By Maria Dinzeo ( November 2, 2026, 23:30 GMT | Insight) -- Brave, a privacy-focused browser and AI search company headquartered in San Francisco, is facing a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times and other publishers for allegedly scraping content to fuel its search engine and selling access to copyrighted articles to major AI developers, including Anthropic, Perplexity and Mistral.Brave, a privacy-focused web browser and artificial intelligence search company, has been hit with a pair of copyright lawsuits from a group of news outlets, including the New York Times and Chicago Tribune, for allegedly lifting copyrighted news articles to incorporate into their search engine, and selling access to that content to major AI developers including Anthropic, Perplexity and Mistral....
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