( November 2, 2026, 15:21 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The New York Times has filed copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against Brave Software, accusing the company of playing a "central role" in copying and distributing its content to its users and other artificial intelligence companies, including Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI, and Cohere. Brave "acts both like a burglar that misappropriates the content of publishers, and an AI 'fence' that sells stolen content to third parties," the complaint says. "And the third parties are serving as the knowing receivers of that stolen content, which they have used to build their trillion dollar businesses." See complaint attached. ...
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