NYT and other publishers sue Brave over paywall bypass and sales of news content to AI firms
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Publishers led by The New York Times have sued Brave Software in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging it bypasses paywalls and resells copyrighted news content via its Brave Search API index to AI firms including Anthropic and Perplexity. The complaint cites third-party estimates that Brave has earned over $100 million from this, and seeks an end to the paywall bypass and to Brave's AI data deals. No CVEs or technical indicators are mentioned, and the article gives no defender actions.
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