{"id":30529,"date":"2025-10-10T12:40:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/?p=30529"},"modified":"2025-10-13T12:45:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:45:32","slug":"weekly-ai-news-update-03-09-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/news-events\/weekly-ai-news-update-03-09-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly AI News Update (03-09 October 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"30529\" class=\"elementor elementor-30529\" 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-d88941f elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d88941f\" 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-eea3ca5\" data-id=\"eea3ca5\" 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-3d42bc1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3d42bc1\" 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>A new white paper by Times Higher Education and Google for Education highlights the need for universities to move beyond AI literacy towards advanced AI capability, featuring global insights and OECD frameworks for assessing AI competencies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.com\/sites\/default\/files\/google_october_2025_white_paper.pdf\">Times Higher Education<\/a><\/li><li>Ant Group has launched Ling-1T, a trillion-parameter open-source large language model demonstrating superior performance in code generation, software development, mathematics, and logical reasoning, surpassing counterparts from DeepSeek, OpenAI, and others. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3328425\/chinese-fintech-giant-ant-group-releases-powerful-ai-model-rival-deepseek-and-openai\">South China Morning Post<\/a><\/li><li>The Hong Kong Polytechnic University will introduce a compulsory course, AI as a Tool for Language Learning, which teaches AI-assisted language learning and assessment methods. 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