An AI education radar for families, educators, and practitioners. We track policy, companies, products, classroom practice, and research, explaining what happened and why it matters.
At a September 23 State Council Information Office briefing, Guo Peng, director of the Ministry of Education's development planning department, said undergraduate enrollment expansion at Double First-Class universities will continue: 24,000 more places this year, bringing the three-year total to 62,000 additional undergraduate admission slots. From 2027 to 2030, at least another 76,000 places will be added, with priority support for artificial intelligence, integrated circuits, biomedicine, new energy and other frontier and emerging interdisciplinary fields, along with support for new campuses and improved basic teaching conditions.
The Florida State Board of Education last Wednesday approved two AI policy rules. Public school districts and charter school governing boards must amend their internet safety policies to include AI guardrails by July 1, 2027. Schools must notify parents when teachers approve an AI instructional tool, including the platform name, classes, and nature of student interaction, and provide a process for parents to object and alternatives. AI tools used in PreK-5 require additional age-appropriateness reviews, and the 28 state college boards of trustees must adopt AI use and limitation policies.
The Beijing Leading Group for Employment Promotion and Labor Protection issued the "Skills Beijing" Training Action Implementation Plan on September 1, 2026, published on September 23. During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the city plans more than 4.5 million vocational skill training sessions and over 350,000 new skill certificates, including at least 150,000 for high-skilled talent. The plan calls for broad AI literacy education and joint AI training bases built by enterprises, universities, vocational colleges and technical schools.
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At the United Nations General Assembly, Amazon announced support for First Lady Melania Trump's Fostering the Future Together global coalition, which brings together first spouses from more than 45 countries. Amazon will give students at 132 universities across 18 countries free one-year access to Kiro, partner with Khalifa University in the UAE on an AWS data center infrastructure training program, and launch coding clubs in Dubai and Abu Dhabi schools reaching more than 460 students aged 12–18. The efforts build on Amazon's $2.5 billion Future Ready 2030 commitment to help upskill 50 million people.
AI4MiddleSchools, a multistate partnership with ties to Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science, is expanding to Connecticut, Mississippi, New Jersey and Pennsylvania while deepening implementation in Georgia, Texas and Florida. The initiative teaches middle school students machine learning, natural language understanding, computer vision and automated decision-making, and examines bias, ethical design and societal impacts. Over the next three years, it is forecasted to reach approximately 15,000 students, 1,700 educators, 100-145 teacher leaders and 100-150 administrators.
a16z has launched the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, positioned as a direct alternative to a classic four-year college degree. Its inaugural Founding Class Fellowship is a one-year program starting Fall 2027, tuition-free, with $50,000 in compute credits and a $5,000 travel and research budget. The Academy has raised $42M led by a16z, with ten founding partners including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Nvidia co-creating curriculum and offering hands-on learning.
St Colman's College in Newry has become the first school on the island of Ireland, and one of only 20 worldwide, to achieve the Gold AI Quality Mark from the Good Future Foundation. The accreditation recognises schools for ethical, strategic and impactful use of artificial intelligence in teaching, learning and leadership. The college previously received the Most Ethical Use of AI in Education Award at the Ulster University AI in Education Awards, and last year 30 students completed a pilot of the Pearson Generative AI Foundations certification, which will now become a permanent part of the curriculum.
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump promoted the Fostering the Future Together initiative in New York on September 22 during the United Nations General Assembly, focusing on AI in education, EdTech tools, online protection and digital skills. The State Department said the initiative spans at least 57 countries, with Adobe, Amazon, Google, Intel, N50, Starlink and Zoom joining. Google committed $4 million to expand its AI Educator Series, and Amazon is expanding free access to its Kiro AI software-engineering agent through 132 universities.
At a Fostering the Future Together (FTFT) event in New York held alongside the opening of the 81st UN General Assembly, Intel announced it will scale its AI in Education, EdTech Tools and Digital Literacy programmes across 10 countries including Kenya, covering AI for Citizens, AI for Youth and Semiconductor for Youth. The event brought together representatives of 57 nations and technology companies, secured seven new private-sector partnerships, and announced a $4 million AI education investment and $2.75 million in new grants. Specific programmes, schools and beneficiary numbers for Kenya have not yet been announced.
On September 22, 2026, Handshake opened AI Skills Studio, a free project-based learning hub for any job seeker, with missions expected to take 10 to 45 minutes each. The company co-designed hands-on projects with Clay, Figma, Google, OpenAI, Replit, Salesforce and others. Completed projects are added to the user's Handshake profile and AI Showcase, and users receive a verified skill badge visible to more than one million employers that use Handshake. More than 40 missions are available at launch, sorted by career or topic, covering marketing, sales, data analysis, AI assistants, research, apps and sites, images and video, and design.
K99.1FM reported on September 22, 2026 that a Chalkbeat review found at least 13 states have passed laws about AI in education, but most direct state agencies and districts to create their own AI guidance. About three out of four states have published AI education guidance, yet these documents tend to skirt cheating and devote more space to AI literacy and teacher efficiency. A Common Sense Media survey published last month found 70% of teens report using AI for schoolwork.
Learning Commons, backed by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, launched an open platform for educators and edtech developers, alongside six new partner organizations. The platform has two main components: the Knowledge Graph and Evaluators. The Knowledge Graph publishes K-12 data on GitHub under an open license, including academic standards from all 50 states, learning progressions and curricula. Evaluators measure whether AI-generated content is accurate, grade-appropriate, evidence-based and aligned to state standards. Since its 2025 launch, its datasets have been downloaded about 20,000 times, with more than 70 partners.
The Pinggu District Education Commission in Beijing has awarded the second phase of its "AI Plus Education" application platform to Beijing Feixiang Xingqiu Technology Co., Ltd. for 14.945095 million yuan, with a comprehensive evaluation score of 96.55. The result was published on the Beijing Public Resource Trading Service Platform on September 22, 2026, with an agency service fee of 82,005.87 yuan, and was also released on the Beijing and China government procurement websites.
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Dubai-based GEMS Education is preparing to introduce AI-powered digital twins of its teachers, giving students personalised support and subject expertise beyond the school day. The first phase will be based at GEMS School of Research & Innovation, with the GEMS Global Education AI Hub and the GEMS Intelligence 360 platform serving as a testing ground where teachers, students and partners co-design and evaluate the AI agents. The programme is intended to scale across GEMS' school network in the Middle East and beyond, with a working solution targeted for release before the end of 2026.
The UC Irvine School of Education has launched the National Center for Writing Research to Improve Teaching Effectiveness with Generative AI, known as the WRITE AI Center, through a $10 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences. Over five years, the center will develop and evaluate evidence-based approaches to using AI in writing instruction and conduct two major studies: a nationwide survey and case study, and an implementation and evaluation study using UCI's PapyrusAI platform. A randomized controlled trial is set to fully kick off in year three, covering more than 1,000 community college students across 60 classes in three states.
On September 22, 2026, 2U announced a partnership with CodeSignal to bring more than 400 hands-on, practice-based courses to edX, its global online learning platform, for the first time. The first courses are now live, with the full catalog available on edX by the end of the year. Roughly a third to half of the initial catalog focuses on practical AI skills, including prompt engineering, AI literacy for business roles, ethical AI development, and building AI-powered applications. Skill checks are built into the courses, and CodeSignal's AI tutor Cosmo provides one-on-one guidance and instant feedback.
US community colleges are working to democratize AI education. Antonio Delgado, vice president of innovation and technology partnerships at Miami-Dade College, began studying employer demand for applied AI talent around 2019 and developed an applied AI associate degree with no prerequisites, partnering with IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Google and Intel to train faculty. The first class enrolled only 30 students; after ChatGPT appeared, enrollment rose to 750. Delgado also founded the National Applied AI Consortium to help community colleges meet labor-market demand for applied AI workers.
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At the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, Google.org announced a $4 million commitment to the nonprofit Digital Promise to provide free, practical AI training for teachers and faculty worldwide. The program focuses on hands-on training for daily teaching tasks such as lesson planning and student assessment, rather than theoretical discussion of AI's future impact. The article says Digital Promise has worked with more than 1,000 school districts and cites a survey finding that 87% of educators believe AI will affect education while only 23% feel prepared to integrate it effectively.
KT announced on the 22nd that it signed a memorandum of understanding with the National Information Society Agency to support AI-based inclusive digital transformation and strengthen global capabilities. The two organizations plan to expand their AI education and certification cooperation experience accumulated in Korea overseas, linking AICE to NIA's Information Access Centers and the World Friends Korea IT Volunteers program. In the second half of this year, AICE Basic training and exams will be piloted at Information Access Centers in Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Georgia, with 100 people per country receiving VOD online training and 20 per country taking three days of offline training and the AICE Basic exam.
UAE Minister of Education Sarah Al Amiri said the country piloted an AI literacy curriculum framework across all state schools from Kindergarten to Year 12 in the 2025-26 school year, and rolled it out officially in September 2026 as a distinct mandatory part of the curriculum. The framework has three core goals and six principles, is divided into three age cycles (K-4, 5-8, 9-12), and more than 25 percent focuses purely on ethical use of AI. The UAE Cabinet approved publishing the full curriculum online for other countries to adapt.
During the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services, the Beijing RISC-V Digital Infrastructure Innovation Center, together with Zhongguancun Fengtai Park company Beijing Beinengda, launched the city's first AI Future Learning Space at the education services exhibition area, presenting a complete EPC turnkey delivery. Built on the RISC-V open-source technology ecosystem, the space integrates domestic computing power into basic education teaching scenarios and creates two core scenarios: a K-12 artificial intelligence laboratory and a future classroom. The laboratory covers four teaching scenarios: labor and technology courses, AI interactive physics, chemistry and biology experiments, general AI courses, and embodied intelligence innovation.
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Starting in the autumn 2026 semester, multiple Chinese cities have introduced artificial intelligence literacy courses in primary and secondary schools, covering topics from understanding AI and using AI to using it well and questioning AI. Jiangsu Province has rolled out AI literacy courses across all its primary and secondary schools, reaching every campus and every student. Shandong Province requires AI-related courses in compulsory education, with no less than 6 class hours per academic year for grades 1-2 and no less than 8 class hours for grades 3-9, plus an optional high school module titled Introduction to Artificial Intelligence. The Ministry of Education said it will accelerate the popularization of AI education and plans a vertically integrated, full-stage AI education system by 2030.
New Brunswick's Department of Education has added learning about AI into its updated anglophone K-12 curriculum, covering kindergarten through Grade 12. The province says the update incorporates safe and ethical AI use and AI literacy, without displacing literacy and numeracy fundamentals. Some are calling for a pause, especially for younger learners.
LG held the 9th LG Aimers Hackathon from September 19 to 20 at LG Inhwa Garden in Icheon, Gyeonggi Province, on developing an AI model to predict a pitcher's pitch-control success rate, with 3,393 youths participating and 96 finalists sharing 100 million won in support funds. LG said cumulative participation in LG Aimers has exceeded 23,000 youths since its launch in the second half of 2022. LG also opened recruitment for 100 participants in the 4th LG AI Youth Camp, with applications due October 22, jointly run with Seoul National University and starting in February 2027.
On September 18, the Report on Practical Cybersecurity Talent Capabilities—AI Empowerment Edition was officially released at the First China Cyberspace Security Conference. The report was guided by the Discipline Evaluation Group for Cyberspace Security of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Teaching Guidance Committee for Cyberspace Security Majors of the Ministry of Education, with Beihang University, the University of Science and Technology of China, and Yongxin Zhitong Technology Group Co., Ltd. as chief editorial units. The report examines questions including where talent is, how capable it is, how talent is trained, and how talent is evaluated, analyzing practical scenarios such as model security, AI application security, and AI-empowered cybersecurity. It shows that current AI security talent tends to have short tenures, concentrated geographic and industry distribution, and insufficient dedicated staff.
Puning City held its second Youth Artificial Intelligence Science and Technology Practice Competition from September 19 to 20, 2026, with the opening ceremony at Yucai School. The event was co-hosted by the city's science association, education bureau and science and technology bureau, drawing 54 teams and 405 participants over two days. It kept the digital intelligence robot competition and added the Xintu Smart Delivery and Interstellar Voyage intelligent robot challenges, covering multiple school stages.
Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training will continue piloting AI education in the 2026-2027 school year, allowing institutions to integrate it into subjects and educational activities, thematic workshops and modules, enhanced teaching, clubs and extracurricular activities, without creating new subjects or grades. In the same period, the first year of a unified national textbook set saw a shortage of 3,916,370 books as of 6 PM on September 14, about 1.5% of total demand. The government asked the ministry to complete supply and report to the Prime Minister before September 22.
Adobe is expanding its AI and digital skills program across India, with more than 7.8 million students and teachers covered in thousands of government schools. Moneycontrol reported the expansion on September 20, 2026, without disclosing course content, implementation timelines or phased rollout details.
UC Berkeley opened the Gateway building this fall under its Computing, Data Science, and Society Division (CDSS). The building is primarily used for AI-related research and serves as a collaboration hub connecting faculty, students, and external partners. CDSS was established in 2023 as Berkeley's first new college in over 50 years and graduates about 2,000 undergraduates and hundreds of graduate students annually. Dean Jennifer Chase said the new college was designed to cross disciplines, leveraging AI's opportunities while mitigating its side effects.
In September 2026, a two-day Northeast Education Conclave in Nagaland, India, adopted a set of resolutions on implementing the National Education Policy 2020 across the Northeast. Held under the theme "Implementation of NEP 2020: Vision, Challenges & Opportunities for the North Eastern States," it brought together representatives from seven Northeastern states to discuss school, higher and technical education. The resolutions are to be submitted to India's Ministry of Education and propose establishing and strengthening skill hubs within existing colleges and universities, offering courses in digital technologies, Artificial Intelligence, entrepreneurship, tourism, healthcare, agriculture and handicrafts.
In September 2026, the Shanghai SASAC system's AI seminar held three concentrated training sessions, opening on September 5 with Shanghai Vice Mayor He Qing attending and giving the opening address. Participants included SASAC Party and government leaders, main and deputy leaders of directly and entrusted supervised enterprises, and heads of department offices and district SASACs. Topics covered AI development history, AI for Science, optical computing and domestic AI chips, AI+ transformation, and general AI technology, with group visits to the Model Space innovation hub.
In July 2026, at the Nansonghu AI Bay conference in Kunshan, joint graduate training bases with 8 universities including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 11 partner funds, and AI computing power and embodied intelligence industry chain projects were signed. The AI Bay Innovation Development Alliance was also established, with the Kunshan AI Concept Verification Center of Shanghai Zuquan Innovation Transformation Research Institute and the Kunshan Embodied Intelligence Scenario Innovation R&D Base landing, clarifying an 8-square-kilometer industrial layout.
In September 2026, the Organization Department and the Science and Technology Economic Committee of Jing'an District, Shanghai, jointly held a special training program on 'AI+'-driven high-quality industrial development, with more than 80 participants from district departments, subdistricts and district-owned enterprises. The curriculum covered policy interpretation, industry trends, case analysis, technical principles and hands-on guidance, and included on-site teaching at SenseTime and Hygon. The district said it will next focus on fashion consumption, professional services and future audiovisual as three key application areas.
An incomplete tally by Duojing shows at least 33 AI education-related funding deals worldwide in the first nine months of 2026, with 14 in the first half and 19 from July to September, or 57.6%. Of the 33 deals, 22 were pre-seed, seed, angel or angel+ rounds, accounting for 66.7%. Student-facing products accounted for 15 deals, of which 12 involved AI tutoring, personalized learning, language and exam preparation, or 36.4% of all deals.
Google has rolled out new features for Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM), centered on integrating Gemini Live so users can talk to their own notes and materials by voice, with answers strictly grounded in uploaded content, supporting nearly 100 languages and initially available to Google AI Ultra subscribers. It also supports recording class lectures or spoken notes that are automatically transcribed into text and added as new sources, with transcription currently English-only. Google says more than 150 million people use Google Classroom, where teachers can create notebooks, select course materials and assign them to students.
The AI for Social Impact Challenge (AIFSI), a UNITAR-certified online AI education programme run by UNITAR and Ureka Education, has brought together more than 200 institutions and organisations across 60 countries and territories within its first months. The programme opened its online learning modules on June 12, 2026, combining AI education with a global challenge aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and requires no technical or coding background. It was also named a Top 5 finalist in the AI in Education category of the AI World Series Awards 2026.
The Gates Foundation this week announced a $1 billion commitment to build and deliver equitable AI tools for schools, frontline health care workers, farmers and others, with 40% going to education, including AI tutoring to individualize learning in classrooms in the U.S. and abroad, or about $400 million. A foundation spokesperson said the tools will be tested in schools serving high shares of low-income students, paired with teacher training, and evaluated by independent researchers before being scaled. New York City announced on Sept. 2 a one-year pause on student-facing generative AI for grades 2-K through 8, affecting nearly 600,000 students.
Google launched the AI Educator Series, a training program that lets teachers earn 1 to 3 continuing education units or graduate credits per course, applicable toward career advancement and mandatory professional development requirements. The program is available nationwide to America's 3.2 million teachers and covers basic AI concepts plus hands-on use of Google's education tools for lesson planning, student assessment, and personalized learning. In early pilots, teachers who completed the courses reported 73% more confidence in using AI tools and were twice as likely to implement AI-assisted projects in their classrooms.
Google's AI Educator Series teacher training program now offers college and continuing education credits through partnerships with accredited institutions. The courses cover integrating AI tools into lesson planning, student assessment, and personalized learning. The program targets K-12 and higher education educators, and the credits count toward degree requirements and professional development mandates.
