Education, Health & Science

Tencent has released Hy4 preview—an open-source, next-generation large language model with 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, and over 1M-token context window.

AC Health is moving into clinical research, partnering with AstraZeneca Philippines to develop Healthway hospitals as potential clinical-trial sites and expand the country’s capacity to conduct studies beyond traditional research centers.

Pru Life UK has entered into a strategic partnership with Shinagawa Philippines to deliver exclusive health and wellness discounts to its eligible customers, licensed agents, and employees—an initiative that underscores the insurer’s expanding focus on holistic wellbeing alongside its core financial protection offerings.

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources–Environmental Management Bureau (DENR-EMB) has alerted the public to widespread haze across several key regions, including the National Capital Region, Central Luzon, CALABARZON, MIMAROPA, and portions of Central Visayas. Monitoring and weather assessments link the condition to smoke from ongoing fires in Kalimantan, Indonesia, carried to the country by prevailing winds.

Artificial intelligence can help clinicians navigate medical information faster, but its growing role in healthcare also raises a basic question: Can doctors see the...