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Like millions worldwide, Southeast Asians have been trying out large language models such as Meta's Llama 2 and Mistral AI - but in their native Bahasa Indonesia or Thai. The result has usually been gibberish in English.This leaves them at a disadvantage, tech experts warn, as generative artificial intelligence transforms education, work and governance worldwide. A Singapore government-led initiative aims to correct the imbalance with a Southeast Asian LLM, the first in a family of models named SEA-LION - Southeast Asian…

Credit: 🇮🇳Amol Nandiwadekar from Pexels A study of older U.S. South Asians examines relationships between religious service attendance (temple, mosque, etc.), anxiety and feelings of emotional neglect by fellow congregation members. The research finds that among U.S. South Asians, those who attend religious services more often are also more likely to experience higher levels of anxiety. Further, much of this relationship can…

Greta Lee, born in Los Angeles (USA) to American parents who immigrated from South Korea right before she was born, is glad that the stereotypical representation of Asians is changing for the better in Hollywood. However, she adds in the same breath that the situation still warrants a lot of improvement. Actor Greta Lee also voiced the character of Lyla in the recent release Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. Having just worked in Past Lives, she played the role of a girl whose family emigrates from South…

Chris Pang, best known for his role in `Crazy Rich Asians`, will now be seen in `Interior Chinatown`. The casting marks a reunion with Interior Chinatown lead Jimmy O. Yang. The two were in Crazy Rich Asians together, where Yang`s Bernard threw Pang`s Colin a bachelor bacchanal aboard a cargo ship in international waters, The Hollywood Reporter reported. This time around, Pang plays Older Brother, the charming and talented beloved sibling of protagonist Willis Wu (Yang) whose mysterious disappearance years ago tore the…

After a milestone night for Asian and Asian American inclusion at the 95th Academy Awards, one community is still feeling the sting of being left out.Sunday’s performance of the viral heel-tapping hit “Naatu Naatu,” which became the first tune from an Indian film to win the Oscar for original song, was meant to be a celebration of Telugu-language blockbuster “RRR’s” unlikely road to the Oscars. Instead, it left many in the South Asian community disappointed and outraged for failing to showcase any South Asian dancers…

Credit: The Conversation People of Asian descent living in the U.S. experienced an increase in housing vulnerability in 2021—as measured by the share who said they had fallen behind on their rent or mortgage payments—even as the government spent more than US$5 trillion trying to relieve the COVID-19 pandemic's burden on Americans. Meanwhile, housing vulnerability among white people, Black people and Hispanic people all fell…

While U.S. offices are half empty three years into the Covid-19 pandemic, workplaces in Europe and Asia are bustling again.Americans have embraced remote work and turned their backs on offices with greater regularity than their counterparts overseas. U.S. office occupancy stands at 40% to 60% of prepandemic levels, varying within that range by month and by city. That compares with a 70%-to-90% rate in Europe and the Middle East, according to JLL, a property-services firm that manages 4.6…

Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris (Getty Images)Twitter CEO Elon Musk voiced his outspoken support for cartoonist Scott Adams who received criticism for posting a racist rant on YouTube last week. Adams has since been fired from news outlets after calling Black people a “hate group” adding, “I don’t want to have anything to do with them.”Musk defended Adams’ video, claiming it is the mainstream media that is racist, not the cartoonist. “For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they’re racist…

Tesla Chief Executive Office Elon Musk speaks at his company's factory in Fremont, California.Noah Berger | ReutersElon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX, Tesla and Twitter, has accused "the media," and "elite colleges and high schools" of being "racist" against white and Asian people, espousing his views without providing evidence on Sunday.Musk posted his comments on Twitter, where he boasts nearly 130 million followers, in response to news that media organizations around the country decided to cut the comic strip "Dilbert" from…

“Citizen, and the premium version, is not the panacea. It will not fix the world’s problems. It will not stop crime from happening all over the world. It’s not that,” Chandler says. “But it is a very powerful way for marginalized communities to make their voices heard.”  “Unfortunately, they don’t have a Chinese helper”  “While the idea of Citizen is brilliant … I do come to this with a healthy dose of skepticism because of the uniqueness of our community,” says OCA’s Kosai. “One of the things that I’m always thinking…