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AI Briefing — December 16, 2025

The 10 most important AI stories of December 16, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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OpenAIs ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster

Bloomberg Technology ↗

OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that’s intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move by the artificial intelligence developer to bolster its flagship chatbot amid heated competition from Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The new version of ChatGPT Images, announced on Thursday, is designed to make and edit images more precisely, as well as to spit out pictures as much as four times faster than its previous AI image-generation model. The company is also creating a new section w

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OECD Boss Predicts AI Investment Will Keep Rising, Boost Growth

Bloomberg Technology ↗

The surge in artificial intelligence investment that has buoyed world growth is set to continue and deliver longer-term gains, OECD Secretary General Mathias Cormann said. “We do expect that the level of investment in relation to AI will continue to increase for some time,” Cormann said in an interview with Bloomberg Television. “Over the medium-to-long term we do expect a significant beneficial impact when it comes to productivity growth from the accelerating diffusion and adoption of AI acros...

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Meta rolls out AI glasses update with conversation boosting feature

The Verge ↗

Meta rolls out AI glasses update with conversation boosting feature. Back at Meta Connect, Meta teased that its AI glasses would soon support a conversation boosting feature to help folks hear better in noisy environments. That feature is rolling out starting today for Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta HSTN glasses owners who've opted into the company's Early Access Program. The feature, dubbed Conversation Focus, uses the AI glasses' open-ear speakers to amplify the voice of the person you're talking to.

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Nuclear Startup Last Raises 100 Million to Build Small Reactor

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Last Energy Inc., a nuclear startup, raised $100 million from investors led by Astera Institute to commercialize a small reactor it’s developing as soaring demand for power to run artificial intelligence stokes interest in the industry.

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