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Can AI assist non-coding humanities researchers in processing non-Western language materials? Yes—but this report shows how and why MLLMs fail on domain-specific OCR, what that reveals about their cognitive boundaries, and methodological implications for low-resource AI-assisted DH workflows.

Discover Prism, a newly launched AI-native LaTeX editor by OpenAI that offers researchers a powerful, completely free alternative to Overleaf. 

Late last week, arXiv updated its policy on posting review articles and position papers in the Computer Science category. Previously, such papers were accepted at the discretion of moderators.

Want to use AI for academic research with confidence? The HKUST Library’s “AI Tools for Academic Research” is a self-paced mini-course designed for busy students like you.

Earlier this month, the Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) introduced OLMoTrace, a tool that traces LLM outputs back to their multi-trillion-token training data in real time.