# Publishers accuse Brave of scraping content and bypassing paywalls for AI firms

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-new-york-times-sues-brave-web-browser-for-ai-scraping-and-bypassing-paywalls/
- Published: 2026-11-02T20:33:24+00:00
- Original publisher: The Verge
- Original article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/brave-lawsuit-ai-scraping-new-york-times
- Topics: AI, Business, Companies, Geopolitics, Politics, Technology

## Key points

- The update clarifies which publications filed one of the lawsuits.
- Publishers accuse Brave of scraping content and enabling paywall bypasses.
- The complaint names five AI companies that allegedly accessed Brave’s index.

## Summary

The updated account clarifies that the lawsuit involving the New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel was filed by the publications themselves, not the companies that run them. Their complaint and a separate suit by The New York Times accuse Brave Software of scraping publishers’ material without permission, selling access to its index to AI firms and helping users bypass paywalls.

The publishers allege that Brave’s index was used to train AI models or answer user queries, and name Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. They say Brave promoted hundreds of publishers as available through its paywall blocker and did not compensate them. The Times says it sued after repeated requests to stop; Brave and several named firms had not immediately commented, while Perplexity disputed the allegations.

## Coverage

- [The Verge: Publishers accuse Brave of scraping content and bypassing paywalls for AI firms](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/brave-lawsuit-ai-scraping-new-york-times)
- [TechCrunch: New York Times and other outlets sue web browser Brave over alleged content scraping](https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/02/new-york-times-and-other-outlets-sue-web-browser-brave-over-alleged-content-scraping/)

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