Gemini may breach press rights, plus 4 more

Welcome to the DailyAI Briefing, the day’s five biggest AI stories. A top adviser to the EU’s highest court says chatbots like Gemini can break publishers’ rights when they reuse news articles, a day after the New York Times sued Brave for selling its journalism to AI companies. OpenAI promised that families won’t pay for its electricity, it is also offering up to $172,000 for the worst ChatGPT bugs, and new data suggests people who use AI at work are putting in longer days, not shorter ones.

Let’s dig in.

Gemini may breach press rights, says EU court adviser

In the first generative AI case to reach the Court of Justice of the European Union, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar said on Tuesday that a chatbot which fetches a news article, reuses it in an answer and hands that answer to a user “may, in certain circumstances” infringe the publisher’s rights. The case, C-250/25, was brought by Hungarian web publisher Like Company against Google over Gemini answers given between June 2023 and May 2024, according to the court’s press release.

#AG Szpunar: Opinion in Case C-250/25 on whether a chatbot’s retrieval and reuse of a press publication to generate an answer for a user constitutes “reproduction” and “communication to the public” under #EUlaw. #CJEU #AI #Gemini

— EU Court of Justice (@EUCourtPress) November 3, 2026

He drew two lines. A chatbot is on the wrong side if it gets at the article unlawfully, for example by getting round a paywall or anti-scraping measures, or if its answer reuses the article’s wording so recognisably that the reader no longer needs the original. Repeating facts is fine, since facts aren’t protected. On training, he called the questions hypothetical but said using protected material to train a model is “as a rule” allowed under EU law’s text and data mining exception. The opinion isn’t binding, though the court usually follows its advisers. The plain reading: in Europe, the fight is moving from what models learn to what chatbots repeat.

The New York Times sues Brave over AI scraping

More than 30 billion web pages. That is the size of the search index Brave built with a crawler publishers couldn’t identify or block, according to the New York Times’ 72-page complaint, filed in Manhattan federal court on Monday. The Times says Brave sells that content through its search API to AI companies it names as Anthropic, Perplexity, Mistral, xAI and Cohere, none of which are defendants, and that Brave’s browser has a paywall blocker. The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune and Orlando Sentinel filed a similar suit the same day, TechCrunch reported.

New York Times sues maker of Brave web browser over copyrights

— Reuters (@Reuters) November 2, 2026

The Times says it sent Brave’s chief executive Brendan Eich cease-and-desist letters in August 2025 and April 2026 and got no reply. Brave didn’t respond to requests for comment from The Verge, while Perplexity said the Times “is overpaying its attorneys and underpaying its journalists”. Read alongside the EU opinion, the same issue keeps coming up on both sides of the Atlantic: getting past a paywall is what turns reading the news into taking it.

OpenAI says it will pay its own power bill

Up to 1,000 megawatts. That’s how much demand OpenAI’s planned Georgia campus can give back to the grid when it is under strain, under a 25-year contract with Georgia Power, out of an expected load of about 3,200 megawatts. OpenAI has now made that deal the model for a national scheme it calls Grid Protectors, and says “families and small businesses should not be asked to subsidize a compute campus’s electricity needs”.

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There’s no list of new sites, megawatts or dates yet, and the Georgia contract hasn’t been published. The number households will care about comes from the utility, not OpenAI: Georgia Power says its big-customer contracts should save a typical home at least $15 a month from 2029. That’s a forecast, and so far the whole programme rests on one deal. Our deep dive goes through what it means for your bill.

OpenAI will pay up to $172,000 for the worst ChatGPT bugs

A one-click ChatGPT account takeover that used to earn a researcher $6,500 could now pay $51,577 with every bonus stacked, under the bigger bug bounty rewards OpenAI announced on Monday. The top payout for the rarest finds, such as reading any user’s chats, rises to about $172,000. OpenAI is also bringing in Cathedral Systems for its next internal security sprint.

As AI becomes more capable at finding vulnerabilities, defenders need to put it to work before attackers do. We’re planning our next internal security sprint at OpenAI and partnering with Cathedral Systems, whose researchers will use our models alongside our teams to challenge…

— OpenAI November 3, 2026

Cathedral is the start-up whose AI agents got into parts of Anthropic’s internal systems last month, The Washington Post reported, an episode OpenAI’s posts don’t mention. Bigger rewards make it likelier the next hole in ChatGPT gets reported rather than sold, which matters if your chats hold anything personal. Our story has the full rate card.

AI users are working longer days

People who use AI at work are active for up to 90 minutes longer a day than colleagues who don’t, according to ActivTrak‘s screen-activity data on 9,140 workers at 467 companies. Heavy users also had shorter stretches of focus, 37.8 minutes against 48.2 for light users, and those using a chatbot in a separate browser tab switched apps up to 4.2 times an hour.

ActivTrak sells workplace monitoring software, and its data shows a link, not a cause: people who already work long days may simply be keener on AI. Still, if the tools make tasks faster and the day gets longer anyway, the time saved is going to employers rather than workers. We dug into the numbers this afternoon.

Signing off

Today was about who pays. Publishers want chatbots and search companies to pay for their journalism, OpenAI says it will cover its own electricity and bigger bug bills, and workers may be paying for AI with their evenings. Earlier, we also covered UK regulators telling firms they can’t blame their AI agents when things go wrong.

See you tomorrow.