New York Times and other outlets sue Brave over alleged content scraping feeding Anthropic and Perplexity
TechCrunch AI · rss · 2026-11-03
Per TechCrunch, The New York Times and other outlets are suing privacy-focused browser company Brave, alleging it scraped copyrighted content and unlawfully distributed it to its own customers — including Anthropic and Perplexity.
Notably, the target is not a model trainer but an intermediary in the AI data supply chain, marking another escalation in publisher lawsuits over AI data.
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