The New York Times and three other newspapers sue Brave, saying it sold their journalism to AI companies

The New York Times sued Brave Software in federal court in Manhattan on 2 November, TechCrunch reported. The publishers of the Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed a separate suit, The Next Web reported.

TechCrunch reports that the Times says Brave built an index of more than 30 billion web pages with an unidentified crawler, and distributed the paper's copyrighted content to customers the suit names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere. The Times likens Brave to a “supplier, dealer, and distributor of stolen copyrighted content”, TechCrunch reported. The suits also take aim at a Brave feature that gets around paywalls, and at Brave blocking publishers' ads while selling its own. The Times asks for an injunction and damages.

The Daily News, one of the plaintiffs, reported that its complaint gives an example in which Brave's “Ask Brave” chatbot listed the titles of 35 articles that had appeared in the paper that day. It says the AI companies are not defendants.

Brave did not immediately respond to TechCrunch. The complaints themselves could not be opened from here.

• Reported The Times sued Brave in federal court in Manhattan, seeking an injunction and damages, and names Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere as Brave's customers, TechCrunch reported. TechCrunch
• Reported The Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a separate suit the same day, The Next Web reported. The Next Web
• Claimed The Daily News says “Ask Brave” listed the titles of 35 of its articles from that day. New York Daily News, via The Spokesman-Review