{"type":"post","id":"the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3","slug":"the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3","title":"The New York Times sues Brave Software, alleging it scraped Times journalism and sold it to AI companies via the Brave Search API","description":"The New York Times and other publishers have sued Brave Software, alleging that it scraped their journalism, sold AI companies access to its index, and enabled readers to bypass paywalls.","retrieval_nugget":"The New York Times and other publishers have sued Brave Software, alleging that it scraped their journalism, sold AI companies access to its index, and enabled readers to bypass paywalls. The allegations put both content acquisition and downstream access in dispute—issues that matter to teams building AI products on web data.","published_at":"2026-11-03","updated_at":"2026-11-07","record_date":"2026-11-03","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["anthropic"],"entities":["The New York Times","Brave Software","Brave Search API","Anthropic","Perplexity","Mistral","xAI","Cohere"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"same_event","prior_refs":[],"source_url":"https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/brave-lawsuit-ai-scraping-new-york-times","source_urls":["https://www.theverge.com/tech/1024588/brave-lawsuit-ai-scraping-new-york-times"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/the-new-york-times-sues-brave-software-alleging-be3ae3.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/anthropic/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/anthropic/","title":"Anthropic","reason":"Explore the anthropic topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/anthropic.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/anthropic.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}