KIDZ AI Inc. (NASDAQ:KIDZ) drew $1.9 million from its previously announced $500 million senior secured convertible note facility to support KIDZBot manufacturing and deployment. The company also formed Classover Robix Inc., a subsidiary focused on embodied AI hardware and distribution, spanning proprietary software, curriculum, teacher training, and multi-OEM hardware partnerships. It said it has begun engaging with nationwide high school networks, addressing a potential U.S. market of 16 million students, and was selected to present on "From AI Tools to Outcome-Driven Learning Systems" at the 2026 AI in Education Conference this December.
KIDZ AI Inc. (NASDAQ:KIDZ) announced it secured $1.9 million in funding through its previously announced $500 million Senior Secured Convertible Note financing facility, before deducting placement agent fees and other offering expenses. The company also formed Classover Robix Inc., an operating subsidiary focused on embodied AI hardware development, OEM partnerships, and institutional campus distribution. The Android versions of the KIDZBot companion apps Kidzqbot and Kidzbricks are operational, while the iOS versions remain under development.
On September 16, 2026, the Shanghai Institute of Biomedical Technology held an AI4S research practice training showcase at its Laohumin Road campus, co-hosted by its Youth League Committee and Party and Administrative Office. Using an annual assessment paper scoring system as the practical task, trainee representatives presented design concepts, development interaction, problem solving, and deployment optimization, with on-site Q&A. Researcher Lian Qiguo commented on accuracy, intelligence, convenience, and aesthetics. Party Secretary Liu Haifeng and Deputy Secretary Wang Zhen attended, with more than 50 staff and graduate students participating.
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Gyeongju in North Gyeongsang Province is converting its AI education offerings from standalone courses into a permanent, structured program open to all residents. The city held an unveiling ceremony for the "Gyeongju Citizens' AI School" on Thursday at the plaza in front of the Gyeongju Smart Media Center. The program has five tracks: a general AI lecture series, a mobile AI classroom, a creative AI application academy, employment and startup training, and an executive course. The mobile AI classroom and creative AI application academy are already running this year, while the other three tracks are set to launch next year.
On September 9, 2026, the Government of Canada launched the AI Literacy Initiative, a C$13 million program with the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii) offering a free three-hour AI literacy course to post-secondary students at participating universities, covering ethics and applicable uses. The initiative has three channels: the post-secondary course, six chapters of "Essentials for Educators" for K-12 students, and "Essentials for Canadians" launching later this year through community channels and the federal job bank. The government predicts reaching one million post-secondary students and more than 3,000 K-12 teachers.
Egypt's Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) and Intel signed a memorandum of understanding for a national AI skills initiative that aims to train one million citizens annually over the next three years. The programme covers foundational AI and creative-thinking training for young people, labour-market readiness training for technical and university students, reskilling and upskilling for employees and job-seekers, and technology-enabled decision-making training for government leaders. It also includes a Training of Trainers component to train 1,500 trainers over three years, delivered through Intel's "AI for Citizens" programme.
eSchool News reported on September 18, 2026 that Catherine Hartmann, a professor at the University of Wyoming, redesigned her upper-level humanities course around oral assessment after a 2023 assignment in a history of meditation course came back with a copy-pasted AI prompt left at the top. Students practiced discussion and oral explanation throughout the semester, and the final oral exam became the culmination of that work. At the University of Pennsylvania, mathematics professor Robin Pemantle has students work calculus problems at the board while explaining their reasoning aloud.
The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) is continuing its AI Education Initiative, covering more than 170 private schools in the emirate with a progressive AI learning framework for students from kindergarten through Grade 12. The framework defines learning outcomes across four areas: understanding AI concepts, critically evaluating AI technologies, designing and developing AI-based solutions, and responsible use. ADEK has also launched the AI Skills Growth Assessment, administered twice a year to students in Grades 4 to 12, and plans to train and upskill 19,000 teachers and educators by the end of the programme.
US voice-first AI tutoring platform Aristotle announced a $5 million seed round led by True Ventures, with participation from Wicklow Capital and angel investors from Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Ramp, and Cognition. After a closed beta, the product launched nationally, during which more than 1,000 students completed over 1,500 hours of one-on-one tutoring. The funding will be used to expand the product, grow the team, and bring its voice-first AI tutor nationwide.
On the afternoon of September 15, 2026, the Cyberspace Administration and the Data Bureau of Xinghua jointly held the 2026 Xinghua Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence Training Program, attended by heads of cybersecurity responsibility offices from municipal departments and directly affiliated units. The training, themed "Cybersecurity for the People, Cybersecurity by the People — Intelligent Era, Cybersecurity Escort," covered government cybersecurity and AI applications, including legal interpretation, cybersecurity responsibility systems, incident response procedures, and hands-on instruction on AI tool use and government office optimization.
Adobe announced it is expanding its AI and digital skills programs across India, reaching 7.8 million students and teachers in 2026. The program works with seven state governments—Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Assam, Bihar and Tamil Nadu—along with UNICEF and learning platforms, providing Adobe Express for Education and Digital Academy resources and supporting teacher training. Adobe said the initiative aligns with India's National Education Policy and expects to reach three million learners globally in 2026 and 30 million by 2030.
UCL and the University of Mauritius have agreed a new partnership to support AI education and practical skills development in Mauritius. Following approval from the Mauritian Cabinet, the MoU establishes a three-year framework for the universities to coordinate student projects, develop teaching pathways and share outcomes. Mauritius becomes the first country in UCL's IXN Global South-South Programme, with plans for an AI Engineering Lab at the University of Mauritius and a local UoM-IXN network. The inaugural meeting took place on 4 August 2026 in Mauritius, where nine UCL students presented offline prototypes.
The Asean Foundation said AI Ready Asean is entering its second phase, which will provide applied AI training to more than 1.7 million K-12 teachers, university students and faculty members across Southeast Asia through 2028. The phase shifts from basic AI awareness to applied learning in teaching, learning, research and workforce preparation, and has been endorsed by the Asean Senior Officials Meeting on Education. The program is implemented by the Asean Foundation with AVPN, supported by Google.org and the Asian Development Bank, and will develop locally adapted curricula with local partners.
The Yancheng Finance Bureau issued a correction notice on September 17, 2026, revising the procurement document for the digital media and AI industry academy project at Jiangsu Yancheng Technician College. The revision changes the integration target of the course resource systems from the "Shenzhou Wenke AI Teaching Platform" to an "AI hardware training platform," and renames the "Ascend AI smart car practical course resource system" to a "domestic chip-based smart car practical course resource system." The original announcement was dated September 3, 2026, under procurement number JSZC-320900-ZBZA-G2026-0003.
On September 16, NetEase Youdao showcased its AI Agent product matrix covering office, learning, and marketing scenarios at the “NEXT, AGENT” AI Open Day. The company released Lobster AI 2.0, compatible with the OpenClaw 2.0 ecosystem, adding Sites and Teams features and adopting usage-based pricing. It also launched OpenPods AI earphones with real-time translation in over 20 languages and meeting-note-to-task conversion. Youdao announced the Ziyue Live interpretation model and open-sourced a streaming ASR model, and introduced the human-AI collaboration agent “Youdao Youju.”
Atlanta Public Schools is drafting a new artificial intelligence policy that would bar students from using chatbots like ChatGPT to complete assignments or generate their work, while allowing AI use tied to a clearly identified instructional objective and permitting teachers to use the tools for lesson planning without entering sensitive information. The proposal was previewed during an August board policy update and will be decided by administrators in a November vote. Separately, all high school seniors are automatically enrolled for the 2026-2027 school year in a 5-to-10-hour Google AI Essentials course on Coursera, with an opt-out window through January 8, 2027, and formal recognition at graduation for those who finish by April 2027.
On September 12, 2026, at the Zil Money Campus in Manjeri, Zil Money introduced AI Future 100 during the event “Kerala AI: From Human Development to Intelligent Governance.” The initiative is intended to support 100 students across Kerala with computers and AI learning opportunities, focusing on access and learning. The article also argues that AI education should include a lesson from the beginning: do not automatically trust the machine, while eligibility, devices, and training details remain to be announced.
Cornell's AI Initiative announced on September 17, 2026 that it is launching AI Integration Pilots, letting colleges experiment with AI adoption and avoidance around core teaching elements in their disciplines. It is also expanding the AI Undergraduate Fellows program, in which students serve as embedded researchers working with faculty to evaluate AI in classrooms. The two initiatives are supported by a $2 million gift from the Dake family and additional support from the Office of the Provost, with pilots running in spring 2027, fall 2027 and spring 2028.
Boston University's English department faculty voted to approve updated learning outcomes, including a provision requiring English majors to demonstrate sustained, original writing generated without AI assistance. Associate Professor of English Joseph Rezek confirmed the vote on Wednesday. The outcome applies at the program level, while instructors continue to set AI rules for individual courses and assignments. The university's revised Academic Conduct Code, effective July 1, states that unauthorized AI use can constitute academic misconduct.
The Gates Foundation this week announced a $1 billion push to expand artificial intelligence, with about $400 million over two years aimed at ensuring AI narrows rather than widens educational disparities, including funding AI tutoring for students in the United States and abroad. Another $100 million will fund building blocks for equitable AI, such as creating datasets in languages AI tools do not yet understand. The pledge was announced alongside the foundation's ninth annual Goalkeepers report and is part of its broader plan, announced last year, to spend $200 billion by 2045.
The University of Dayton in Ohio received a $1.4 million grant from the Gates Foundation to build AI tools that streamline the review process for public school improvement plans. The system will automatically generate feedback on improvement plans for state officials, redirecting time toward coaching district and school leaders. The team also received seed funding to build a concept for another AI tool that serves as a digital memory for schools.
Samsung India launched Samsung Innovation Campus 2026 in Karnataka on September 17, 2026, aiming to train 2,000 youth in industry-relevant AI skills. The programme is run with Nrupathunga University in Bengaluru and offers hands-on AI training, expert mentoring and practical learning to youth aged 18–25. The Karnataka programme has trained over 3,000 people to date, part of Samsung's commitment to empower 20,000 youth across 10 states in 2026.
The Abu Dhabi Department of Education and Knowledge (ADEK) is advancing an AI literacy initiative across more than 170 private schools, covering KG to Grade 12. Learning progresses from screen-free critical and logical thinking in early years to engaging with AI tools, and by Grade 12 students design AI systems and scalable solutions. ADEK has also introduced a standardized AI Growth Test held twice a year for Grades 4-12 and aims to train 19,000 educators.
On September 15-16, 2026, during the SCO Digital Economy Forum, 01.AI signed a cooperation agreement with Kazakh company Q.AI to jointly build an AI education platform with Kazakhstan's Ministry of Education. The project uses an "AI dual-teacher classroom" model with online city teachers leading and local teachers assisting, paired with clicker hardware for real-time classroom interaction. It is currently piloting in 10 schools in Kazakhstan, with plans to cover 500 rural and small schools in the pilot phase and about 2,900 schools by 2029.
In September 2026, the Tongyuehui employment service station in Daqiao Street, Yangpu District, Shanghai held a special skills training event titled "AI Empowers the Workplace, Skills Create Opportunities." The training targeted local workplace professionals and job seekers, using a "theory plus hands-on practice" format to cover lightweight AI tools for office work, copywriting, visual design, and job hunting. The hands-on session included three exercises: resume optimization, copywriting, and creative drawing.
On September 17, 2026, the inaugural AI for Africa's Education Summit, themed "Teaching and Learning Responsibly in the AI Era," was held at the Faculty of Social Sciences Lecture Theatre, University of Lagos, Nigeria, hosted by Kini AI. Educators, students, policymakers and technology innovators called for integrating AI into the country's education system, stressing human oversight, verification and stronger AI literacy among teachers and learners. An AI Literacy and Adoption Report was presented, and the VERIFY Method and 4D Framework were introduced. Organisers committed to training one million Nigerians by 2030.
Indian talent engagement platform Unstop has signed an agreement to acquire AI talent intelligence company PerspectAI; financial terms were not disclosed. PerspectAI combines psychometrics, cognitive and behavioural sciences, artificial intelligence and game-based assessments to produce indicators of employability, role fit and future potential. After the deal closes, PerspectAI's founders and its engineering, quality and applied psychology teams will join Unstop, and its tools are planned to be offered to campus recruiters, lateral hiring teams and large enterprises.
The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Hunan Province has issued a notice on the "Skills Revitalize Sanxiang, One Person One Skill — AI Special Training Action," targeting zero-foundation enthusiasts, AI industry practitioners, industrial workers, entrepreneurial groups and professional technicians. The notice calls for no fewer than 100 quality AI courses, no fewer than 1,000 public AI training, outreach and practical activities, subsidized vocational skills training for 100,000 person-times, and aims to involve 300,000 person-times in AI skills learning within three years. An AI general learning zone is opened on the "Xiangpei Zhitongche" platform, offering online courses such as AI literacy, AIGC applications, smart office and AI applications in intelligent manufacturing.
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The Orangeburg County School District in South Carolina is preparing to bring artificial intelligence into classrooms, aiming to help students understand both the benefits and risks of the technology. The plan starts with teachers learning how AI can be used in education and what to watch out for, with the next phase focused on building staff skills before students receive training. The district also received a grant for MagicSchool AI, giving teachers access to a controlled platform designed for the K-12 environment. Training will teach students to check AI-generated information, recognize potential bias, and be aware of fabricated content and deepfakes.
On September 17, 2026, the AI office of Shanghai's Economic and Information Technology Commission said Shanghai has defined a "3+3+3" training plan for forward deployed engineers (FDEs), targeting three groups: heads of state-owned enterprises and government departments, existing industry engineers, and universities. The plan aims to improve strategic awareness and decision-making, help engineers shift toward combined business insight, consulting diagnosis and engineering delivery, and embed FDE concepts into university courses. Li Jinjin of Shanghai Jiao Tong University introduced the FDE concept to Shanghai and launched the country's first FDE training class; her company has 30 FDEs.
Samagra Shiksha Assam (SSA), in collaboration with Google for Education, will organise an online Google AI Education Educator Series for teachers across Assam as part of a three-year capacity-building programme on using AI in teaching. The training runs in two phases on September 18 and September 24, 2026, focuses on teaching students from Classes 6 to 12, and includes guided hands-on practice. SSA has directed district education officials to ensure teacher participation, and interested teachers must register online through the Google AI Educator Series registration portal.
Muhammad Hafizu Aiman Jusoh, a teacher at SK Pulat in Kelantan, Malaysia, received the 2026 RISE Educator Award from Taylor's College for his AI and digital learning work with the Orang Asli Temiar community in Pos Pulat. He received RM5,000, while his school was awarded a further RM50,000 project development grant. His Learning House Without a Bell programme combines STEM, artificial intelligence, digital skills, and Temiar language and cultural heritage, including Kampung AI dan Digital, a Digital Temiar Dictionary, and AI Storybook Mathematics. The award was presented on September 12 at the RISE Educator Award & Conference 2026 at Taylor's Lakeside Campus.
On September 16, 2026, voice-first AI tutoring platform Aristotle announced $5 million in seed funding led by True Ventures, with participation from Wicklow Capital and angel investors from Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Ramp, Cognition and others. The company said over 1,000 students completed more than 1,500 hours of one-on-one tutoring in a closed beta, after which it launched nationwide. The platform serves students ages 13–18 across STEM, standardized testing and language learning, and the funding will expand the product, grow the team and bring it to general availability.
On September 14, 2026, the Beijing Intellectual Property Office held a special training session on AI government service consultation applications, attended by government service staff from its departments and affiliated public institutions. The training combined offline and online video conferencing and invited four technical experts from the Municipal Government Service and Data Administration to teach. The experts covered the office's plan for building and evaluating AI government consultation applications, including knowledge base governance and expert evaluation and annotation procedures. Next, the office will supplement and update its government knowledge base, organize business experts to conduct question-and-answer evaluation and annotation, and iterate on the already-launched AI consultation front end.
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On 17 September 2026, Adobe announced it is expanding its creative, digital and AI skills programmes for students and learners in India. The company said nearly 400,000 young people in India have accessed creative and AI-focused digital skills through its partnership with UNICEF's Generation Unlimited, with over 375,000 completing the Design Fundamentals with AI course. Adobe is also working with the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Assam, Bihar and Tamil Nadu to bring Adobe Express for Education and AI learning to thousands of government schools, reaching 7.8 million K-12 students and teachers.
On September 16, Microsoft published five principles for AI in education covering safety and privacy, educator control, student thinking, education systems, and AI readiness. The post also recaps its earlier AFT privacy and safety agreement, which is recorded separately.
Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, assistant professor of human-centered learning technologies at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College, and Sarah K. Burriss, assistant professor of the practice at the College of Connected Computing, published a framework in the journal Educational Researcher. It proposes embedding social, ethical and critical thinking about AI into any lesson through four interconnected components: being, knowing, acting and making. The researchers say the approach differs from existing AI teaching methods that prioritize technical skills and may include only a single lesson on ethics.
From 8 to 10 September 2026, Digital Learning Week was held at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, where UNESCO IITE and UNESCO-ICHEI convened a parallel session on AI and women's leadership in higher education. The Women Leading Change in Africa programme, launched in 2024, has reached more than 3,000 educators across Africa, while Ain Shams University in Egypt reported that over 4,000 faculty members completed micro-certifications, with women accounting for 66%. The two institutes also proposed a next phase, AI-Enabled Empowerment, to extend to Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Arab States, and Latin America and the Caribbean.
A September 16, 2026 report said China's learning tablet market sold 2.287 million units in the first half of 2026, down 14.2% year on year, while AI learning machine penetration rose to 69.7% and average prices rose 8.3% to 3,635 yuan per unit. The report detailed AI product moves by Xueersi, Zuoyebang, Yuanfudao, Gaotu and iFlytek, including teacher agents, student companions, AI reading services and new learning tablets.
