Prof. RAO Anyi, Assistant Professor in the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC), collaborated with members from several partner universities to introduce UniVidX, a unified multimodal framework for versatile video generation. It utilizes random condition masking, decoupled gated LoRA, and cross-modal self-attention to uniformly handle fifteen different video tasks. This framework achieves high-quality intrinsic decomposition and layer synthesis with limited training data.

Prof. XUE Wei, Assistant Professor in the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC) and the Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA), collaborated with members from CUHK and other leading institutions to publish an article titled "Talker-T2AV: Joint Talking Audio-Video Generation with Autoregressive Diffusion Modeling". The study introduces the Talker-T2AV framework, which significantly advances the synchronization of audio and video generation and addresses longstanding challenges in multimodal synthesis.

An article by Prof. Christine LOH Kung-Wai, Chief Development Strategist in the Division of Environment and Sustainability (ENVR), on Hong Kong's tourism evolving from a transactional model to an experiential one involving neighborhood walks, rural villages, food culture, exhibitions, shows, nature trails, and everyday urban life. She remarked that the challenge for Hong Kong is no longer only handling visitor numbers, but strengthening what makes the city distinctive.

In a column article, Prof. Erwin HUANG, Adjunct Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD), argued that in the AI era, design has shifted from being the "final step" of packaging information to a fundamental tool for thinking and problem-solving.

During the "From Digital to Digital Intelligence — Seminar on Art and Technology Talent Cultivation" held in Beijing on April 29, Prof. FU Hongbo, Acting Head and Professor in the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC), outlined the University's framework for developing a new generation of talent proficient in both technology and the arts.

A column article by Prof. Christine LOH Kung-Wai, Chief Development Strategist in the Division of Environment and Sustainability (ENVR), on HK's advantages amid global fragmentation. As the global landscape becomes increasingly fragmented and volatile, Prof. Loh noted that Hong Kong’s relative stability and institutional resilience have become its most valuable assets.

Prof. Anthony CHEUNG Bing-Leung, Adjunct Professor in the Division of Public Policy (PPOL), commented on top civil servants’ accountability for blunders. He noted that if the policy design itself is problematic, flawless implementation will still spark an outcry. He pointed to the key principle of "supervisory accountability", which asserts that supervisors can be held responsible for failing to exercise oversight.

A column article by Prof. Michael EDESESS, Adjunct Professor in the Division of Environment and Sustainability (ENVR), on the regulation of AI. He discussed the current challenges in governing AI, using the recent HK Global AI Governance Conference and the emergence of Anthropic’s Mythos model as key case studies.

HKUST received a gold medal with its UAV first-responder system "AeroRelief" at the 51st Geneva Inventions Expo. The system makes good use of AI analysis and automatic planning to quickly deliver supplies such as AEDs and address "blind spots" in suburban areas, which will improve the rescuing capacity in emergency response in severe weather in the future. Jimmy HU, BSc in Innovation, Design and Technology (IDT) graduate, explained how the system ran on a radio program.

A column article by Adjunct Professor in the Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD) Prof. Erwin HUANG on how he transitioned from relying on human assistants to AI agents. He remarked that the future of work is moving away from a simple "man vs. machine" divide toward "man-machine collaboration," where the true revolution lies in the seamless, almost "human" interaction between the user and their digital partners.