Editor's Note

The International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI) provides a forum for researchers and professionals to share recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and its wide range of applications. This issue brings together contributions that reflect the growing diversity of AI research, covering topics such as information credibility assessment in social media, recommender systems, federated learning and data privacy, medical image analysis, educational technologies, large language models and virtual assistants, intelligent multimedia systems, and environmental monitoring. Collectively, these works illustrate how current AI methods continue to expand across disciplines, addressing both theoretical challenges and real-world problems.