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council have forwarded the Ninth Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) for law education by the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Justice, requiring all regions and departments to implement it in light of actual conditions. The plan proposes implementing 'AI plus legal popularization,' promoting AI-assisted generation, intelligent distribution and real-time interaction of law education content. It also calls for building a 'digital-intelligent legal popularization' platform and embedding intelligent legal education modules in government service platforms, public transport facilities and community smart terminals.
AI English learning platform Loora announced on September 16, 2026 that it raised $22 million in Series B funding led by Union Tech Ventures, with vgames and existing investors Emerge, Hearst Ventures, and QP Ventures participating, bringing total funding to $43.25 million. The company says it has taught more than 15 million learners and supported more than 250 million interactions since launching, with revenue more than doubling over the past twelve months and ARR now in the tens of millions. Loora also offers a B2B product for corporations, governments, and universities, which grew from zero to more than 150 organizations in the past year.
On September 16, NetEase Youdao held its NEXT, AGENT AI Open Day in Beijing, showcasing an AI Agent product matrix covering office, learning, and marketing scenarios. The company officially released LobsterAI 2.0, fully compatible with the OpenClaw 2.0 ecosystem, adding Sites and Teams features with usage-based pricing. It also introduced the Ziyue Live interpretation model and the human-AI collaboration agent Youdao Youju. Hi Echo has surpassed 10 million cumulative users and runs on the self-developed Echo HELIX learning system.
MIT's AI Review Committee warned in a report last month that students turning to AI at the first sign of difficulty may get an 'illusion of learning' from chatbot answers, skipping office hours and no longer studying together. A study MIT released last year found that people who used AI chatbots as writing assistants often could not properly recall their own essays minutes after finishing them. On September 2, New York City announced a one-year suspension of generative AI for students from kindergarten through eighth grade, affecting about 600,000 students.
JobKorea, a Korean recruitment platform, reported on September 16 that AI-related job postings in Korea rose 128 percent in the first half of 2026 compared with the same period in 2025. Nondevelopment AI roles grew 325 percent year-on-year and accounted for 21.6 percent of all AI postings, up from 11.6 percent a year earlier. AI content creator postings rose 405 percent and AI education consultant postings rose 195 percent. SK hynix and LG Electronics added AI skills assessments to recruitment, and Kia introduced an AI problem-solving evaluation stage across all job categories.
On September 8, 2026, the “Advanced Training Program on AI Frontier Deployment and Industrial Implementation,” a key project of Shanghai’s professional and technical talent knowledge renewal program, opened at the School of Continuing Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Organized by the Xuhui District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the three-day program targets mid- and senior-level technical professionals, corporate R&D staff, and technical managers in AI, the digital economy, smart manufacturing, and smart services across Shanghai and the Yangtze River Delta. Courses cover large-model frontier deployment (FDE) technology and practice, AI security and data compliance governance, and AI scenario applications, and include a field study visit to DeepBlue Technology.
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LingoAce, a global education technology company, has officially launched Tutor Luna, an AI-native English learning product, and begun promotion in the Chinese market. Aimed at children aged 4-12, Tutor Luna uses a dynamic teaching engine to adjust teaching strategies based on each learner's real-time state. The company reports that a 25-minute single lesson can achieve 60-70 effective speaking turns, a 90% course completion rate, and 70% first-attempt accuracy.
SmartScroll LLC launched Lumi on September 15, 2026, a parent-managed Socratic AI tutor for grades 6-12 whose product rule is not to give the answer. Students have no email, password, or account; parents set up the product, practice happens on the device, and chat stays on-device and is not stored on SmartScroll servers. Parents receive practice and session reports covering skill, minutes, and exit result, but not a full chat transcript. SmartScroll is listed on the ISTE EdTech Index, confirmed live on September 3, 2026.
On September 15, 2026, U.S. First Lady Melania Trump visited Mountain View Elementary School in Jefferson, North Carolina, to announce an Nvidia-backed education initiative. The partnership will provide StudyFetch AI learning platform licenses to 1,500 students in Ashe County over four years and donate 100 Jetson Nano developer kits to local schools for robotics and AI processing projects. Nvidia did not disclose financial figures for the overall commitment and positioned it as a strategic education partnership.
On September 15, 2026, the Liaoning Provincial Development and Reform Commission hosted a provincial AI training session in Shenyang under the theme "AI Empowering High-Quality Digital Economy Development." More than 150 responsible officials from provincial department offices attended, and Wang Peng, R&D Vice President and Chief Architect of Huawei's Government One-Net Corps, gave a specialized lecture. The commission said it will continue holding AI training sessions for prefecture-level cities in batches and by theme.
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TutorCloud AI announced on September 15, 2026 the appointment of Dr. Prannay G Sharma as Vice President, Partnership – India. Sharma has over 26 years of experience in India's EdTech and education sectors, having held senior leadership roles at Sri Chaitanya, Vedantu, Aakash-BYJU'S, FIITJEE, Narayana Group and MT Educare, and also served as a Mathematics faculty member. He will lead national sales strategy and multi-city operations, building commercial teams to expand market penetration across India. The company said the appointment supports its accelerated expansion in India and deeper partnerships with schools and education stakeholders.
On September 15, the "National Elderly Legal Education Tour" launched in Beijing, with its first stop ceremony held in the Longfusi neighborhood of Dongcheng District. Guided by the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Justice, and hosted by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the National Aging Office and the China Aging Association, the campaign starts in Beijing and will roll out themed activities in 13 provinces. It focuses on AI face-swapping and voice-changing scams and private-domain livestream fraud, promoting fraud detection and prevention methods, and will use AI, short videos and livestreaming to open online legal education classes.
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On September 10, Dongguan held a citywide basic education work conference and issued the Dongguan Education Development 15th Five-Year Plan and the Dongguan Basic Education Key Task List. The plan sets a goal of basically completing a high-quality education system by 2030 and lays out 30 key tasks, including implementing an AI education pilot program and advancing AI education across all grade levels. The task list sets six sections and 32 tasks for the period from the fourth quarter of 2026 to 2027, including building new advantages in "AI plus education."
On September 11, 2026, Zoucheng Jiejiaoshan Primary School held a themed training session on AI-empowered teacher professional development, organized by subject and in separate sessions for mathematics and comprehensive-subject teachers and for Chinese-language teachers. Trainer Wang Dandan covered pre-class preparation, in-class teaching, post-class evaluation and reflection, and teacher-student interaction, demonstrating tools on the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools, including Penguin Teacher Assistant, Feixiang Teacher, Jiuzhang Math Intelligent Diagnosis, and Yuxiaoyuan. Principal Zhao Jixiang reminded teachers to review AI-generated content before use rather than copying it directly.
On September 13, the 2026 Beijing Youth Artificial Intelligence Application Practice Activity held its honors release at the Beijing No. 8 Middle School Jingxi Campus in Mentougou District under the theme "Co-creating the Future with AI." Co-hosted by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology, the municipal education commission, the Communist Youth League Beijing Committee and the Mentougou district government, the event involved teachers and students from 201 schools across 16 districts plus Yizhuang and Yanshan, received 963 entries, reached 18,000 beneficiaries, and advanced 180 entries to final evaluation. Beijing Jingshan School Jingxi Experimental School released the Zhisheng Wanwu curriculum at the event.
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The Gates Foundation announced in its 2026 Goalkeepers Report that it will invest at least $1 billion over the next two years to expand access to AI. Forty percent of the funding goes to education, supporting AI tutoring to personalize student learning and teaching tools for classrooms in the United States and other countries. Another 40 percent supports healthcare, 10 percent agriculture, and 10 percent digital foundations for equitable AI, including datasets in poorly represented languages.
The Songjiang District Education Bureau in Shanghai issued the district's 15th Five-Year Education Development Plan on September 15, 2026, aiming to build a high-quality education system aligned with the modern Songjiang of science, culture and ecology by 2030. The plan sets digital education targets including 100% coverage of smart teaching environments, digital teaching resources, qualified teacher digital teaching ability, and AI-enabled school-based teacher training. It also calls for advancing STEM education and gradually ensuring every primary school has at least one science teacher with a master's degree in a science or engineering field.
Tianli International Holdings Limited (HK:1773) announced the completion of an internal reorganization transferring 100% of the equity in Sichuan Qiming Daren Technology Co., Ltd. from Qiming Daren (Zhuhai Hengqin) Education Technology Co., Ltd. to Shenzhen Qiming Daren Technology Co., Ltd., an indirect wholly owned subsidiary. Sichuan Qiming Daren remains under the company's full control and is now held directly within the group's foreign-owned structure, with no change to the consolidation of its financial results. The company said the move is designed to separate and professionally manage Sichuan Qiming Daren's education technology and artificial intelligence business from the group's other education services operations.
On September 15, 2026, LearnEnglishAbc.com announced the worldwide expansion of its ESL learning platform for students, teachers, tutors, families, adult learners, and institutions. The expansion includes a free plan, a 14-day free trial, structured English lessons, 164 graded books, read-aloud narration, songs with lyrics, and access to HOPE AI Tutor. The platform says it has reached 39,000 registered learners and 3,000 paying subscribers, with membership starting at $3.99 per month.
Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Education launched the Digital Training Academy (DTA) in Abuja, a six-month programme to train 32,000 Nigerians for free in artificial intelligence, machine learning, software development, cybersecurity, cloud computing, IT automation, natural language processing and quantum computing. The ministry received 72,850 applications from the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, with 19,699 applicants meeting entry requirements and 16,000 selected for the first cohort. Participants will access international learning platforms including Coursera and Pluralsight and pursue professional certifications from Google, IBM and Huawei. The initiative is implemented with the National Open University of Nigeria and Yaba College of Technology.
On September 15, 2026, a report republished by PEdaily and originally from Temperature Chronicle said a 30-person startup in Shandong focused on custom AI-enabled courseware, AI digital literacy courses and VR device sales to schools, having customized AI-enabled courseware for 2,000 to 3,000 teachers over three years at prices from 800 to 10,000 yuan per order. The report said whether AI is used has become a hard criterion in teaching competition reviews, leading some teachers to pay for outsourced courseware. After visiting more than 30 schools, the company found idle VR devices to be common, with actual buyers mostly universities in Guangdong.
AcademyAI has raised £1.65 million in a pre-seed funding round to assess and boost employees' AI skills. The platform assesses employees against a six-axis AI capability framework built with the Alan Turing Institute Methodology, identifying gaps in critical thinking, judgement, prompting, evaluating outputs and building skills, then delivers personalised micro-learning and practical use cases built around each person's real role. Training consists of five-minute applied modules that are role specific and rooted in an organisation's context, tools and language, with the platform powered by underlying AI models and AI generated content.
BNV Solutions showcased its multi-agent AI transformation education platforms, led by DuoMath and the duoAX suite, at the Techsauce Global Summit 2026 held at QSNCC in Bangkok, Thailand, from August 26 to 28, 2026. DuoMath captures high-resolution time-series data including stroke coordinates, timestamp intervals, pen pressure, and angle via a digital pen, processes inputs through an on-device-first Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition engine with a Vision LLM fallback, and verifies structural equivalence using a server-based SymPy symbolic computation engine. The platform breaks down learning data into 12 structured indicators across cognitive, affective, metacognitive, and pedagogical domains, and when mastery of a concept drops below 60%, a knowledge-graph backtracking algorithm traces prerequisite dependencies and auto-generates equivalent transfer questions.
Dong-eui University announced on September 15 that it signed a business agreement on August 29 with 14 Busan-area organizations to establish an 'AI Edu Tech Education Platform Governance' mechanism. Participants include the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education, the Busan Metropolitan Childcare Center Association and the Silla University Women's Studies Institute, covering education, childcare and edutech. The parties will combine educational infrastructure with AI technology to grow the regional education ecosystem and cooperate in fostering the edutech industry in the southeastern region.
During the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services, the Beijing RISC-V Digital Infrastructure Innovation Center and Beijing Beinengda, a company in the Zhongguancun Fengtai Park, launched the city's first AI Future Learning Space at the education services exhibition area, presenting a complete EPC turnkey delivery. The space is built on the RISC-V open-source technology ecosystem and integrates domestic computing power into basic education teaching scenarios, creating two core teaching scenarios: a K-12 AI laboratory and a future classroom. The K-12 AI laboratory covers four teaching scenarios: labor and technology courses, AI interactive physics, chemistry and biology experiments, AI general courses, and embodied intelligence innovation.
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The College of Arts and Sciences and Syracuse University Libraries have launched the AI Literacy Digital Badge, a free, self-paced microcredential available exclusively to A&S undergraduates. Designed by faculty across the humanities and sciences, the online modules cover how generative AI tools work, how to evaluate AI-generated information and how AI is used across disciplines, with each module taking about 30 to 60 minutes and no prior AI experience required. Completers receive a digital credential shareable on résumés, LinkedIn profiles and professional portfolios.
Penn State's College of Education has named Priya Sharma, associate professor of learning, design and technology, as its faculty director for AI Literacy and Innovation, effective Aug. 1 for a two-year term. She will work with interim associate dean for faculty affairs Susan Land and faculty across the college to advance faculty AI literacy and support thoughtful, ethical uses of AI in teaching and research. Dean Gwendolyn Lloyd said the role will help faculty navigate AI's opportunities and challenges and serve as a connector between faculty and academic leadership.
The opening ceremony of the 2026 National Cybersecurity Week was held on September 14 in Jinan, Shandong, where the Youth Development Blue Book: National Survey Report on Internet Use by Minors was released. The report says China has 198 million minor netizens with a 98.3% internet penetration rate, and the urban-rural penetration gap has narrowed to 0.4 percentage points. The survey shows 78.5% of surveyed minor netizens use AI daily for study, creation or entertainment, and 83% of surveyed teachers worry about students misusing AI.
On September 14, the "Million Talents Gather in Guangdong" 2026 cyber talent job fair was held at the Guangzhou International Campus of South China University of Technology, jointly hosted by the Guangdong Provincial Talent Office, the Provincial Cyberspace Administration, the Provincial Education Department and the Provincial Human Resources and Social Security Department. Nearly 120 companies offered more than 4,000 on-site positions, while the online "Yue Employment" section gathered 134 companies with over 7,000 positions. Some roles specifically target AI, focusing on candidates' ability to use AI tools, AI Agent-related projects and learning ability.
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The final of Hebei Province's "Skills Light Up the Future" AI Trainer (Data Annotator) Vocational Skills Competition was recently held at Shijiazhuang University, co-hosted by the Hebei Provincial Data and Government Services Bureau, the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, the Provincial Department of Education, and the Provincial Federation of Trade Unions. The competition aligns with Level 3 (senior worker) of the national vocational skills standard for AI trainers, features employee and student groups, and uses a dual assessment of theoretical knowledge and practical skills across five tracks: images, video, speech, text, and 3D point clouds. More than 1,100 contestants registered, 183 advanced to the provincial final, and 9 of Shijiazhuang's 14 contestants won awards.
On September 14, 2026, transcosmos announced it deployed trans-AI Tutor, its AI-powered learning solution developed in South Korea, in a financial services project in Vietnam, cutting new agent training from an average of 10 business days to five business days, a 50% reduction. The solution supports agents in repeatedly practicing customer service scenarios through AI-powered role-play simulations and includes INK Test, a voice-based competency assessment. In earlier new agent training at a major home shopping company in South Korea, it contributed to a 9% improvement in three-month retention and a 10% increase in training program satisfaction.
Liaoning Petrochemical University issued an Action Plan for AI-Empowered Education and Teaching, deploying 17 special initiatives across five areas: AI+ majors, AI+ courses, AI+ training, AI+ teachers and AI+ governance. The university also issued an implementation plan for the "First Class of the New Semester" and completed AI teaching innovations in multiple courses during the first week. It developed the "Mengxi Juzhi" petrochemical education large model to bring industry frontiers into the classroom.
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Under Plan No. 4758 of the Hanoi Department of Education and Training, from the 2026-2027 school year, 100% of educational institutions in the city will deploy AI education content for students in grades 1 to 12, with 12 periods per class per school year of core AI content. Some students said they want hands-on practice, AI ethics and information verification; parents want content suited to each age group, with more practice and guidance on proper use.
Cape Town-based education technology incubator Injini has opened applications for its AI for Education Venture Builder and Incubation Program, aimed at prospective founders in South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The eight-month programme will start with 12 teams working on research, product development and live testing, then select five for a three-month incubation from April to June 2027, each receiving $25,000 in equity-free funding. Applications opened on 7 September and close on 27 September 2026, with support from philanthropic funder Coefficient Giving.
Vietnam plans to expand AI education across its school system from the 2026-2027 academic year, following pilot programmes in 2025-2026. In August 2026, the government approved the National Programme for Developing Artificial Intelligence Human Resources, targeting at least 80% of general education students to acquire basic AI knowledge and skills by 2030, at least 80% of vocational learners and all higher education students to receive AI-related training. The AI Education Content Framework issued the same month requires 12 periods of core AI content per year group annually, emphasising information verification, responsible use and critical thinking.
India-based AI education technology company Haus of Intelligence announced on September 14 that its Agentic AI Mastery Program has crossed 1,000 enrolments in its first cohort. The program is a 28-week structured course with three progressive cohorts—AI Builder, AI Architect and AI Operator—priced below ten thousand rupees for a single enrolment with lifetime access. The company says learners range from ages 13 to 70, including students, working professionals and business owners.
On September 2, 2026, New York City announced a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI use for public elementary and middle school students. The same day, Los Angeles Unified School District announced restrictions on generative AI tool access on all student-issued devices across all grades for the 2026-27 school year. The next day, the American Psychological Association released a report recommending thorough analysis of edtech tools and citing generative AI as a particular risk.
The Huaibei Human Resources and Social Security Bureau issued a notice soliciting construction plans from market entities for the municipal-level Employment and Entrepreneurship Empowerment Center, with submissions open from September 15 to September 30, 2026, at 17:00. The proposed content includes an AI digital service agent for intelligent recruitment, an AI digital interviewer, and employability assessment services for local college graduates and job seekers, using online adaptive testing combined with AI scenario-based evaluation, each with a three-year service period. The solicitation results will serve only as a reference for project procurement.
