seeks an injunction and damages. Brave did not respond.
Key Points
- The Times names Mistral, xAI, and Cohere as customers that received the content, according to the complaint.
- The suit calls Brave a "supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content" for AI companies.
- Daily News, Chicago Tribune, and Orlando Sentinel file a separate lawsuit in Manhattan federal court the same day.