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Hong Kong teams up with experts to develop AI tailored for schools

Hong Kong authorities are partnering with technology experts, professionals and educators to develop a highly intelligent AI platform tailored to the needs of the city’s schools, Secretary for Education Christine Choi Yuk-lin has said.

Choi told the Legislative Council on Wednesday that authorities were exploring launching a large language model (LLM) relating to the academic curriculum of Hong Kong’s schools.

She was responding to lawmaker Tang Fei, who asked whether the Education Bureau could take the lead in developing an LLM for schools to boost teaching and

Christine Choi says authorities are exploring launching a large language model for Hong Kong’s schools. Photo: Edmond So

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OpenAI seeks to increase global AI use in everyday life - Reuters

OpenAI seeks to increase global AI use in everyday life Reuters

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AMD Making It Easier To Install vLLM For ROCm

Deploying vLLM for LLM inference and serving on NVIDIA hardware can be as easy as pip3 install vllm . Beautifully simple just as many of the AI/LLM Python libraries can deploy straight-away and typically "just work" on NVIDIA. Running vLLM atop AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware though has traditionally meant either compiling vLLM from source yourself or AMD's recommended approach of using Docker containers that contain pre-built versions of vLLM. Finally there is now a blessed Python wheel for making it easier to install vLLM without Docker
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LLVM Adopts "Human In The Loop" Policy For AI/Tool-Assisted Contributions

Following recent discussions over AI contributions to the LLVM open-source compiler project, they have come to an agreement on allowing AI/tool-assisted contributions but that there must be a human involved that is first looking over the code before opening any pull request and similar. Strictly AI-driven contributions without any human vetting will not be permitted.

LLVM has committed its "human in the loop" policy for tool-assisted contributions given an increase in AI-driven garbage:
"Over the course of 2025

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翻訳に特化した「ChatGPT Translate」が登場

OpenAIから、翻訳に特化した「ChatGPT Translate」がひっそりと登場した。これまでChatGPTを“賢い翻訳機”として使用していたユーザーにとって重宝しそうだ。

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Intel LLM-Scaler-Omni Update Brings ComfyUI & SGLang Improvements On Arc Graphics

Following last week's updated Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM release for helping advance vLLM usage on Intel Arc Graphics, LLM Scaler Omni is out with a new release today for that LLM-Scaler environment focused on image / voice / video generation using Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes.

LLM-Scaler-Omni 0.1.0-b5 is the new release that adds support for Python 3.12 and PyTorch 2.9 for delivering some additional performance benefits. The updated LLM Scaler Omni brings a
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I thought NotebookLM was peak Google productivity for learning until I tried this newer, even smarter tool

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Local LLMs became useful when I wired them to Home Assistant

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Tencent seeks collaboration with other major AI developers to improve tech for vulnerable users

Tencent Research Institute is looking to improve the output of generative AI services when interacting with the elderly and other vulnerable users in society. Photo: Shutterstock

Specialised data sets can make AI services more helpful to vulnerable users who have become progressively reliant on them for emotional support and health assistance, according to Lu Shiyu, a senior researcher at Tencent Research Institute (TRI).

Since 2024, Lu’s team at TRI – the public strategy research unit of Shenzhen -based Tencent – has been developing specialised data sets with vulnerable users in mind. Data sets, such as the entire

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I turned NotebookLM into an auto-summarizing newsletter and it’s a total game changer

By turning NotebookLM into an auto-summarizing system, I stopped drowning in information and started actually retaining it