2025 update: since the first version of this report was released in 2023, the plagiarism allegations have essentially remained unchallenged. The awardees have not tried to defend themselves. They can't—the facts are the facts. In Dec 2025, the report was updated in line with recent AI history lessons from the AI Blog, e.g.: Who invented deep learning? Who invented backpropagation? Who invented convolutional neural networks? Who invented artificial neural networks? Who invented generative adversarial networks? Who invented Transformer neural networks? Who invented deep residual learning? Who invented neural knowledge distillation? ... Note that one cannot dismiss allegations of plagiarism simply because the plagiarising papers had once passed peer review! The history of science shows that many flawed papers were not identified as such until after they had passed peer review and publication. Passing flawed peer review does not absolve the authors of their sins.