New York Times Sues Brave Over AI Scraping and Paywall Bypass
The New York Times sued Brave on Monday, November 2, 2026, and the target wasn’t a chatbot maker. It was the browser company whose search index quietly feeds them. Filed in federal court in Manhattan, the suit accuses Brave Software of scraping the Times’s copyrighted journalism, building it into a web index of more than 30 billion pages, and selling AI companies paid access to that content. Hours later, the publishers of the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, and the Orlando Sentinel filed a second, similar suit. Together, the cases open a new front in the publishing industry’s fight with AI: not the models that answer questions, but the middlemen that supply the raw material. ...