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AI News Weekly - Issue #439: 10 Free Artificial Intelligence Books For 2025 - May 19th 2025
Welcome Interested in sponsorship opportunities? Join the AI conversation and transform your advertising strategy with AI weekly sponsorship aiweekly.co In the News 10 Free Artificial Intelligence Books For 2025 Artificial intelligence has taken the world by storm. As data professionals, it's become essential to understand AI, its impact, and how to apply it. To help you learn further in your AI journey, this article will outline the top ten free AI books you should know in 2025. kdnuggets.com Our Sponsor carrd.co 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 Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’ Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week. techcrunch.com Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore. techcrunch.com ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent With Codex and its new codex-1 model, OpenAI wants to be an engineer’s “virtual coworker.” theverge.com Applied use cases If Keir Starmer is not robotic enough for you, his AI twin is ready for your questions Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should be theguardian.com The Intelligent Highway: How AI is Revolutionizing Transportation Picture a world where traffic jams are rare, buses arrive exactly when you need them, and your car warns you about a failing part before it ever breaks down. This isn’t a science fiction movie: it’s happening now, thanks to artificial intelligence quietly reshaping every mile of our journeys. imd.org Does AI hold the key to ending hunger? Achieving zero hunger is a huge task and humanitarians need to use every advantage that is available to them. AI can be an incredibly important tool for tackling hunger smarter and faster – but it can’t end hunger on its own. wfp.org Ethics Have journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI? AI is being used in journalistic work for everything from transcribing interviews and translating articles to writing and publishing local weather, economic reports and water quality stories. theconversation.com AI and Publishing Ethics: A Narrative Review and SWOT Analysis AI, after surviving two major AI winters (1974-1980 and 1987-2000), is now growing at an exponential rate. This rapid advancement, particularly in its application to medical science and literature, has significantly transformed how research is conducted. cureus.com Does AI Have Free Will? A new study argues that some generative AI agents meet all three philosophical criteria for free will: agency, choice, and control. Drawing from theories by Dennett and List, researchers examined AI agents like Minecraft’s Voyager and fictional autonomous drones, concluding that they exhibit functional free will. neurosciencenews.com Robotics Cartwheel Robotics Wants to Build Humanoids That People Love The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is making right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories. ieee.org RealMan displays embodied robotics at Automate 2025 The Beijing-based company described itself as a leading innovator in embodied intelligence and modular robotic systems. therobotreport.com China's AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing In a sprawling warehouse in a Shanghai suburb, dozens of humanoid robots are manoeuvred by their operators to carry out tasks like folding a T-shirt, making a sandwich and opening doors, over and over again. reuters.com Research MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer
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10 Free Artificial Intelligence Books For 2025
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Grok says it’s ‘skeptical’ about Holocaust death toll, then blames ‘programming error’
Grok, the AI-powered chatbot created by xAI and widely deployed across its new corporate sibling X, wasn’t just obsessed with white genocide this week.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts
While Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says he likes podcasts, he might not actually be listening to them anymore.
ChatGPT is getting an AI coding agent
With Codex and its new codex-1 model, OpenAI wants to be an engineer’s “virtual coworker.”
Applied use cases
If Keir Starmer is not robotic enough for you, his AI twin is ready for your questions
Leon Emirali has created digital versions of all UK MPs, including a Wes Streeting avatar who is unabashedly frank about who the next PM should be
The Intelligent Highway: How AI is Revolutionizing Transportation
Picture a world where traffic jams are rare, buses arrive exactly when you need them, and your car warns you about a failing part before it ever breaks down. This isn’t a science fiction movie: it’s happening now, thanks to artificial intelligence quietly reshaping every mile of our journeys.
Does AI hold the key to ending hunger?
Achieving zero hunger is a huge task and humanitarians need to use every advantage that is available to them. AI can be an incredibly important tool for tackling hunger smarter and faster – but it can’t end hunger on its own.
Ethics
Have journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI?
AI is being used in journalistic work for everything from transcribing interviews and translating articles to writing and publishing local weather, economic reports and water quality stories.
AI and Publishing Ethics: A Narrative Review and SWOT Analysis
AI, after surviving two major AI winters (1974-1980 and 1987-2000), is now growing at an exponential rate. This rapid advancement, particularly in its application to medical science and literature, has significantly transformed how research is conducted.
Does AI Have Free Will?
A new study argues that some generative AI agents meet all three philosophical criteria for free will: agency, choice, and control. Drawing from theories by Dennett and List, researchers examined AI agents like Minecraft’s Voyager and fictional autonomous drones, concluding that they exhibit functional free will.
Robotics
Cartwheel Robotics Wants to Build Humanoids That People Love
The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is making right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories.
RealMan displays embodied robotics at Automate 2025
The Beijing-based company described itself as a leading innovator in embodied intelligence and modular robotic systems.
China's AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing
In a sprawling warehouse in a Shanghai suburb, dozens of humanoid robots are manoeuvred by their operators to carry out tasks like folding a T-shirt, making a sandwich and opening doors, over and over again.
Research
MIT Says It No Longer Stands Behind Student’s AI Research Paper
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday it can no longer stand behind a widely circulated paper on artificial intelligence written by a doctoral student in its economics program.
An AI-based limited area model for forecasting of surface meteorological variables
Issues related to lateral boundary conditions, such as selecting width of lateral boundary regions and combining finer and coarser resolution predictions in the regions, are also studied.
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The perceived human-likeness triggers a chain of psychological processes -which ultimately has a positive effect on the acceptance of crisis communication and thus on the brand image. In our study, we refer to the limitations of our study and thus classify the knowledge gained.
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