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The European Institute of Management and Technology (EIMT) announced it will offer its US$2,000 Post Graduate Certificate in Applied AI for Business Leaders at no additional cost to its MBA and DBA learners globally. The 26-week programme covers practical, no-code capabilities in Generative AI and Agentic AI, spanning business strategy, AI-powered decision-making, automation and responsible AI. EIMT said learners can add the specialised AI qualification without paying a separate programme fee.
TAL has upgraded last year's single-session AI experience class into a 10-lesson AI introductory series covering text-to-text, text-to-image, text-to-video, AI plus hardware, 3D modeling and AI critical thinking. In 2026 the program has recruited volunteer teaching teams from more than 50 universities and reached 56 primary and secondary schools nationwide for offline teaching, with all 10 lessons also available free on Xuexi Qiangguo. Last year the course reached rural primary school classrooms in more than 120 schools through 29 university volunteer teaching teams.
To implement the Fujian 'AI Plus Manufacturing' Action Plan (2026-2028), the first session of the AI Plus Manufacturing skills training series, hosted by the Fujian Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology, opened in Fuzhou on September 11. About 100 representatives from manufacturing enterprises, AI service providers and industry associations attended on site, while nearly 1,200 joined online via livestream. Experts from CAICT, China Telecom and Huawei were invited to teach policy interpretation, large model and agent technology trends, and practices such as industrial agents and visual quality inspection. Ten sessions are planned across the province from September to December.
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Education consulting nonprofit Instruction Partners released a large-scale evaluation of AI-powered learning tools, including 16 deep dives into individual products, covering 20 tools and 16 school systems, with interviews of teachers, students, district and building leaders, and product developers. The analysis found the biggest risks from general-purpose chatbots, which students may use to avoid effortful thinking, while purpose-built instructional tools showed more promise but none was ready to do the pedagogical job independently.
An International Labour Organization report says global youth unemployment among 15-to-24-year-olds rose to 12.4% in 2025 from 12.3% in 2023, equivalent to about 67 million people. The share of young people not in employment, education or training (NEET) edged up to 20%, more than 257 million people. The ILO estimates 6.1% of jobs held by people aged 15 to 29 are in occupations most exposed to AI-related changes; if 10% of those jobs disappeared, about 5.6 million young workers could face unemployment, career changes or exit the labour force.
Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel, speaking at the close of the two-day AI Manthan 2.0 at CSJMU in Kanpur, asked state universities to prepare time-bound AI roadmaps covering education, research, administration, healthcare, agriculture and student skills. She said AI should be integrated across subjects rather than taught only as a standalone course, and stressed teacher AI-readiness and indigenous AI built on Indian data. The event announced an AI Policy Advisory Group and an AI Implementation Group of vice chancellors, with the advisory group chaired by Prof PP Chakrabarti of IIT Kharagpur.
LG Uplus said on Sept. 14 that it will hold the "I-Dream Challenge LG Uplus AI Plus Camp" with South Korea's Ministry of National Defense at Konjiam Resort in Gwangju, Gyeonggi province. A total of 303 people will take part, including 110 students in grades 4 to 6 and 193 guardians, under the theme "Mission: Protect Mom and Dad, Little AI Guardians." Students will attend a generative AI magic performance, join AI experience programs and take part in an AI hackathon, building a "guardian robot" with sensors and coding, creating presentation materials with AI and presenting their results with mentoring support.
SK AX announced on September 14 that its self-developed generative AI education and certification programs, AI Literacy and AI Bootcamp, were recognized as Level 2 and Level 1 government-recognized corporate qualifications, respectively, and it received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award. The award ceremony took place on September 11 at the Human Resource Development Conference at COEX Magok in Seoul. SK AX said this is South Korea's first case of a company's AI competency certification system receiving government recognition, and it plans to expand the system to general companies and educational institutions.
Nhan Dan Online reports that Vietnam piloted the introduction of artificial intelligence in schools during the 2025-2026 academic year, with nationwide implementation planned from the 2026-2027 academic year. The report says the biggest question now facing the education sector is no longer whether AI should be taught, but how to teach and learn so that learners truly master the technology.
Greece introduced new rules governing artificial intelligence use in schools, setting clear limits on how students and teachers can use tools such as ChatGPT in the classroom. The framework follows a year-long pilot in around 20 public and model high schools, keeps AI use voluntary, and bars AI from grading and performance assessments. Schools must designate an AI Use Coordinator, and entering minors' names, photographs, voice recordings, grades and health information into AI applications is prohibited.
Xiangcheng Economic Development Zone in Suzhou has been named a UNESCO AI Education Demonstration Zone for Asia-Africa Youth and received a plaque. Shenzhen Dianmao Technology Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese STEM education company, has simultaneously moved its Suzhou regional subsidiary into the zone. The project is located on the second floor of Section 6, Cailianli Commercial Plaza, 2900 Xiangcheng Avenue, Xiangcheng District, with a floor area of 266 square meters. Codemao states it has applied for more than 770 patents, registered over 2,800 copyrights, served more than 70,000 schools nationwide, and accumulated over 43 million users.
BRICS leaders on Saturday endorsed sharing best practices in education on the human-centred use of emerging technologies including artificial intelligence, and discussed further exploration for the development of the BRICS University Global Ranking and Evaluation System. The declaration welcomed the outcomes of the 13th BRICS Education Ministers' Meeting in Bhubaneswar and supported continued cooperation through existing mechanisms including the BRICS Network University. Leaders also encouraged sharing best practices and cooperation in early childhood care and education, foundational literacy and numeracy, mutual recognition of qualifications, digital literacy, and the safe, ethical, human-centred use of AI in education.
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BRICS countries adopted the New Delhi Declaration at the BRICS Summit held in Delhi on September 12-13, 2026. The declaration backs safe, ethical and human-centred use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, in education, alongside mutual recognition of qualifications, academic and professional mobility, digital literacy and stronger institutional partnerships. It also supports exchange and scholarship programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels through existing mechanisms such as the BRICS Network University.
Eight Korean colleges, including Keimyung College University, and EBS jointly developed a course titled "AI Ethics Stories in Everyday Life" as part of a college innovation support project. The eight colleges and EBS co-designed the learning objectives, course content and assessment framework, with each college contributing lecture topics and faculty based on its expertise. The consortium plans to expand credit recognition beyond participating institutions and extend the program into AI education and certification for community members. It is the second joint achievement by the eight colleges and EBS, following last year's AI Office Competency Micro-Degree program.
Bihar is preparing a new skill development framework for undergraduate students under the National Education Policy (NEP), focusing on artificial intelligence, practical skills and industrial training. The initiative is being prepared by the Governor and Chancellor's Secretariat and is expected to be introduced across universities in the state. A Student Skill Development Cell would be established in every university, and the plan covers students in 268 constituent colleges, including industry-linked training, guidance from experts with AI company experience, and an Apprenticeship Embedded Degree Programme (AEDP).
The 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services education exhibition was held at Shougang Park under the theme "Education Power, Smart Innovation for the Future," with two zones for international cooperation and smart education. The second batch of the "Jingwa" education agent matrix was unveiled, covering classroom assistance, personalized learning, campus governance and public education services. A Beijing Municipal Education Commission official said AI adoption among Beijing primary and secondary school students has reached 91%, and the city has been approved to build a national AI (education) application pilot base.
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On September 11, 2026, International STEAM Research (ISR) received the Special Recognition Award for AI for Social Impact at the TOI AI Quotient Awards, organized by The Times of India. Led by Kolkata-based educationist and AI entrepreneur George Panicker, ISR has introduced STEAM labs and educational toolkits in schools across India and runs teacher-training and community outreach programs. The award, presented by entrepreneur Anupam Mittal, recognized ISR's work combining science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics education with artificial intelligence to expand learning opportunities.
The Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone Authority (BJFEZ) announced on September 11 that, as the first joint project under the Supra-regional Anchor Project Partnership Agreement signed on September 1, it will provide AI education for employees of resident companies in collaboration with Changwon National University. The program consists of four sessions held every Friday at the BJFEZ first-floor promotional hall until October 16, covering generative AI, prompt engineering, industrial artificial intelligence, and AI-based innovation in manufacturing and logistics. A total of nine organizations and groups are involved, including the anchor project teams of Pusan National University, Changwon National University, Korea Maritime & Ocean University, and Inje University.
The Haizhu District AI Scenario Working Group Office in Guangzhou issued a notice on September 11, 2026, calling for the first batch of AI application scenarios in the district, with applications due by September 30, 2026. Applicants are enterprises or institutions acting as demand-side or technology-side parties, with project sites in Haizhu District and no restriction on registration location, covering transportation, emergency response, healthcare and education. The AI plus education category includes smart teaching, personalized and adaptive learning, intelligent assessment, academic diagnosis and learning path planning, virtual simulation experiments, smart education management, teacher professional development, special education support and mental health monitoring. Selected scenarios can apply for rewards under the district's large model application rules and receive order recommendations and matchmaking on the district AI scenario trading platform.
The ASEAN Foundation is expanding AI Ready ASEAN into a broader regional effort that aims to train more than 1.7 million students, teachers and university staff by 2028. Backed by AVPN, Google.org and the Asian Development Bank, the new phase moves from awareness-building to hands-on learning, responsible adoption and localised curricula. The initiative now sits within the AI Opportunity Fund: Asia-Pacific, launched in 2024 with a $35 million budget, which had trained more than 500,000 workers and 50,000 small businesses by the end of June.
US nonprofit Instruction Partners released the first findings of its AI in Action Learning Tour on September 11, 2026. Co-founder and CEO Emily Freitag and a colleague spent six months starting in January visiting 16 school systems in seven states, observing students in AI-enabled lessons and teachers teaching with AI, and interviewing more than 100 teachers, school system leaders and ed-tech CEOs. The report covers 20 student-facing AI products already in classrooms, grouped into general-purpose chatbots, education platforms and targeted instructional tools.
On September 10, the award ceremony of the 8th Pudong New Area Artificial Intelligence Innovation Application Competition was held at the Pudong New Area Workers' Innovation Practice Service Center. More than 8,000 contestants from home and abroad registered, with total participation reaching nearly 25,000 people, and 235 projects were collected. The competition debuted the "Super Individual · AI + Medical Health Bootcamp," with 53 workers receiving vocational skill certificates from the medical health training camp and 50 workers receiving "Intelligent Agent Industry Application Specialist" vocational skill certificates.
On September 11, at the 2026 China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS), New Oriental released Guji App, an AI growth simulation product. The product targets parents as core users and includes an AI dialogue tool called Huixianggu, offering personalized parenting consultation and a space for deep reflection to help parents understand their judgments and responses when communicating with their children. New Oriental participated in CIFTIS for the seventh time, bringing its education, lifestyle and cultural tourism segments together for the first time.
On 11 September 2026, UNESCO announced formal partnerships with Ghana TVET Service and the Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) to lay the foundation for nationwide expansion of AI EmpowerED, a teacher training initiative under UNESCO's Global Skills Academy. The initiative is supported by Microsoft Elevate, KPMG International and Tablet Academy and uses a train-the-trainer model. Since the pilot phase, more than 30 master trainers and around 3,300 learners have completed their learning journeys and earned Microsoft certifications in AI and digital skills. Phase two will bring training to around 140 TVET institutions in four consecutive three-month cycles, with national stakeholders aiming to reach up to one million TVET educators and learners by the end of 2027.
At a press conference for the MIIT's special action plan on 'AI + Software', a reporter raised pressure on software practitioners from the spread of intelligent coding and public discussion of 'AI replacing programmers'. Lyu Weifeng, vice chairman and secretary-general of the China Software Industry Association, said the issue draws high public attention and the association takes it seriously, noting that pure coding execution carries less weight while requirements rise for needs understanding, architecture design, system integration, quality and security control. He said next steps include guiding firms to carry out job redesign alongside skills training, deepening industry-education integration to cultivate interdisciplinary talent, and supporting practitioners' transition to higher-value roles.
On September 9, 2026, the Guangxi regional CPPCC held a consultation meeting on key proposal handling, chaired by Vice Chairman Ou Yujun. Earlier this year, a proposal by the Guangxi Committee of the China Zhi Gong Party on breaking the "structural shortage" of AI talent was listed as a key supervised proposal, and three other proposals on AI-enabled vocational education, full coverage of AI literacy education in primary and secondary schools, and AI education were listed as related proposals. The regional education, science and technology, human resources and social security, and data departments reported progress and next steps.
Luis Buenaventura, a member of the Blockchain Council of the Philippines, has developed Hiraia, an open-source AI science tutor that runs fully offline on entry-level Android phones costing around $100, supporting Tagalog, Bisaya, and English. Built on Sea AI Lab's Sailor 2 model and a continued-pretraining fork of Qwen 3.5-2B, the app includes over 40,000 science facts and 30,000 illustrations aligned with the Department of Education's MATATAG curriculum. The project received a 1 million peso research grant from the Tether Foundation and is currently in early alpha (v0.3.1), with the developer seeking academic partners for classroom pilots.
Maryland's SB 720, passed in the 2026 legislative session and effective June 1, 2026, requires school districts to establish policies governing classroom AI use. After the Maryland State Department of Education issued guidance, schools must implement policies within 120 days, with most districts expected to comply this month. The law also created the Maryland AI Education Collaborative on AI in K-12 Education, whose first report is not due until December 1, 2027.
Diembassy Inc., based in Kitchener, Ontario, announced on September 10, 2026 that its AI Institute has begun offering professional certificate programs. The programs target professionals worldwide and use structured learning to build practical AI literacy, covering AI fundamentals, generative AI, workplace applications, AI-powered productivity, responsible AI use and identifying opportunities where AI can improve business processes. Diembassy CEO Linda Pajoel said AI is evolving too quickly for professionals to rely on informal learning alone.
UNICEF Mongolia has issued a request for applications from a civil society organization to implement a nationwide hybrid coding and AI skills bootcamp for secondary-school students, with an application deadline of September 15, 2026. Building on the "Girls Code" summer bootcamp experience, the 2026 program expands to both girls and boys and includes online learning, mentorship, practical projects, and an in-person capstone showcase in Ulaanbaatar. The indicative budget is $15,000, and applicants must have experience in adolescent digital skills, coding and AI education, and nationwide hybrid delivery.
Indian-origin alumni Anuradha and Vikas Sinha have donated USD 20 million to their alma mater, the University of North Texas (UNT) in Texas, with a focus on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. UNT will establish the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics as an academic and research hub focused on AI, intelligent systems and data analytics. The gift will create six permanent endowments supporting college leadership, student scholarships, endowed professorships, entrepreneurship and incubation, advanced research and emerging technologies.
Global education market intelligence platform HolonIQ released its 2026 Southeast Asia EdTech 50 list, recognizing 50 fast-growing innovative education technology startups. Singapore accounts for half of the featured companies, Vietnam ranks second with 18%, and Indonesia fell to 12% from 38% in 2020. Nine Vietnamese companies made the list, down from 26% last year, with AI Hay, KidsOnline and Tudy retaining their spots.
A bipartisan group of 35 New Mexico state lawmakers sent a letter on Aug. 25 to Public Education Department Secretary Mariana Padilla, calling for greater transparency and additional independent testing to evaluate how accurately Amira, an AI literacy testing tool, measures students' reading proficiency. The tool has been required statewide for K-2 students since the 2025-26 school year, with students reading aloud to a digital avatar. Lawmakers said Amira has collected thousands of student voice recordings and has access to names, genders, birthdays, locations and other sensitive information, and asked that parental consent be required before children use the tool.
Dalian University of Technology has officially unveiled its AI HUB college, a new academic entity directly led by the university and positioned as an interdisciplinary, open, platform-based reform vehicle. The college will build a "3+1" framework around general intelligence, embodied intelligence, intelligent applications and intelligent R&D, and adopt a flat, matrix-style model of AIHUB-research institutes-centers/principal investigators. It will lead AI talent training across the university, build interdisciplinary course clusters and connect undergraduate through doctoral training.
The Jiangsu provincial government issued the High-Level University Construction Plan (2026-2030), setting targets of 1-2 universities entering the world's top tier and 3-5 entering the world-class ranks by 2030. The plan lists a dedicated AI Empowerment for High-Level University Construction program, supporting AI general education, AI-related disciplines and majors, and agent development, and expanding AI applications in teaching assistance, learning assistance, research assistance and administration. The provincial education and finance departments will set annual funding based on each university's AI empowerment results.
The Missouri Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education announced Tuesday a partnership with Google to provide free online courses, Google Career Certificates and specialized AI training to educators, students and job seekers statewide through the Grow with Google program. State agencies will distribute Google for Education AI tools, including Gemini for Education and Gemini Notebook, along with standards-aligned teacher training through the Google AI Educator Series. Missouri has roughly 100,000 active educators and 1.1 million K-12 and postsecondary students, and local school districts and charter schools retain full discretion over whether to implement the tools in their classrooms.
Aptech Limited has entered a strategic collaboration with Get Set Learn (GSL), an Arvind Mafatlal group company, to develop and deliver a specialised Generative AI Filmmaking Course. GSL will lead curriculum and content development, while Aptech will drive delivery, faculty enablement, student enrolment, operations and marketing. The 100-hour programme will be rolled out in phases across Arena Animation and MAAC in virtual and hybrid formats for learners across India, with admissions based on a creative assessment and selection process.
Education Week reports that AI-generated text has entered elementary school classrooms alongside classroom library books and early reading curricula. Tools for educators can rewrite articles to different reading levels or generate decodable text. Jean Gunderson, a Title I reading interventionist in South Dakota, said AI can write stories and comprehension questions in minutes, a task that used to take hours, but she must prompt precisely and sort through all output. Researchers flagged three risks: AI's middle-ground tone, tools struggling to hit requested grade levels, and weak alignment with academic standards and curricula.
