Weekly AI News Update (18-24 July 2025)

Weekly AI News Update (18-24 July 2025)

AI can be a coach, not a competitor, in the university classroom. Placing teaching tasks along a spectrum between AI and human strengths can help university educators make use of the best of both strengths. Times Higher Education
The Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong and subsidized secondary schools held a health innovation competition. A school wins the championship with AI peptide drug research. The dean expressed delight that participating students applied innovative thinking and technology to solve real-world challenges. Ming Pao
HKMU Angel Fund incubates first batch of five startups with up to HK$1 million each; driving innovation, technology and sustainability. These startups span fields such as smart healthcare, artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and sustainable development, leveraging innovative technologies and products to drive social and economic growth in Hong Kong and beyond. Hong Kong Commercial Daily
DeepMind's quest for self-Improving table tennis agents showing vision language models (VLMs) can be leveraged for explainable robot policy search. SAS Prompt (summarize, analyze, synthesize) is developed, a single prompt that enables iterative learning and adaptation of robot behavior by leveraging the VLM's ability to retrieve, reason, and optimize to synthesize new behavior. IEEE Spectrum
Chinese open-source AI models occupy top spots among global developers. The ranking was the latest sign that Chinese AI companies have been narrowing the gap with their US peers by using an open-source approach, making the source code and model weights of the AI models available for anyone to use, modify and distribute. South China Morning Post