December 23, 2025
New York Times reporter sues Google, xAI, OpenAI over chatbot training
A Google logo is seen at a company research facility in Mountain View, California, U.S. on May 13, 2025. Reuters An investigative reporter known for exposing fraud at Silicon Valley blood-testing startup Theranos sued Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta Platforms and Perplexity on Monday for using copyrighted books without permission to train their artificial intelligence systems. New York Times Journalist and “Bad Blood” author John Carreyrou filed the lawsuit in California federal court along with five other authors, accusing AI companies of tampering with their books and feeding them into the large language models (LLMs) that power the