Fortune reports that some affluent families pay up to $75,000 per year to send their children to Alpha School, where AI tutors lead core instruction. A spokesperson told Fortune the school has more than 1,200 students and plans to expand to 50 campuses this year. Students spend two hours a day on core subjects with an AI tutor and afternoons in workshops, while human teachers called Guides motivate students but do not plan lessons or grade homework.
On the afternoon of September 8, 2026, Jinshan Primary School in Ganyu District, Lianyungang, held a launch ceremony and first teaching research activity for its AI literacy course, attended by Vice Principal Mu Haidong, academic affairs staff, teaching group leaders, and information technology and related subject teachers. The school issued an appointment letter to teaching group leader Xu Hengsheng, formally establishing an AI literacy teaching research group, and specified at least 8 class hours per school year. The school will also begin exploring student AI literacy assessment across knowledge, skills, thinking, and values.
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar's 100-day report announced AI education from Class 6, a proposed government-led AI university in Bengaluru, a 7.5% reservation for rural government-school students in professional courses, and the filling of 72,000 government vacancies. The Higher Education Department notified draft amendments on September 5 proposing 15% of government seats in professional institutions be reserved for rural students, split into two 7.5% categories, with 15 days for objections and suggestions.
On 9 September 2026, UNESCO awarded its 2026 ICT in Education Prize during Digital Learning Week in Paris to Finland's Generation AI and Brazil's Redação Paraná. Generation AI, developed by the University of Eastern Finland, the University of Helsinki, the University of Oulu and other partners, provides classroom activities and tools to help students understand and critically assess AI systems; its materials have been accessed more than 200,000 times across over 50 countries, and workshops and school interventions have involved 1,500 students and teachers. Redação Paraná, developed by the State Secretariat of Education of Paraná in Brazil, combines AI-assisted feedback with teacher involvement to support writing and revision, reaching approximately 850,000 students across 2,000 schools, with teachers trained to integrate its materials. The two projects were selected from more than 100 nominations, and the 2026 prize focused on approaches that use AI while encouraging learners to retain critical thinking, creativity and independent judgement.
On September 10, 2026, Thunkable announced the conclusion of its artificial intelligence education pilot program in West Virginia. Supported by The Rockefeller Foundation and implemented with the State of West Virginia, the pilot ran in high schools across Monongalia, Kanawha, and Berkeley counties for students in grades 9 through 12. Four schools completed the curriculum, and approximately 120 students developed an estimated 80 final applications to help classmates and communities.
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) reached a legally binding AI safety and privacy agreement with Microsoft. Microsoft commits not to use student or educator data to train AI systems, not to sell data or use it for advertising or product development, and to prohibit AI features designed to foster emotional attachment or dependency. The standards apply starting November 1 to all schools under contract with Microsoft; OpenAI and Anthropic said they are discussing similar agreements with the AFT, while Google has not said whether it will offer similar protections.
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An Indian-origin couple, Anuradha and Vikas Sinha, has donated $20 million to the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, to establish a new college focused on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. The Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics will focus on the development, application and responsible use of AI, intelligent systems and data analytics, with six permanent endowments. The college will have two academic divisions, and UNT also plans an Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute.
Oxford University Press announced on 9 September 2026 that its AI Study Assistant has expanded to Business, Politics and Science Trove, following its October 2025 launch on Law Trove, so all Trove platforms now offer the tool. It generates summaries, answers and targeted quizzes drawn only from textbook content, and the Science Trove version includes textbook images, figures and their original captions. An AI literacy module covering generative AI fundamentals, academic integrity, critical thinking and prompting is available to all Trove users.
East Tennessee State University and Kingsport City Schools were selected as recipients of SCORE's inaugural AI Innovation Fund, with their joint project receiving $50,000. The $450,000 fund supports educator-led projects exploring responsible, student-centered uses of artificial intelligence in education. The project expands a leadership-first AI capacity-building model to assistant principals, instructional coaches, teacher leaders and educator preparation faculty through hands-on training and guided professional learning. The announcement came during SCORE's statewide symposium, "AI in K-12 Education: Keeping Students at the Center."
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Ohio State University President Ravi Bellamkonda revealed on Sept. 9 that the university will partner with Google to establish an on-campus AI space in its Innovation District, calling it likely the largest foundational partnership between Google and any U.S. university. The collaboration will allow access to Google DeepMind's AI R&D lab and launch a first-of-its-kind internship program with Google Public Sector.
Coursera previewed Project Helix, an AI-native skills platform, at its annual FWD customer event on September 8, 2026. The platform aims to help organizations address talent gaps and verify workforce capabilities, drawing on over 30,000 global content partners and instructors from Coursera and Udemy. It will generate adaptive learning paths based on business goals expressed in natural language, with broad availability to enterprise customers expected in the first half of 2027.
Wujin District, Changzhou, relies on the West Taihu AI International Community to host AI activities since 2025. By September 2026, nearly 80 salons with about 6,000 participants and over 80 matchmaking projects were held. AI Club has gathered over 500 local practitioners.
The American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) released the AI Framework for Educator Preparation in September 2026 to help educator preparation programs navigate AI's role in education. The framework covers four interconnected areas: ethical and policy guardrails, clinical practice and implementation, cognitive architecture and advocacy, and professional expertise and human judgment, positioning AI literacy as a matter of professional practice, not simply tech training.
Penn State announced on September 8, 2026, a new tool in Canvas that lets faculty quickly add icons to show whether generative AI use is allowed, limited, or not permitted. The tool, based on icons introduced last year, can be applied at course, syllabus, or assignment level. Use is optional, and an instructor guide is available.
Fengluan Digital Technology recently completed a tens-of-millions-yuan Angel+ round led by Hongruida Investment, with Suzhou Yida Fund and Hexa Capital participating. Funds will be used for prototype development of its first education robot, team expansion, and sales system. Its Huke app, offering math and English content, has nearly 300,000 users.
Telangana schools are shifting focus from whether to teach AI to how to cultivate reasoning first. Pranjali Pathak, co-founder of Pi Jam Foundation, said the nonprofit has reached over 1.8 million learners and collaborates with SCERT on teacher training. Teachers attend four-to-five-day residential bootcamps, and some already use AI for lesson planning.
On September 9, 2026, Wuhu Education Bureau publicized the proposed star ratings for AI in education at 366 primary and secondary schools, with a public comment period until September 16. The assessment follows a 2023 implementation plan and covers all districts and directly affiliated schools.
On September 7, the AI Capacity Building Workshop opened at Peking University, with government representatives from 37 Global South countries attending for six days. It is the first activity under China's pledge of 5,000 AI training slots, featuring 4 themes, 9 lectures, and site visits. Hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and organized by Peking University.
The University of Roehampton announced the introduction of Google Gemini for Education, providing secure and governed AI access for students and staff. The platform includes Gemini and Gemini Notebook, integrated with learning materials and Moodle. Training and guidance will be offered to enhance AI literacy and support teaching and future careers.
Missouri education agencies partnered with Google to offer free AI training and career development programs, including Google Career Certificates and online AI courses, to all residents. Resources will reach K-12 schools, colleges, and job centers, with a dedicated AI literacy curriculum. Districts and charter schools retain discretion over adoption.
On September 9, 2026, the Panjin High-tech Industrial Development Zone Management Committee issued a pre-approval public notice for the Phase I project of the Panjin Zhongbei Education AI R&D Innovation Center. Located at the north of Dongyue South Street and east of Zhonghua Road, the project is constructed by Liaoning Hongfa Industrial Development Co., Ltd., with the notice period ending on September 17.
Ashland University and Ed3 announced a partnership to provide AI literacy and professional development courses for K-12 teachers in Ohio. The courses offer graduate credit and CEUs, launching statewide in June 2026. Ed3 has supported over 20,000 educator enrollments across 48 states.
On September 3, Ainocean signed a cooperation agreement with PTI in Paraguay to build an educational AI data center of up to 1 GW at PARKTEC NARANJAL PY. Its AI Tutor, already in public schools, aims to reach 280,000 students within three years.
17Education released Q2 2026 financial results with revenue of 90.09 million RMB, up 254.6% year-over-year, and H1 cumulative revenue of 190 million RMB, up 302.6%. The company achieved dual profitability for the first time under Non-GAAP and GAAP, with gross margin rising to 69.2%. It launched a teacher-specific AI agent and won a project to deploy smart teaching systems in 110 public schools in Minhang District, Shanghai.
At Zichuan Special Education Center in Zibo, Shandong, teacher Wan Ronghui uses AI avatars for classroom conversation practice and creates virtual scenarios like supermarket shopping. Since December 2023, the school has built a full-campus VR covering 360 points, allowing new students to practice routes. Teacher Wang Liebing developed an AI assistant 'Xiao Yi' supporting voice commands.
Two seniors from Greenville County Schools were invited to Boston to attend the Day of AI Festival as student senators representing South Carolina. Over the summer, students from every state spent weeks researching, talking with educators, and drafting AI legislation. The students presented their work at a committee meeting, highlighting how AI should be used in the classroom.
The Idaho State Board of Education announced seven AI Innovation Awards totaling $645,197 to support AI literacy and responsible AI use projects across Idaho's eight public colleges and universities. The projects were selected from 16 proposals and will launch over the 2026-2027 academic year, funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Accelerate Idaho program.
UNESCO IESALC and UNU-IAS released the study AI Implementation in Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean on 8 September 2026. Drawing on 200 higher education institutions across 19 countries, it finds that 87% of institutions use AI in at least one area of activity, while only 26% have a formal AI strategy. The report will be launched during Digital Learning Week 2026 and calls for stronger governance, digital literacy investment and coordinated action.
Indian-origin engineer couple Anuradha and Vikas Sinha donated $20 million to the University of North Texas to establish the Anuradha and Vikas Sinha College of Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Analytics. The college will be organized around the Division of Applied Intelligence and Informatics and the Division of Information and Learning Applications, and will house the Applied Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Institute. The gift establishes six permanent endowments supporting college leadership, student scholarships, endowed professorships, entrepreneurship and incubation, advanced research and emerging technologies.
Canadian law firm Loopstra Nixon announced it will fully fund enrollment for its 2L summer students in MIT Professional Education's eight-week online course 'Applied Agentic AI for Organizational Transformation.' Students who complete the course will earn an MIT certificate, and the firm's partners are already enrolled in the same program. This initiative aims to equip future lawyers with AI fluency and enhance client service.
A new UNESCO IESALC and UNU-IAS study released on September 8, 2026, covers 200 higher education institutions across 19 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. It finds that 87% of institutions use AI in at least one area, but only 26% have a formal AI strategy. AI use is prevalent in teaching and learning and increasingly supports research, often driven by faculty, researchers, and students.
Samsung Electronics America and the Mark Cuban Foundation released a free AI curriculum for grades 6-12 on September 8, 2026. The seven-session curriculum includes complete lesson plans, student handouts, and background reading. It aims to guide students from AI consumer to builder to evaluator, covering prompting frameworks, fact-checking, data visualization, and ethics documentation. The launch precedes the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow competition and includes professional development support.
The OECD's PISA 2025 study found that students using AI tools daily for homework scored an average of 481 in science, compared to 509 for those who never or almost never used them, a gap equivalent to about 1.5 years of schooling. The study covered over 760,000 students from 91 countries, marking the first assessment after generative AI became widely accessible. Weekly use was associated with better performance than daily use, and teacher-guided critical evaluation narrowed the gap.
On September 8, 2026, UNESCO released a discussion paper 'Sustaining education as a common good in the age of AI: The case for deliberative governance' and five background papers. The paper establishes education as a common good and highlights six directional shifts. UNESCO invites experts, academics, and government officials to contribute perspectives from September to November 2026, with comments due by October 15, 2026. Feedback will inform policy briefs to be released during Digital Learning Week 2027.
On August 28, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Jiangmen and Xinhui District held a training class on AI-era enterprise management innovation for HR managers and other management staff. The training focused on applying AI large models in management mechanism innovation and talent development. This year, the district has conducted 10 special trainings covering about 500 employees.
Pearson and Illinois Institute of Technology announced a collaboration to explore employability pathways and workforce-focused learning credentials, and to develop workforce training and AI education programs. The partnership aims to enhance student employability; specific courses and implementation details have not yet been disclosed.
On September 8, Malaysia's Deputy Secretary-General of Education visited the AI digital classroom at Sentul Chinese Primary School in Kuala Lumpur and handed over a grant of RM10,000. The school has upgraded digital equipment since 2024, with AI all-in-one machines installed in all classrooms and a complete AI digital classroom equipped with AI cameras.
On September 4, the Wuhu Municipal Education Technology Center held a symposium on the "AI Innovative Top Talent Cultivation Plan" at Huicui Middle School, attended by 15 teacher representatives from 11 schools. The meeting discussed the dual-track system of "Wotu Plan" and "Tuoying Plan" to popularize AI education and select potential students. Director Xiao Ling emphasized public welfare principles, and the plan will be refined for implementation.
Brown University's GAITL committee released a report in July 2026, finding that most students use generative AI but worry about long-term cognitive effects, and most syllabi lack clear AI use boundaries. In August, GAITL Phase 2 shared sample syllabus statements and continues to advance recommendations such as updating academic codes.
DGIST in South Korea officially launched the first cohort of its AI Microdegree program in September 2026, targeting IT professionals with about 10 years of experience. The program received 96 applicants for 20 spots, a 4.8-to-1 competition rate. Courses run from September to December in a blended format, with a certificate awarded upon completing six courses.
The Wuhu Education Bureau announced that the Wuhu Smart Education Platform has completed resource iteration, adding a special section for high-quality AI teaching resources, collecting award-winning cases from teachers to serve all teachers and students. Next, it will launch more AI learning resources in batches.
On September 7, Icecream Edu signed a business agreement with Naver Cloud and Klavi to jointly develop and operate an AI-based personalized learning and growth platform. Icecream Edu will provide education-specific AI expertise, learning content, and data, while Naver Cloud and Klavi will offer AI cloud infrastructure capabilities. The three parties plan to jointly sell products to educational institutions and enterprises and participate in public sector AI and big data projects.
On August 28, Global Learning Foundation and STEMLearn.AI launched GLF AI Olympiad 2026 at IIT Bombay campus, targeting students in grades 3-10 across India, aiming to reach 1 million students, a 100x increase from the inaugural year. The initiative is supported by AICTE, IIIT Allahabad, and includes participation from Uttar Pradesh government schools.
IIM Ahmedabad partnered with OpenAI in February 2026 to use ChatGPT Edu for training, practical projects, and industry-related work for students, faculty, and staff. The institute also launched the Krishnamurthy Tandon School of AI and a two-year blended MBA in Business Analytics and AI.
On September 8, 2026, the Ningguo Education and Sports Bureau announced the winning bid for the AI classroom project at the Development Zone Experimental School, with China Telecom Anhui Branch winning at 478,129 yuan. The project number is AHZZCG-2026013, the purchaser is the Ningguo Education and Sports Bureau, and the agency is Anhui Zhongheng Construction Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd.
UAE schools have started implementing a nationwide AI curriculum covering public and private schools. The curriculum includes AI data, algorithms, applications, risks, and ethics, using play-based lessons and real-world applications. The rollout follows government approval.
Kentucky's Council on Postsecondary Education formed an AI task force to make every college student in the state fluent in AI. Eastern Kentucky University's AI strategies director, Dr. Lisa Blue, is working with the state-funded group to spread her AI proficiency pathway across all Kentucky higher education institutions. EKU held its first AI symposium four years ago and launched a 'Living with AI' course last spring.
The University of Hawaiʻi launched a free online course 'Artificial Intelligence for Hawaiʻi' in September 2026, open to the public without affiliation or login. The 12-chapter course covers AI basics, responsible use, education, and industry applications, incorporating Hawaiian values and cultural perspectives. It is part of UH's broader AI strategy.
The Government of Rajasthan, through DoIT&C, has launched an official AI foundational course, free and open to all citizens. The course is bilingual (English and Hindi), delivered via the State LMS with self-paced learning. Completers receive a government certificate.
U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer unveiled a bipartisan plan at George Washington Middle School in Ridgewood, New Jersey, to lock away student cellphones during the school day and use federal grants to build AI labs. The centerpiece is the AI LABS Act, announced with California Rep. Jay Obernolte, which would direct the U.S. Department of Education to create a grant program for K-12 schools to establish AI labs and train teachers. The bill also requires the department to study resource distribution and issue recommendations.
The Macau SAR government's Economic and Technological Development Bureau and the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center jointly launched the 'Innovative Computing Training Pilot Program' on September 4. The program provides five-day computing application training to 28 senior managers and technical staff from certified tech companies, with participants taking the Huawei AI certification exam by month-end and visiting Huawei headquarters.
Injini opened applications on September 7 for an eight-month AI venture builder for education technology, selecting 12 teams from nine Southern African countries for a five-month build phase. Five teams will receive $25,000 each in equity-free funding for three months of incubation. Applications close on September 27.
Recently, the AI-powered job training in Xuhui District, Shanghai concluded with 21 trainees completing a five-day program. The training used AI prompts and Agent Skill dual engines, covering self-awareness, resume optimization, and mock interviews. At the final presentation, 14 trainees received 35 pass cards and reached preliminary employment intentions.
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On August 31, the 2026 Taizhou primary and secondary school students' 'First Lesson' demonstration activity was held at SanShui Junior High School in Jiangyan District, themed 'Wisdom Starts New Journey, Science Creates Future'. During the event, four Unitree robots danced with students, and Associate Professor Zhu Pengcheng from Taizhou University gave a science talk. It was revealed that AI general courses will be fully offered in primary and secondary schools in the new semester.
