New York Times Sues Brave Browser Over AI Scraping Paywalls

The New York Times and a group of publishers sued Brave Software on November 2, 2026, alleging the browser maker systematically scraped copyrighted articles without consent and sold access to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. The complaint also targets Brave's "Paywall blocker" feature, which grants access to hundreds of publishers without subscriptions. Publishers say Brave ignored repeated demands to stop and engineered crawlers to evade technica