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AI Briefing — December 23, 2025

The 10 most important AI stories of December 23, 2025, hand-curated from the day's coverage. Every story links to its primary source.

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New York Times reporter files lawsuit against AI companies

Engadget ↗

Investigative reporter John Carreyrou of theNew York Timesfiled a lawsuit against xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta and Perplexity on Monday for allegedly training their AI models on copyrighted books without permission. Carreyrou is perhapsbest knownfor exposing the Theranos fraudulent blood test scandal.According toReuters, the lawsuit was filed alongside five other writers who all claim big tech companies have been violating their intellectual property rights in the name of building large ...

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Memory Chip Makers Say AI Alters Boom-and-Bust Cycle

Bloomberg Technology ↗

Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world. Today, Ian King reports on the changing fortunes of the memory chip industry.

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Britains Top CEOs Predict the Biggest Challenges of 2026

Bloomberg Technology ↗

The bosses of some of Britain's biggest companies predict a fresh wave of challenges next year, as they absorb the impact Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves' tax-raising budget in November.

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Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans rChatGPTJailbreak (Reece RogersWired)

TechMeme ↗

Reece Rogers /Wired:Google's Nano Banana Pro and OpenAI's ChatGPT Images can make nonconsensual bikini deepfakes from photos of fully clothed women; Reddit bans r/ChatGPTJailbreak— Users of AI image generators are offering each other instructions on how to use the tech to alter pictures of women into realistic, revealing deepfakes.

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How social media encourages the worst of AI boosterism

MIT Tech Review ↗

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, summed it up in three words: "This is embarrassing." Hassabis was replying on X to an overexcited post by Sébastien Bubeck, a research scientist at the rival firm OpenAI, announcing that two mathematicians had used OpenAI's latest large language model, GPT-5, to find solutions to 10 unsolved problems in…

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