On September 4, at the 2026 Guanggu AI Talent Conference, the 'AI Photon Plan' was released, aiming to attract and cultivate 408 AI talents over three years, covering leading teams, innovative talents, excellent engineers, and young doctors. Teams can receive up to 5 million yuan, innovative talents 1 million each, excellent engineers 500,000, and young doctors 200,000. The 'Guanggu AI FDE Talent Training Consortium' was also established to train practical talents through real industry projects.
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On September 4, Wangcang County in Sichuan, a targeted assistance area of the Jiusan Society, received a donation of AI laboratory hardware and the 'Tongyu·Tonglab' teaching platform worth 10.25 million yuan. The donor is Beijing Tongyan Zhixue Education Technology Co., Ltd. With this donation, Wangcang will offer AI general education courses in all primary schools according to national plans, with supporting teacher training.
Teach For All is recruiting globally for multiple remote positions, including Chief Learning Officer for AI and Ed Tech and Global Learning Lead, Fellowship Programs. These roles aim to advance global education, AI, and leadership development, with locations across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. The organization currently lists 15 job openings across its global teams.
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The consultation committee for the proposed Karnataka Artificial Intelligence University (KAIU) met for the first time on September 5, chaired by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan. The meeting discussed immediate AI skilling initiatives and a phased roadmap for establishing KAIU, covering areas like generative and agentic AI. The committee plans to offer certificate, diploma, and other programs through industry-academic partnerships.
Sixteen secondary school students in Anambra State, Nigeria, completed a one-month Digital Skills and Girl-Child Empowerment Bootcamp organized by LIFT Initiative at Activ8 Hub Complex, Awka. They learned computer operations, email, office practice, Canva design, and AI for problem-solving. LIFT also held a two-day AI Literacy Class for teachers.
The Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) has endorsed Islamabad Medical & Dental College's (IMDC) initiative to integrate AI into healthcare education. IMDC, in collaboration with Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU), completed its first Clinical AI Healthcare Certificate Program, a four-week course attended by 24 medical and dental students and professionals. PMDC President Prof. Dr. Rizwan Taj attended the ceremony and praised the effort.
The Odisha Higher Education Department signed MoUs with CSRBOX, Nandi Foundation, and OKCL, and launched the 'AI Course for All' program with NASSCOM to provide online AI training to over 100,000 students and faculty. The IBM-CSRBOX project will cover 125,000 students, focusing on 107 remote institutions. Nandi Foundation offers offline training for final-year female students, while OKCL provides 30 hours of English and 10 hours of AI digital training.
Samagra Shiksha, Assam, signed MoUs with Google AI, IIT Madras-Bodhan AI, and others to integrate AI into schools. The plan includes training 100,000 teachers, with IIT Madras-Bodhan AI training teachers of grades 6-12 by May 2027. LEHS-Wadhwani AI will assess reading fluency, EkStep-AXL will provide personalized learning, and Educate Girls will track out-of-school girls.
On September 4, U.S. Rep. Josh Gottheimer announced the bipartisan AI LABS Act in Ridgewood, New Jersey, directing the Department of Education to create a federal grant program to help K-12 schools establish AI labs and train teachers. The bill also requires a study on resource distribution. Gottheimer also supports the UNPLUGGED Act limiting classroom cellphone use and urges broadband prioritization.
On September 4, 2026, the Baoji Municipal Education Bureau website reported that JinTai District Wolongsi Primary School organized all teachers to participate in the 2026 summer teacher training on the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools, focusing on the “AI Application Cases for Teachers (2025)” in the “Digital Literacy Improvement” section. At the start of the semester, the school held sharing activities across subject teaching groups and a summer AI-integrated micro-video showcase for young teachers. Teachers used nearly 20 AI education tools collected in the platform's “Use AI” section to design teaching across lesson preparation, thematic teaching, courseware tools, and evidence-based evaluation, and iterated high-quality master teacher resources from the platform's “Classroom Teaching” section to develop a micro-video resource library for each subject.
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New York City public schools will pause student-facing generative AI software for students up to and including eighth grade for one year in the coming school year, while high school students will receive AI literacy classes twice a year and some can pilot limited AI platforms under educator supervision. Los Angeles Unified School District said the same day it is temporarily blocking generative AI tools on student devices across all grades while it develops a student AI policy during the school year. Together the two districts are the largest in the US.
On September 4, 2026, the Suzhou Education Bureau website reported that Daicheng Experimental Primary School in Suzhou invited Li Fanchang, former dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology at Soochow University and chairman of the Suzhou Artificial Intelligence Society, to teach a first class on the history of AI. The school introduced a personal "New Semester Growth AI Journal" and held an AI growth sharing session focused on emotional adjustment, learning methods, and habit formation, guiding students to talk with AI and create their own journals. Vice Principal Huang Yulei said the activity aims to reduce students' unfamiliarity with and mystery around AI.
Anthropic has opened applications for the Claude Campus Ambassador Programme, offering university students and researchers a $3,600 cash stipend. The programme has three pathways: undergraduates can lead Claude Builder Clubs, master's students can organise Claude Campus Conversations, and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers can lead Claude Science workshops. Ambassadors will work with Anthropic on student communities, workshops, events and AI education activities, and undergraduate ambassadors receive API credits for AI project experiments. Applications are open through Anthropic's official Claude campus programme page.
On September 3, 2026, a two-day international workshop titled "Cross-Cultural Psychology of Learning in the Age of AI" concluded at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) in India. The workshop was organised by SPPU's Department of Education and Extension (DDE) with the German Centre for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New Delhi, the Max Planck Society and the University of Cologne, with Harvard Business Publishing as knowledge partner. Sessions covered technical discussions, research paper presentations and brainstorming on the intersections of AI, cognitive science, education and cross-cultural learning.
On September 4, 2026, Changzhou announced the full rollout of AI general courses in primary and secondary schools, bringing AI into classrooms. The courses cover all schools in the city, aiming to popularize AI knowledge. This is a large-scale local initiative in AI education.
From September 1 to 2, Zhejiang University held its 2026 summer work conference to deploy a new round of Double First-Class construction. Party Secretary Ren Shaobo and President Ma Yanming delivered reports, emphasizing the new round of technological revolution represented by artificial intelligence, proposing to deepen the reform of 'AI + education + technology + governance', promote AI-empowered education and teaching, and cultivate 'people who can create'.
On September 1, Longtian Subdistrict in Pingshan District, Shenzhen, held an on-demand WorkBuddy skills training for Baodeshi Toy Manufacturing, with over 10 middle managers attending. The training was customized within 24 hours by the Da Gongye District Party-Mass Service Center. This year, the center has conducted over 30 AI-themed trainings covering more than 1,200 participants.
In summer 2026, Wolongsi Primary School in Jintai District, Baoji, organized teachers to participate in the National Smart Education Platform training, learning AI application cases. After the new semester began, teaching groups demonstrated AI-integrated micro-videos, with teachers from Chinese, math, and comprehensive subjects using AI tools for lesson preparation, teaching, and assessment, developing a resource library of quality micro-videos.
Recently, the practice of AI-empowered English listening and speaking teaching in Zhuji, submitted by the Zhuji Education Research Center, was selected for the public list of '2026 Smart Education Excellent Cases'. The case uses AI listening and speaking classrooms, now in regular use in 16 schools, covering 92 classes, 58 English teachers, and over 4,000 students. The project adopts a mechanism of pilot verification, scale-up, and dynamic optimization, and has established a tiered training system.
According to Global Brands Magazine, Coursera added 7.6 million registered learners in Q1 2026, surpassing 200 million total users, with quarterly revenue of about $196 million, up 9% year-over-year. Duolingo was named the top US edtech company of 2026 by TIME and Statista, and is investing around $50 million to defend against AI substitutes. Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo now reaches about 1.4 million students.
The Education Department of Gansu Province and four other departments recently issued the 'AI Plus Education Action Plan (2026-2030)', proposing five major tasks. The plan sets goals to build a full-chain AI general education curriculum by 2028, create over 45 national and provincial AI education base schools, and develop over 1,000 typical application scenarios. By 2030, the provincial education network bandwidth will reach 40G and computing resources will be no less than 100P.
Bodhan AI, in partnership with AI4Bharat, released four open AI models covering speech, translation, and OCR across Indian languages. It also launched a Student Tutor Bot for Classes 6-12 and a Teacher Assistant Bot, based on NCERT and SCERT curricula, supporting text and voice in 22 languages. These tools are part of the Bharat EduAI Stack, envisioned as sovereign digital infrastructure.
Nvidia announced the acquisition of open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9303 billion. The platform has over 18 million developers, 3 million models, and 200,000 enterprise users. Jensen Huang said the platform will remain open, supporting multi-cloud and multi-accelerator environments, and emphasized that open-weight models lower barriers, accelerating AI adoption in education and other scenarios.
Doushen Education released its 2026 semi-annual report, with H1 revenue of 525 million yuan, up 16.95% year-on-year; net loss of 24.394 million yuan, compared with net profit of 104 million yuan in the same period last year. AI education business revenue was 114 million yuan, up 664.32% year-on-year and 79.23% from full-year 2025. The company launched AIclass 2.0 and plans to deploy an AI Agent-driven intelligent CRM engine 'Tianshu Platform'.
On September 3, 2026, Carahsoft launched the 'Empowering Tomorrow's Digital Citizens' community for K-12 schools and districts, offering free resources on AI adoption and cybersecurity readiness. Resources include K-12 AI readiness frameworks, cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory guidance, and an AI integration manual. The community also provides an E-rate blueprint, a GrantLeads.AI funding platform, and two books for registered members.
OpenAI Education launched the Learning Lab research network in September 2026 to study AI's effects on learning, teaching, assessment, and education systems. The first convening was held at its San Francisco headquarters with researchers from University of Tartu, Stanford, and others. OpenAI acknowledges existing research is 'early and mixed' and plans to continue the network across future model releases.
Delhi University and AMD signed an MoU to train up to 10,000 students in AI over the next year. Students and faculty will get access to ROCm software, GPU cloud credits, and technical workshops for hands-on learning. The agreement was signed by DU Registrar Dr Vikas Gupta and AMD India Country Head Jaya Jagadish.
On September 3, Lagos Deputy Governor Hamzat called for making AI literacy compulsory for all undergraduates in Nigeria and promoting AI educational assistants supporting indigenous languages like Yoruba and Hausa. He proposed a seven-point AI-in-education agenda. UNILAG's representative noted its AI literacy programs have reached over 14,000 participants.
Ahead of Teachers' Day, ETEducation spoke with experts from Central Square Foundation, Bharti Airtel Foundation, STTAR, CENTA, Azim Premji University and NIEPA about the gap between AI awareness, capability and classroom readiness. CENTA's AI Readiness survey across 16 countries in Asia and Africa found 98% said AI readiness is important for teachers and schools, but only 23% could identify even one AI-ready teacher or school. In Bharti Airtel Foundation's survey, 83.2% of teachers had used AI, with 34.5% using it regularly and 42.4% occasionally while verifying outputs. In CSF's BaSE 2025 survey, 51% of EdTech-using teachers had received technology training, but only 9% said it covered AI tools, and 79% wanted more technology training.
New Oriental, TAL, NetEase Youdao and Gaotu recently released their latest quarterly results. New Oriental reported fiscal 2026 net revenue of US$5.661 billion, up 15.5% year over year; TAL reported fiscal 2027 first-quarter net revenue of US$758 million, up 31.9%; Youdao reported second-quarter net revenue of RMB1.47 billion, up 3.5%, its eighth consecutive quarter of operating profit; Gaotu reported second-quarter net revenue of RMB1.67 billion, up 20.2%, with its operating loss narrowing 38.1%. All four are embedding AI into teaching systems, learning hardware or large-model products.
On September 2, 2026, the Central University of Kashmir (CUK) opened a two-day international workshop on "Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Education" at its Tulmulla campus, organized by its Department of Information Technology alongside an International Academic Partnership Meet. During the event, the university inaugurated an AI Trainer Centre of Excellence, and Vision Digital India's Intel-supported AI Training Mission announced its 99th AI Lab. Several vice-chancellors and guests spoke about AI's impact on education, jobs and the role of teachers.
A cross-sectional study published in Frontiers in Education on September 3, 2026 surveyed 593 university faculty members in China to examine how external support relates to self-reported AI-TPACK. The study used exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and structural equation modeling, with 5,000 bootstrap resamples and 95% confidence intervals for indirect effects. External support was positively associated with self-reported AI-TPACK (β = .238), and perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness played important roles in the indirect associations.
New York City's Department of Education announced on Wednesday a one-year moratorium on student use of generative AI in elementary and middle school classrooms, affecting about 600,000 students, roughly two-thirds of the city's public school enrollment. High school students will take two AI literacy courses each year and may use AI modules in specific educational contexts, but not chatbots. The policy also requires generative AI programs to be blocked or deleted from school software and sets daily screen-time limits on personal devices: 30 minutes for grades three through five and 45 minutes for middle school students.
On September 3, 2026, the "AI Open Mic · Folk Music Special" event, guided by the Women's Federation of Yangpu District, Shanghai, and organized by the Gege AI Songwriting creator community, was held at V Space in KIC. It attracted nearly 100 folk musicians, AI industry practitioners, cultural entrepreneurs, and music enthusiasts, with many parent-child families attending. The event featured guzheng performance and sharing, a parent-child interview, an AI creation practice class, and a folk music AI creation workshop, where participants each completed an AI song within 20 minutes. The district women's federation said it will partner with more tech enterprises and cultural institutions to bring AI literacy education and digital art experiences into communities and families.
New York City Mayor Mamdani and the Department of Education announced a one-year pause on student-facing generative AI software for kindergarten through grade 8, part of a broader review of how students in the country's largest school system use the technology. The mayor's office called it the most far-reaching ban of its kind in the United States. The city also plans to offer AI literacy lessons twice a year for all public high school students and to launch pilots allowing some high schoolers to try a limited set of AI tools under teacher supervision. "Companion" chatbots will be banned for students of all grades.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday that public schools will pause generative AI tools for students in grades 2K through 8 during the coming school year, a one-year moratorium covering all student-facing generative AI software and affecting nearly 600,000 students. Companion chatbots are also banned across all grade levels. High school students will receive twice-yearly AI literacy modules, while educators retain permission to use AI for instructional planning and administrative work.
South Korean AI startup Mindlogic announced on September 3 that it was selected as the AI service provider for the 2026 AI On-Eum Project. The project, jointly promoted by the Ministry of Education and the Korea Student Aid Foundation, will provide generative AI services and educational programs to 120,000 high school students from underserved and rural areas. Starting this month, Mindlogic will deliver multi-LLM generative AI services along with teacher training and student competitions. As of September, 273 elementary, middle and high schools and 92 universities have adopted its AI solutions, with total client institutions reaching 651.
The University of Wyoming announced a contract agreement with BoodleBox, an AI platform designed specifically for higher education, to serve as its university-wide enterprise artificial intelligence platform. The platform gives faculty, staff and students secure access to more than 38 leading AI models through a single environment, with built-in coaching, collaboration and instructional tools. Community awareness and training activities begin this fall, with a full rollout planned for spring 2027.
New York City will place a one-year moratorium on student-facing generative AI for grades 2-K through 8 during the 2026-27 school year, affecting nearly 600,000 children. The district plans to discontinue or disable AI functions in more than 38 previously permitted programs that do not meet new safety and oversight requirements, with student-facing AI tutoring tools restricted and companion chatbots banned across all grade levels. High school students may take part in up to five teacher-supervised pilots, capped at five classes per high school, and will receive two 45-minute AI literacy lessons each year.
In the summer of 2026, the teaching research office of the Zhushan District Education and Sports Bureau in Jingdezhen organized AI literacy education training across all 27 schools in the district, with all teachers participating. The training followed the paths of policy study, tool practice and summary improvement, under a three-tier mechanism of district coordination, school implementation and full participation. At No. 7 Primary School, 86 participating teachers mastered more than two AI teaching tools; No. 12 Primary School achieved a 100% participation rate through online study on the national smart education platform.
Adelaide University announced on 2 September 2026 that its Computer Science Education Research (CSER) Group has joined a global partnership with the UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation to deliver the Experience AI program to teachers across Australia. The program, developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind and funded in Australia by Google.org, provides ready-to-use classroom materials requiring no prior AI knowledge. Research shows 66% of Australian lower secondary teachers already use AI in the classroom, above the OECD average of 36%, while only 32% have access to approved tools.
The Jiangsu provincial government issued the High-Level University Construction Plan (2026-2030), aiming for 1-2 universities to enter the forefront of world-class universities by 2030. It includes a dedicated AI empowerment plan supporting AI general education, discipline development, and intelligent agents, expanding applications in teaching, learning, research, and management. The plan also promotes emerging interdisciplinary fields like integrated circuits and AI, and establishes a special professor program selecting about 150 people annually.
The UAE Cabinet approved implementing an AI curriculum across all public and private schools, following positive pilot results in public schools. The curriculum covers technical foundations, ethics, data, algorithms, practical applications, and risks, and will be shared globally. The government also plans to train 22,000 teachers and educators.
On September 3, 2026, Banco Santander and Coursera announced 50,000 new free online course slots for the Santander | Skills for Work program, open to adults over 18 in 12 countries without requiring bank customers or degrees. Courses cover AI, data analysis, leadership, and more, with 80 Coursera-certified courses available for 12 months. Combined with 50,000 released in August, total reaches 100,000.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) has imposed a moratorium on student use of generative AI on district devices for the current school year, implemented by senior administrators without formal board authorization. New York City announced a ban on student-facing generative AI tools for pre-K through eighth grade, affecting nearly 600,000 students, with five AI pilots in high schools.
