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AI News Weekly - Issue #435: Stanford 2025 AI Index Report - Apr 22nd 2025

Powered by carrd.co Welcome Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Join the AI conversation and transform your advertising strategy with AI weekly sponsorship aiweekly.co In the News Stanford 2025 AI Index Report The AI Index offers one of the most comprehensive, data-driven views of artificial intelligence. Recognized as a trusted resource by global media, governments, and leading companies, the AI Index equips policymakers, business leaders, and the public with rigorous, objective insights into AI’s technical progress, economic influence, and societal impact. stanford.edu Sponsor ✅ Multi-angle analysis in seconds – Get market trends, risk assessments, competitor insights, and expert-backed viewpoints in one place. ✅ No conflicting opinions to sort through – Essentials AI does the comparison for you, highlighting agreements, contradictions, and key takeaways. ✅ Always up-to-date – Unlike human teams, Essentials AI continuously scans and updates insights from trusted sources. ✅ No overhead, no delays – What once took weeks now takes minutes. carrd.co In The News Nvidia says it will build up to $500bn of US AI infrastructure as chip tariff looms Plan comes after Donald Trump reiterated import threats and chipmaker’s CEO dined at US president’s resort theguardian.com xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. techcrunch.com Explainable AI for ship navigation raises trust, decreases human error The Titanic sunk 113 years ago on April 14-15, after hitting an iceberg, with human error likely causing the ship to stray into those dangerous waters. Today, autonomous systems built on artificial intelligence can help ships avoid such accidents, but could such a system explain to the captain why it was maneuvering a certain way? sciencedaily.com Applied use cases Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people. nature.com Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications. theverge.com Challenges and opportunities for AI in auditing: Evidence from the field In this study we research the adoption of AI in auditing by large public accounting firms, with emphasis on its challenges and opportunities. Some previous studies point to delayed adoption of AI in auditing due to regulations and the need for additional safeguards while others document extensive AI implementation. sciencedirect.com Ethics Weaponized AI: A New Era of Threats and How We Can Counter It AI has emerged as both a transformative tool and a potential weapon of unprecedented sophistication, presenting serious risks to national security and democratic institutions. harvard.edu The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians. npr.org EU bans the bots: Commission bars ‘AI agents’ from joining online meetings The Commission acknowledged it had imposed the ground rule for the first time last week, declining to give more details on the policy and reasons why it took the decision. politico.eu Robotics Robotics meets the culinary arts RoboCake is ready. This edible robotic cake is the result of a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) and pastry chefs and food scientists from EHL in Lausanne. techxplore.com ABB to spin off world's second biggest robotics business Swiss industrial group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab on Thursday announced plans to spin off its robotics division in the biggest shake up at the company since it sold its power grids business to Japan's Hitachi (6501.T), opens new tab in 2018. reuters.com Studying fruit flies to help build better robots Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) are trying to replicate the brains of tiny fruit flies to create next-generation robots. swissinfo.ch Research AI: an overview of research tren

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AI News Weekly - Issue #435: Stanford 2025 AI Index Report - Apr 22nd 2025

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Stanford 2025 AI Index Report

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In The News

Nvidia says it will build up to $500bn of US AI infrastructure as chip tariff looms

Plan comes after Donald Trump reiterated import threats and chipmaker’s CEO dined at US president’s resort

theguardian.com

xAI adds a ‘memory’ feature to Grok

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

techcrunch.com

Explainable AI for ship navigation raises trust, decreases human error

The Titanic sunk 113 years ago on April 14-15, after hitting an iceberg, with human error likely causing the ship to stray into those dangerous waters. Today, autonomous systems built on artificial intelligence can help ships avoid such accidents, but could such a system explain to the captain why it was maneuvering a certain way?

sciencedaily.com

Applied use cases

Will AI improve your life? Here’s what 4,000 researchers think

Scientists working on artificial intelligence are more confident than the public that the technology will benefit people.

nature.com

Wikipedia is giving AI developers its data to fend off bot scrapers

Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that’s specifically optimized for machine learning applications.

theverge.com

Challenges and opportunities for AI in auditing: Evidence from the field

In this study we research the adoption of AI in auditing by large public accounting firms, with emphasis on its challenges and opportunities. Some previous studies point to delayed adoption of AI in auditing due to regulations and the need for additional safeguards while others document extensive AI implementation.

sciencedirect.com

Ethics

Weaponized AI: A New Era of Threats and How We Can Counter It

AI has emerged as both a transformative tool and a potential weapon of unprecedented sophistication, presenting serious risks to national security and democratic institutions.

harvard.edu

The (artificial intelligence) therapist can see you now

New research suggests that given the right kind of training, AI bots can deliver mental health therapy with as much efficacy as — or more than — human clinicians.

npr.org

EU bans the bots: Commission bars ‘AI agents’ from joining online meetings

The Commission acknowledged it had imposed the ground rule for the first time last week, declining to give more details on the policy and reasons why it took the decision.

politico.eu

Robotics

Robotics meets the culinary arts

RoboCake is ready. This edible robotic cake is the result of a collaboration between researchers from EPFL (the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne), the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT-Italian Institute of Technology) and pastry chefs and food scientists from EHL in Lausanne.

techxplore.com

ABB to spin off world's second biggest robotics business

Swiss industrial group ABB (ABBN.S), opens new tab on Thursday announced plans to spin off its robotics division in the biggest shake up at the company since it sold its power grids business to Japan's Hitachi (6501.T), opens new tab in 2018.

reuters.com

Studying fruit flies to help build better robots

Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) are trying to replicate the brains of tiny fruit flies to create next-generation robots.

swissinfo.ch

Research

AI: an overview of research trends and future directions

This study aims to offer an overview of hospitality and tourism research on AI and its impact on the industry.

emerald.com

AI as a teaching tool in university education

A descriptive study with a quantitative approach was conducted using the deductive method and a Likert scale questionnaire.

frontiersin.org

Cost Modeling and Scheduling for Complex LLM Inference Patterns

Here, our goal is to extend our CSP formulation and analysis to more complex inference scenarios, such as prefix sharing (sharing KVs for the common prefix of multiple requests), and reveal new insights toward a better, implementable scheduling policy.

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