# New York Times Sues Brave Over AI Scraping

> New York Times and publishers accuse Brave of stealing content for AI companies.
- Title: New York Times Sues Brave Over AI Scraping · AI Insider
- Summary: New York Times and publishers accuse Brave of stealing content for AI companies. New York Times and other publishers sued Brave for allegedly scraping…
- Keywords: new york times, brave, ai companies, scraping, lawsuit, anthropic, perplexity, mistral, xai, cohere, copyright, federal court
- Source: AI Insider — https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/11/03/new-york-times-and-other-publishers-sue-brave-over-alleged-scraping-for-ai-companies
- Author: James Dargan
- Published: 2026-11-03T09:05:52+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: new york times, brave, ai companies, scraping, lawsuit, anthropic, perplexity, mistral, xai, cohere, copyright, federal court
## New York Times sues Brave
The New York Times has sued Brave, the privacy-focused browser company founded in 2015, alleging it scraped the newspaper’s copyrighted content and unlawfully supplied it to AI companies including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere.
## Other publishers join suit
The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit on the same day. Both cases were brought in federal court in Manhattan.
## Brave accused of stealing content
The Times describes Brave as a supplier and distributor of stolen copyrighted material for AI firms, likening the company to both a burglar that takes publishers’ content and a fence that sells it on to…
## Key takeaway

New York Times and other publishers sued Brave for allegedly scraping copyrighted content and supplying it to AI firms like Anthropic and Perplexity.