Pakistan-founded Edversity announced a strategic investment from Rapidev Group at LEAP 2026 in Riyadh to expand its AI-powered learning platform across Saudi Arabia, the wider GCC, and international markets. The company has trained over 12,500 learners in emerging technologies and plans to strengthen AI-driven personalized learning and skills verification.
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The University of Glasgow's School of Education has released a free 92-page toolkit to help teachers make deliberate decisions about digital and AI technology in learning. Developed by Mark Peart and colleagues, it guides teachers through examining assumptions, lesson design, and ethical checks, without recommending specific tools.
The Busan Metropolitan Office of Education announced it will operate an AI Education Center at AI KOREA 2026, held at BEXCO from September 9 for three days. The center will feature 52 booths, with 51 schools showcasing AI education cases from real classrooms and offering hands-on experiences. Eight live lesson demonstrations will cover topics including Korean language education using 'AI for All Korean'.
People's Daily reported that 71.0% of students use AI to assist with homework, raising concerns about thinking skills. Experts noted that AI study camps emphasize marketing over practice, and industry standards are lacking. The Ministry of Education has issued guidelines prohibiting primary school students from using open content generation alone, but enforcement is difficult. Experts suggest establishing a tiered governance system.
On September 3, 2026, Xinhua News announced the 17th Xinhua Education Forum, themed 'AI+Education for New Momentum'. The forum will include sessions, seminars, achievement collection, and exhibitions, inviting officials, academicians, and university presidents. The 2026 Education Innovation and High-Quality Development Achievement Collection has also been launched.
In the summer of 2026, the Southeast China High School Mathematics Exchange Activity was held in Fuqing, Fujian, featuring the first-ever simultaneous answering and unified grading between a math AI and contestants. The AI won a gold medal in the Grade 10 group and a silver medal in the Grade 11 group. The event covered 25 provinces and brought together over 2,600 experts and students.
UPES expanded its collaboration with Google Cloud by rolling out 10,100 Gemini Enterprise for Education licenses for students and faculty in Dehradun. The university celebrated Google Gemini Day with representatives from Google India and deployment partner ParadigmIT. The initiative aims to integrate AI into teaching, learning, and research, marking what the university calls the largest Gemini campus in northern India.
On September 2, 2026, the 13th Division Xinxing City announced that 15 schools in its jurisdiction have achieved full coverage of smart teaching facilities. Nomaohu Farm School was approved in 2025 as a Ministry of Education second-batch primary and secondary AI education base, and its drone club has grown to 28 members, with students earning more than 30 individual and team honors. Hongxing School has conducted 376 collective lesson-preparation sessions, and its school-based resource library holds 2,295 quality resource packages across 14 subjects, freely open to all 15 schools.
The 13th session of the 2026 Nanjing Employment and Entrepreneurship Forum was held at Xingzhi Science and Technology Park under the theme "AI Reshaping Efficiency: Innovative Practices in Efficient Office Work." The event used a combined offline presentation and online livestream format and drew more than 100 participants, including university students, entrepreneurs, enterprise staff and flexible workers. Dr. Guan Yunfang covered large model fundamentals and application scenarios across four dimensions, and demonstrated prompt writing, intelligent text generation and AI collaborative office techniques. The event was guided by the Nanjing Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and co-hosted by the municipal vocational training center and the Qixia District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau.
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On August 24, the launch ceremony of the industry internship and practical training program of the School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science at North China University of Technology was held at Jingxi Zhigu. The program is guided by the Beijing Association for Science and Technology Innovation Service Center and hosted by the school, Beijing Ascend Innovation Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd., and Beijing Zhigu Chuangxiang Enterprise Incubator Co., Ltd. It focuses on cultivating practical AI talent through a three-stage curriculum, assignment submission rules, and project defense.
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The Fujian Provincial Department of Education published the 2026 list of AI-empowered higher vocational education teaching reform research projects, totaling 29 projects: 1 major, 10 key, and 18 general. The list was determined through unit recommendation, expert review, and public notice procedures under document No. Min Jiao Zhi Cheng [2026] 18, dated August 24, 2026. The notice requires colleges to strengthen whole-process project management, focus on deep integration of AI with vocational education teaching, and link research with textbooks, courses, and practical training resources.
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A new study introduces StudentSim, a student simulator trained on real-world data to enhance AI tutoring systems. The model was tested across 60 students in chess, second-language writing, and basic math, outperforming GPT-5.4 and Maia2 in behavioral accuracy and responsiveness. Researchers integrated StudentSim into a reinforcement learning framework for AI tutors and reported improved guidance in blind tests. The paper and code are publicly available on arXiv and GitHub.
Violoop recently completed angel and Pre-A rounds totaling over 100 million yuan, with investors including Lenovo Capital, CICC Porsche, and others. Its first desktop Agent device is priced at $699 and has received about 12,000 reservations, with launch planned for September. The device connects to existing computers via HDMI and USB, aiming to let AI learn personal experience in real work.
AI Academy and Tomorrow University announced a partnership to establish a future-ready AI education hub in Sri Lanka. The center aims to offer AI courses and training to cultivate local talent. The collaboration will integrate resources to advance AI education in the country.
Bihar's Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari met with Google for Education India head Sanjay Jain to discuss expanding the Google AI Educator Training Series across schools and higher education institutions, providing free AI capacity-building for teachers. The talks also covered setting up AI labs in selected schools, using platforms like Gemini and NotebookLM, and deploying Chromebooks. Implementation timelines and coverage are yet to be detailed.
Researchers at Texas A&M University will develop 30 AI-assisted professional learning modules to train 900 aspiring math teachers across eight universities. The project is backed by a $2 million NSF grant and will run for five years, testing whether AI's real-time feedback can supplement traditional teacher training. The study will assess participants' content knowledge and mathematical creativity before and after the program.
In late August, Tencent Yuanbao updated and launched the AI Lecture feature, focusing on dynamic blackboard writing and two-way voice interaction for problem explanation, covering photo search, homework correction, interactive explanation, and mistake consolidation. The feature is currently free and supports photo Q&A for all subjects and grades. Yuanbao now integrates AI learning functions including Q&A, lecture, correction, practice, and college application guidance.
A study in Israel found that teachers use AI mainly for lesson preparation, with low classroom use. The Education Ministry is perceived as disconnected from teacher needs, scoring only 2.4. About 76% of teachers report limited or no knowledge of AI integration. The education minister claimed Israel leads, but evidence suggests his citation may be exaggerated.
Starting in fall 2026, the University of Winnipeg Collegiate requires all Grade 9 and 10 students to complete a two-hour AI literacy module in their social studies class. The module covers AI capabilities and limitations, effective use, privacy, and misinformation. Associate dean Cameron Cerasani says the school wants students to think critically about AI use, not use it blindly.
A study tracking about 27,000 students aged 12-18 in China for 30 months found that after adopting generative AI, homework scores rose by 18% while time per assignment fell from 64 to 45 minutes. However, in monthly closed-book exams without AI, scores dropped by 20% within six months, and high-stakes entrance exam performance also declined. The research was conducted by scholars from Stockholm University and the University of Hong Kong.
An indie developer launched an AI handwriting learning app where Claude responds in real time with handwritten-style text. It supports PDF annotation and dynamic comments, and can generate practice questions. A tester reported a nearly 40% boost in literature review efficiency. Currently optimized for Android tablets; iOS and Windows versions are in development.
SmarterX announced on September 1, 2026 the launch of Marketing AI Month, offering free access to the AI for Marketing Course Series throughout September. The five-course, self-paced series provides 3.5 hours of learning to help marketers move from understanding to application. Completers can earn the AI for Marketing Professional Certificate, with a live AMA on October 1.
Kentucky's Interim Joint Committee on Education heard reports on September 1, including a request from seven superintendents for $102.9 million to complete school construction projects, and a presentation on AI in classrooms by David Couch, K-12 EdTech leader. The state's updated standards now include AI guidelines, social media rules, and smartphone limits.
New York City's public school system will release an AI policy for the upcoming school year, banning generative AI for students in 2-K through 8th grade, affecting nearly 600,000 students. The policy also restricts screen time for younger grades and limits high school AI use to literacy, career certification, and five pilot programs.
The Computing Research Association's Education Committee has issued a white paper calling on universities to rethink how computer science students are taught and assessed in the age of generative AI. It proposes four principles, including treating learning as a process, and suggests alternatives like oral exams and code walkthroughs. The paper cites a University of Illinois facility that proctors over 90,000 exams annually.
A Royal Society-commissioned Teacher Tapp survey found that only 14% of teachers in England are confident across all three areas of AI literacy, and just 18% have received AI-related training. The survey, covering over 9,200 teachers, revealed patchy curriculum coverage, with 37% saying AI literacy is not addressed at all. The Royal Society calls for AI literacy to be a cross-curricular responsibility.
Reading Lang released its 2026 H1 results with revenue of about 74.5 million yuan, down 59% year-on-year, and net loss of about 31.3 million yuan, narrowing by 30.1%. The company upgraded its 'Reading Lang AI Study Room' to 'Reading Lang AI Learning Center', extending services to learning analytics, smart companionship, and precision improvement. As of end-June, there were 1,213 stores of the AI Learning Center and its predecessor, and the AI Learning Network and homework marking machine were deployed or trialed in about 833 schools.
On August 29, the AI education platform 'AI Bookjeokbookjeok' opened in Yeonje-gu, Busan, with 14 organizations including Silla University's Women's Issues Research Institute signing agreements to collaborate on platform operation and revitalize the local edutech industry. The event aimed to create a lifelong learning ecosystem from infants to seniors and discussed future education directions in the AI era.
The Fujian Provincial People's Government issued the "Fujian Province 15th Five-Year Education Development Plan" on August 24, 2026, aiming to basically complete a high-quality education system by 2030. The plan calls for unconventional expansion of emerging interdisciplinary majors including artificial intelligence, and for building AI colleges. It also proposes establishing 4 to 6 vocational undergraduate schools based on high-quality vocational colleges, and building about 40 Class A and 20 Class B high-level vocational program clusters by 2030.
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UPES in Dehradun, India, held Google Gemini Day on September 1, 2026, and announced the rollout of 10,100 Gemini Enterprise for Education licenses for students and faculty. Google India, deployment partner ParadigmIT and the UPES community took part, and Vaibhav Kumar Srivastava, India Head of EdTechs & Education at Google Cloud (India and SAARC), led a Gemini session and Q&A for students. Google Cloud described it as the largest Gemini campus deployment in northern India.
On August 30, 2026, at the virtual simulation research and creation center of Wuhan Vocational College of Information and Communication, trainee Yu Kexin received a completion certificate after an 8-hour AI comic drama script and storyboard experience course. In June this year, Hubei's first AI comic drama creation and AIGC digital content production training camp opened at the same college; trainee Shao Ruiyang completed 15 days and 120 class hours of training and on graduation day received interview invitations from several companies, with the Wuhan branch of Beijing Dianzhong Kuaikan Technology Co., Ltd. issuing a pre-employment notice.
Wuhan Municipal People's Government PortalStudents / Schools
In the new semester of 2026, several primary and secondary schools in Beijing upgraded their AI literacy courses. Zhongguancun No.3 Primary School launched version 2.0 with three tiers: general experience, understanding and inquiry, and applied innovation. Beijing No.2 Middle School Economic Development Zone School opened an Unitree embodied AI lab equipped with a robot, dexterous hands and real-time motion capture devices. Education agents including "Jing Xiaoxue," "Zhi Xiaoyan" and "Rose Xiaoyu" in Miyun District will pilot in schools. Guangqumen Middle School is co-building AI courses with Huawei's AI research platform, and Miyun No.2 Middle School built 13 dedicated maker classrooms.
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A project jointly created by the Baolong Street New Social Stratum Association and the "AI Learning Workshop" has officially launched under the guidance of the Longgang District Federation of Trade Unions. From August to November, it plans to hold 9 lectures and 2 intensive co-creation workshops, serving more than 500 participants and covering more than 15 companies, with a focus on roles such as art operations and quality inspection teams.
On September 1, 2026, Selangor State Executive Councillor for Investment, Trade and Mobility Ng Sze Han said in an interview with Media Selangor that AI will not fully replace jobs, and that those unwilling to learn or use AI tools will face reduced job opportunities. He said the Selangor government is cultivating AI talent through the Selangor Technical Development Centre (STDC), including a technology-oriented AI training course run with the University of California, Berkeley, and that STDC will also launch a series of AI courses. He said mastering AI means more than using tools such as ChatGPT.
The New Social Stratum Association of Baolong Subdistrict in Longgang District, Shenzhen, together with an AI learning workshop, recently launched the "Smart Manufacturing New Craftsmen" AI empowerment co-creation project for industrial workers, which has officially begun training. The project adopts a "united front + labor union + new social stratum" model, focuses on four core positions including graphic operations and quality inspection teams, and plans to hold 9 lectures and 2 in-depth workshops from August to November this year, serving at least 500 person-times and covering more than 15 local enterprises.
The Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University launched its AI and Law Collaboration last year and is continuing the program this year. The program includes visits to a variety of law firms to learn about real-world uses of AI in the legal profession. The original text does not disclose the number of participating students, the names of partner firms, or the program's duration.
Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper launched the first cohort of BPS AI Educator Ambassadors after a Summer Institute held August 24–28. Twenty-five secondary school educators received training in responsible AI practices and will lead AI learning projects in their schools. The cohort is a core component of the BPS AI Literacy Initiative, launched in March 2026 with a $1 million gift from Paul English, with Day of AI and TWG Education Labs leading the Summer Institute and providing year-long support.
The New South Wales government released new rules on 1 September 2026 limiting schools to a maximum of one take-home assessment task worth no more than 15 per cent of the school-based assessment mark, or 7.5 per cent of the total HSC mark. The advice from the NSW Education Standards Authority applies to the Class of 2027 beginning HSC studies in Term 4 this year and to students starting Year 11 in Term 1, 2027. HSC major works and some courses including creative arts, technologies and English Extension 2 are exempt, but schools must still authenticate students' work.
Jiangmen's human resources department launched the third-quarter 'Jiangmen Craftsman Lecture Hall' public training, offering eight free skill courses covering AI applications, creative design, coffee roasting, etc. September courses include AI-enabled frontline supervisor management and AI-driven office efficiency; October includes Solidworks drawing and Photoshop-AI integrated design. All courses are free, with registration opening in two batches at the Jiangmen High-Skill Talent Public Training Base.
On September 1, 2026, iFlytek released the Spark Intelligent Grading Machine M50, which can grade and analyze homework for an entire class within minutes, forming an hour-level personalized teaching loop. Its error cause system includes over 4,000 labels and passed expert appraisal. The device supports 50g low-weight paper with a jam rate of 0.4‰.
Heriot-Watt University announced a new online MSc in Computer Science with a Specialism in Artificial Intelligence, delivered in partnership with Coursera. The program is fully online and self-paced, comprising seven core courses, an Industry Specialisation Certificate, and a Capstone Project, totaling 180 credits. Students can start in January, May, or September, and most complete in about three years.
WhalesBot announced on September 1, 2026, the expansion of its global STEM and AI education ecosystem, covering 81 countries and regions and serving over 30,000 schools. Students from its Romanian partner won two second-place awards at the ENJOY AI Asian Open 2026 in Hanoi, Vietnam, on August 22. The company targets learners aged 3 to 22, integrating hardware, software, curriculum, and competitions.
The Punjab Education Department has yet to formally notify the AI curriculum for grades 1-5, delaying textbook printing. The syllabus is finalized but pending approval, and publishers urge the government to act quickly. The education minister had announced compulsory AI education, but printing awaits chief minister's approval.
In a settlement involving 48 states and the District of Columbia, Meta committed to improving age assessment tools within 12 months and subjecting them to independent audits. Meta's AI systems estimate age by analyzing photos, likes, and online habits, such as inferring school-age children from inactivity during class hours. Roblox requires video selfies for age estimation, claiming accuracy within one to two years for ages 5 to 25.
Starting fall 2026, the University of Tampa replaced its basic coding course with a required online course on generative AI, typically taken in sophomore year. The one-credit course, delivered via Codio, focuses on verifying AI outputs, responsible use, and communicating with professors about assignment expectations. The university cites workforce readiness as the primary driver.
Boston is set to become the first major US city to integrate AI into regular public high school curriculum. Starting in September, more than 20 high schools will teach AI operating principles, data and algorithm fundamentals, and ethical usage. The policy was announced by Mayor Michelle Wu in March to help students apply AI after graduation. Previously, AI education in the US was largely confined to private schools.
Turing, a reasoning AI agent developer, completed a 7 billion KRW Series B round with new investors including Korea Development Bank. Its college AI agent GPAI surpassed 1.5 million users in a year and is used by 415 universities in the US. Turing is making GPAI's paid features free for universities and expanding beyond STEM to global students.
UK-based edtech startup Medly AI has raised $8 million in seed funding to expand its AI exam prep platform. Since launching in February 2025, it has over 400,000 UK users, with students using it about an hour daily. The company claims improved GCSE results and is trialing with 1,000+ students to assess impact.
On August 28, 2026, the University of Lagos AI and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLAB) held the closing ceremony of the 2026 AI Summer Programme at the AI UniPod, where participants showcased AI applications developed during the programme. The programme attracted students from six schools including Queen's College and UNILAG International School. University officials stated that investing in AI education is part of their commitment to developing human capital for the future labor market.
A study by Bar-Ilan University and collaborators found that Google searches for physics concepts declined steadily from 2022-23 to 2024-25, with the largest drops in mechanics and non-English-speaking countries. Wikipedia traffic for physics showed a similar pattern. The findings suggest students may prefer AI tools like ChatGPT for direct explanations, not that they are learning less.
Anthropic published a new website for its Beneficial Deployments team on August 31, 2026, listing education as one of four focus areas, covering K-12 teachers, AI tutoring, and higher education. The team offers free or discounted Claude access and technical support to partners, and develops shared infrastructure. K-12 work starts with teachers, providing Claude for Teachers to support evidence-based practices.
A national survey by Britebound of 3,000 U.S. students in grades 7-12 found that 83% use AI tools, with 30% using them daily. However, only 36% say their school teaches enough about AI, and 42% believe they have the AI skills needed for future jobs. Private school students report daily use at 55%, compared to 21% in traditional public schools.
On August 27, a training class titled "AI for Agriculture, Digital Commerce Empowerment" for agricultural specialty new-media e-commerce operations officially opened in Liancheng County. It is hosted by the Liancheng County Bureau of Commerce and the Liancheng County Federation of Trade Unions, and organized by the Liancheng County E-Commerce Association. The training runs four days, with more than 100 participants from rural entrepreneurs, agricultural specialty growers and e-commerce enthusiasts across the county.
Fujian Provincial Department of CommerceEducators / Students
On August 25, 2026, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Jing'an District, Shanghai, approved Shanghai Yihe Vocational Skills Training Center to offer the 'AI Trainer (Levels 3 and 4)' training program. The approval follows municipal regulations on adult training institutions and vocational skills training standards.
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Recently, iFlytek (Hong Kong) and Lingnan University signed a cooperation memorandum to collaborate on nurturing startups, joint investment matching, and commercializing research outcomes, leveraging the university's LUX platform. The LUX platform focuses on 'AI+X' and explores applications of agentic AI across industries, aiming to accelerate industry-academia-research-investment collaboration and help students and research teams turn innovations into market-ready solutions.
ABP Education announced an investment in Noida-based AI tutoring platform YoLearn.ai, aiming to serve 250 million K-12 students in India. The platform supports 22 languages, offers voice answers and live diagrams, and plans to convert textbooks into AI teachers with Headword Publishing and KIPS Learning.
On August 31, CYBER.ORG announced the launch of its Industry Advisory Board with inaugural members from CompTIA, HiTech, Lion Tide Solutions, Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy, and TrendAI. The board will provide industry insights to align K-12 cybersecurity and AI education with emerging technologies and workforce needs. CYBER.ORG currently serves over 10,000 schools across all 50 states, reaching more than 48,000 educators.
Ahead of the 2026-27 school year, most US school districts have adopted a cautious approach to AI, establishing guardrails and promoting AI education but lacking specific system-wide rules. Chicago Public Schools released a generative AI guidebook in 2024 emphasizing AI literacy, with an approved tools list excluding ChatGPT and Claude. Houston ISD partnered with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu and plans to convert 100 schools to 'Future 2' model by July 2031.
South Korea and Singapore launched a teacher exchange program in August 2026 to strengthen STEM education and enhance teachers' ability to use AI in classrooms. The first cohort includes 42 teachers: 20 from South Korea and 22 from Singapore. Korean teachers visit Singapore from Aug 20 to Sep 5, and Singaporean teachers will visit Korea from Oct 25 to 31. The program includes observing AI-integrated classes and developing interdisciplinary teaching models.
In the 2026 autumn semester, Beijing's primary and secondary schools upgraded their AI general education courses, introducing intelligent agents, learning companions, and robots. Zhongguancun No.3 Primary School launched AI course 2.0 with three levels; Beijing No.2 Middle School Economic Development Zone School built a Unitree embodied intelligence lab with robot 'Yuzhuochen'. Miyun District piloted educational agents like 'Jingxiaoxue'.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) announced that from Academic Year 2026/27, all first-year undergraduates will take a compulsory module to gain practical skills in using large language models and multimodal AI. The course, THE1008 Applied Generative AI: From Prompting to Evaluation, has been piloted with instructors guiding students to use AI to review grant applications.
Akeo Edu's elementary AI courseware RUMI shifts from theory-centric learning to hands-on practice, allowing students to directly handle AI tools. Reported by Dong-A Ilbo on August 31, 2026.
Sogang University in South Korea has launched a new initiative to connect its AI research with local student education. The program aims to expose students to cutting-edge AI research and promote the translation of research into teaching. Specific implementation details have not been fully disclosed, but it is clearly targeted at local students.
The chairman of Yuk Choy High School in Ipoh, Malaysia, said at the school's 64th anniversary dinner on August 30 that the board and parent-teacher association plan in coming years to apply to the government to add vocational education and training classes on campus. The school says the aim is to cultivate AI and high-tech talent. The application remains at the intention stage and has not been submitted or approved.
On August 30, 2026, NIIT announced the expansion of its NIIT Digital portfolio with five AI-focused professional programs in AI engineering, full-stack development, data analytics, machine learning, and digital marketing. The programs emphasize applying generative AI and large language models to specific job roles rather than learning AI as a separate discipline. NIIT's India Skills Gap Report 2026 indicates that nearly 40% of employers and academic leaders expect AI to significantly reshape workforce roles in the next three to five years.
QS I-GAUGE released two reports showing that only 13% of K-12 schools in India have achieved advanced AI integration, and 91% of school teachers believe clear boundaries for student AI use are necessary. The surveys covered 1,209 teachers from 71 K-12 institutions and 1,118 faculty from 146 higher education institutions. Among higher education faculty, 78% fear overuse will weaken independent thinking, while 76% expect AI to improve academic performance.
Mapúa Education Group in the Philippines announced a plan to produce 200,000 AI-fluent learners by 2029, covering undergraduate, graduate, short-course participants, and professionals. The initiative is part of iPeople Inc.'s expansion of AI education and will update courses in engineering, computing, business, health, and design, adding short courses, professional certificates, and AI teaching resources. Mapúa has partnered with OpenAI, Altair, and Arizona State University to support curriculum redesign and faculty development.
The Punjab government has decided to introduce Artificial Intelligence as a compulsory subject in public schools across the province. The initiative aims to give students an understanding of basic AI concepts and practical applications. As part of digital education reforms, authorities will upgrade computer laboratories and provide teacher training. The move is intended to prepare students for future employment and a technology-driven economy.
Penn State's AI Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning announced the first round of its instructional innovation grants, awarding 46 grants to faculty and faculty teams totaling $384,355 for the 2026-27 academic year to integrate generative AI into teaching and learning. Thirty-eight are microgrants of up to $1,000 and eight are large transformation grants; 25 microgrants went to University Park faculty and 13 to Commonwealth Campus faculty. Projects were selected through a competitive review process and span multiple disciplines and instructional settings.
Indian edtech company IOLIV launched Sciborg.ai, an AI-powered science tutoring platform, for students across India on August 28, 2026. The platform covers grades 6 to 12 and is initially aligned with CBSE, ICSE, and ISC curricula, with plans to expand to more state boards and regional languages. Sciborg.ai offers instant doubt-solving, adaptive practice, interactive 3D diagrams, and 24/7 availability to complement classroom learning and enhance exam readiness in math and science.
On August 28, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi invited AI engineer and party leader Anno Takahiro to the Prime Minister's Office to guide her in using AI applications. Takaichi used voice commands to calculate policy effects and joked she might no longer need two secretaries. The government is promoting the generative AI system 'Gennai' to 180,000 civil servants for drafting parliamentary answers. Accenture survey shows only 13% of Japanese firms achieve company-wide AI results, below global 23%.
The 2026 iFlytek AI Developer Contest concluded its track on intelligent teaching management and education services, with Hailun Piano's market manager Du Fei participating with the consumer-oriented AI digital piano project and winning the championship. The project integrates AI into music classroom teaching, after-school practice, and entertainment scenarios, offering a software-hardware integrated solution. Eight teams competed in the finals, evaluated on innovation, scenario fit, commercial value, and social value.
Wuhan East Lake High-tech Zone announced on August 28 the launch of the "FDE+Agent" training program to cultivate FDE talents who understand AI, scenarios, and implementation. The program is coordinated by the Science and Technology Innovation Bureau, led by the Open Source Fusion AI Research Institute, with participation from Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and others. It offers three levels of training, with the junior level open to the public. The goal is to train 1,000 FDE talents and support 1,000 agent scenarios in three years.
According to Duozhi.com on August 28, 2026, multiple education technology companies are investing in AI and embodied intelligence firms. TAL Education invested in Zhipu, StepFun, Baichuan, Shengshu, BrainCo, etc.; Xueda Education invested 50 million yuan in StepFun, holding 0.1074%; NetEase Youdao invested in Qianhe Yibang, holding 11.8323%; Kede Education invested in Astribot's Series B, holding 0.9666%. These investments cover large models, brain-computer interfaces, and robotics.
On August 28, leaders of Japan's new party 'Future Team' including leader Abe Takahiro visited the Prime Minister's Office to instruct PM Takaichi on AI use as 'AI tutors'. Takaichi used voice commands to calculate policy impacts and joked about not needing secretaries. The government is expanding its generative AI system 'Gen'na' to 180,000 civil servants, developed by the Digital Agency, piloted since May, with features like drafting parliamentary answers.
Google and Khan Academy are rolling out new AI-powered educational tools built with Gemini models from Google's parent Alphabet. The updates target Khan Academy's AI tutor Khanmigo and add interactive diagrams that adapt in real time to student input for understanding math and science concepts. Khan Academy's Practice My Knowledge tool has also been reimagined, letting teachers use Gemini to plan, draft and validate practice questions while reviewing and editing assignments before they reach students. Six Google engineers worked on the collaboration for six months through a Google.org fellowship.
On Aug. 27, KT Corp held AI literacy and ethics education for students at Busan Arts Middle School in partnership with the Busan Metropolitan Office of Education and the Korea Press Foundation. Sessions led by KT's university student IT supporters group KIT covered AI ethics, generative AI experiences, board games and team missions, alongside mentoring. KT also operated its mobile AI experience center, KT AI Station, where students tried generative AI studio tools and AI human technology, and engaged with digital ethics content on deepfake detection and fake news identification. Students watched "Jump X Cut," a media literacy education play developed by the Korea Press Foundation, followed by a discussion.
UNESCO IITE published a 2026 global study on the role of artificial intelligence and information and communication technologies in supporting inclusive education for students with autism, ADHD and learning difficulties. The research examines how digital technologies enhance participation and learning within digitized education systems, using literature review, expert interviews and case studies. The report is authored by May Agius with contributors including Alperen Sağdıç, David Banes and Jingying Chen, and is available for download in English.
On August 7, 2026, Pearson hosted an AI professional development and certification program in Miami, with nearly 200 teachers from Miami-Dade County Public Schools participating. They are now working toward a verified AI credential as the new school year begins. The program is part of Pearson's commitment to expand AI learning opportunities for teachers nationwide through the White House's 'Pledge to America's Youth: Investing in AI Education.'
On August 28, 2026, the Human Resources Bureau of Longgang District and the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Haifeng County co-hosted an 'AI+OPC' innovation and entrepreneurship public training in Haifeng County, covering over 100 participants over two days. The curriculum included AI short video generation, TikTok cross-border e-commerce, and private domain customer acquisition, taught by Shenzhen instructors to help returning youth, new farmers, and self-employed individuals use AI tools for one-person company ventures.
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On July 2, 2026, the Leading Group of the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee on Education issued the Action Plan for High-Quality Development of AI Plus Education, proposing that by 2027, AI general courses in primary and secondary schools will be basically universal, teacher training will be fully covered, and more than 30 provincial AI education bases will be built. The plan also aims to add more than 5 master's and doctoral degree programs and more than 10 undergraduate programs, and complete digital training for 3,000 teachers. By 2030, AI education will achieve full coverage in primary and secondary schools, forming a cross-disciplinary and industry-education integrated training system.
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On August 27, the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee held a theoretical learning center group meeting, chaired by Secretary Zhou Hongbo, with academician Zhou Zhihua giving a report. The meeting proposed enhancing original innovation capabilities, promoting breakthroughs in computing chips, large models, and agents, and accelerating achievement transformation and enterprise incubation. It also emphasized expanding AI-enabled applications, opening real scenarios, strengthening software-hardware synergy, developing intelligent terminals, and enhancing data, computing, and talent supply.
Fiji National University's National Training and Productivity Centre contributed Pacific knowledge to UNESCO's first practical guide on integrating AI into Technical and Vocational Education and Training. The achievement was announced at the 2026 National Conference on Information Technology on August 28, 2026. Fiji's Minister outlined 2030 digital targets including 80% digitalization of key government services and 40,000 ICT jobs. The conference theme focused on building a secure and trusted digital Pacific.
This summer, MIT and Lakes Region Community College (LRCC) launched a pilot partnership, bringing 16 high school students from across New Hampshire to a four-week 'Gateway to AI' course. The curriculum, designed by MIT professors, covers linear algebra and statistics, followed by hands-on projects in agriculture, healthcare, and finance. The program aims to close the gap in access to advanced math and AI for rural students.
AWS announced the Student Reward program on August 28, investing over $500 million to enhance cloud and AI skills for university students worldwide. The program is open to students aged 18 and above enrolled in accredited 2-4 year higher education institutions, including South Korean students. Participants can receive a 12-month subscription to Skill Builder, up to $579 in benefits, including AWS credits and certification exam vouchers.
There is no global consensus on AI's role in elementary classrooms. Singapore introduced AI fundamentals for grades 1-3 under its 'Transforming Education through Technology' master plan. China plans to bring AI education to all primary and secondary schools by 2030, with Hangzhou students receiving at least 10 hours of AI instruction annually. India's Rajasthan state introduced an AI system in 2024, reducing the share of students performing two or more grades below expected level by 18%. Norway announced a near-total ban on generative AI tools for ages 6-13, effective late this month.
On August 28, 2026, Yongzhou Data Bureau issued a notice to publicly select the implementer for the 'AI + Education' scenario construction project, with a construction and operation period of 5 years. Applicants must have paid-in registered capital of no less than 5 million yuan, annual revenue of no less than 10 million yuan in the previous year, and a technical team of at least 5 people. Application materials must be submitted before 17:00 on September 7, 2026, and consortiums with no more than 3 members are accepted. The project covers teaching, research, management, evaluation, and service, and involves education data governance and product development.
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Jingjiang City systematically implemented the AI+Education special action, completed the 10-gigabit upgrade of the education metropolitan area network, built 6 AI classrooms and 18 AI laboratories, and deployed learning data collection terminals. Three large schools in the urban area piloted AI teaching assistants, with 30 application scenarios across six dimensions. Implemented the 'Thousand-Hundred-Ten' teacher AI literacy training plan, offered AI general courses in primary and secondary schools, with over 5,000 student participants in competitions. Vocational colleges added AI-related majors, cultivating more than 800 AI skilled talents annually.
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The Fujian Provincial Government issued the '15th Five-Year Education Development Plan' on August 24, 2026, aiming to basically build a high-quality education system by 2030. The plan explicitly calls for extraordinary layout of emerging interdisciplinary disciplines such as artificial intelligence, promotes the establishment of 4-6 vocational undergraduate colleges, and implements a spring and autumn break system for primary and secondary schools. The plan covers higher education, vocational education, basic education, and teacher development.
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The American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education released a new framework calling on university-based teacher education programs to build a comprehensive approach to preparing teachers to understand AI's effects on K-12 education. The framework covers ethics and policy, practice and implementation, cognitive issues, and professional expertise, and suggests aspiring teachers who oppose the technology on ethical grounds should be allowed to avoid using it and still receive teaching credentials. AACTE represents more than 500 public and private college and university programs, which by federal estimates prepare more than 90% of new educators.
Students in Kenya are using generative AI to explain difficult concepts, prepare presentations and organise assignments, while teachers experiment with the technology to develop lesson plans, generate quizzes and adapt explanations. A 2025 study involving 137 educators from thirteen Kenyan universities found that lecturers saw significant potential in generative AI but also raised concerns about academic dishonesty, data privacy, accuracy and over-reliance. Kenya's Ministry of Education said in July that 10,382 laptops and an equal number of interactive smart boards were being distributed to Junior Schools across the 47 counties under the Kenya Digital Economy Acceleration Project, after more than 62,000 teachers received ICT integration training.
Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science is weaving AI into coursework across campus, aiming to give students the agency to define and shape the AI of tomorrow. The school convened a faculty summit last summer to share generative AI teaching practices and adjusted programming assignments to include more tests and code reviews, with teaching assistants interviewing students about their projects. Mike Taylor, an assistant teaching professor in the Computer Science Department, incorporated algorithmic thinking into his "Effective Coding With AI" course and submitted his findings to the spring Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
VIT-AP University signed a two-year agreement with technology company Octave to make AI, machine learning, and software engineering studies more hands-on. The partnership combines classroom knowledge with industry experience through research projects, mentorships, internships, and job opportunities. Student teams guided by faculty and Octave mentors will work on real industry problems in quarter-long cycles, with cross-campus talks and Octave helping keep the AI/ML curriculum aligned with current industry needs.
iFlytek's 2026 interim report shows H1 revenue of 11.623 billion yuan, up 6.52% year-on-year, with net loss of 204 million yuan, narrowing by 14.68%. Open platform revenue reached 3.705 billion yuan, up 36.01%, accounting for 31.87%, surpassing smart education as the largest revenue source. Large model API and MaaS service revenue grew about 70% year-on-year, with over 11.5 million AI developers. Education business revenue fell 1.16%, but contract value grew 45%, and smart grading machines covered over 5,000 schools.
Traverse City Area Public Schools (TCAPS) is one of only 10 school districts nationwide selected for a first-of-its-kind AI education grant from the EDSAFE AI Alliance. The grant, from the AI Spark Fund, aims to help districts operationalize AI policies. It provides not only funding but also matching with technical assistance partners for direct support. The project will document lessons learned for districts nationwide.
South African rugby star Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu has become a brand ambassador for Maski, a free AI tutor for learners in Grades 4 to 12. Developed by Maskew Miller Learning, Maski is accessible via WhatsApp and aligned with the CAPS curriculum. