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# The New York Times and Tribune newspapers sue Brave for scraping and reselling their articles to AI companies

On Nov 2, 2026 the New York Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan, calling it a 'supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content' whose search index was sold to AI companies the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day.

## Key facts
- Court: federal court in Manhattan (SDNY); injunction and damages sought
- Claims: an index of 30B+ pages built with an unidentified crawler publishers cannot block; a paywall-bypassing browser feature; blocking publishers' ads while selling its own
- AI customers named in the suit: Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, Cohere
- Brave did not immediately comment (TechCrunch); Brave and News Corp have been in litigation since 2025-2026

## What happened

See summary.

## Why it matters

It targets the data supplier behind several AI labs' search grounding rather than the labs themselves.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 186 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 125 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 216 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 155 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [TechCrunch: New York Times and other outlets sue Brave (Nov 2)](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/) (techcrunch.com, press)
2. [The Verge: NYT sues Brave for AI scraping and bypassing paywalls](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/brave-lawsuit-ai-scraping-new-york-times) (theverge.com, press)
3. [Semafor: News Corp accuses Brave of AI copyright infringement (July 2026)](https://semafor.com/article/07/21/2026/newscorp-accuses-search-engine-brave-of-ai-copyright-infringement) (semafor.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-11-03 (filed): Created