{"id":28260,"date":"2025-07-25T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/?p=28260"},"modified":"2025-07-25T18:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T10:10:17","slug":"weekly-ai-news-update-18-24-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/news-events\/weekly-ai-news-update-18-24-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly AI News Update (18-24 July 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"28260\" class=\"elementor elementor-28260\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-6238be4 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"6238be4\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5f80bbe\" data-id=\"5f80bbe\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b85e630 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b85e630\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/campus\/beyond-buzz-how-ai-can-be-coach-not-competitor-university-classroom\">Times Higher Education<\/a><\/li><li>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.mingpao.com\/pns\/%e6%b8%af%e8%81%9e\/article\/20250722\/s00002\/1753118205140\/%e3%80%90emily%e3%80%91%e6%b8%af%e5%a4%a7%e9%86%ab%e5%ad%b8%e9%99%a2%e6%b4%a5%e4%b8%ad%e8%be%a6%e5%81%a5%e5%ba%b7%e5%89%b5%e7%a7%91%e7%9b%83-ai%e7%a0%94%e8%82%bd%e9%a1%9e%e8%97%a5%e7%89%a9-%e4%b9%9d%e9%be%8d%e7%9c%9f%e5%85%89%e5%a5%aa%e5%86%a0\">Ming Pao<\/a><\/li><li>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hkcd.com.hk\/hkcdweb\/content\/2025\/07\/18\/content_8705009.html\">Hong Kong Commercial Daily<\/a><\/li><li>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/deepmind-table-tennis-robots\">IEEE Spectrum<\/a><\/li><li>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. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3318985\/chinese-open-source-ai-models-occupy-top-spots-among-global-developers-ranking\">South China Morning Post<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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