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November 2, 2026

New York Times and Alden Newspapers Sue Brave Over AI Scraping and Paywall Bypass

The New York Times and three newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital filed federal lawsuits on Monday accusing Brave Software of systematically scraping their copyrighted content, selling it to AI companies, and letting users bypass paywalls through its browser.

October 30, 2026

Mistral Releases Le Chonk: A Trillion-Parameter Open-Weight Model Aimed at Cybersecurity and Sovereign AI

French AI company Mistral has released the weights for Mistral Large 4, a 1-trillion-parameter mixture-of-experts model nicknamed "Le Chonk," making it available for download on Hugging Face and through its API. The release follows a 23-day public preview and three additional…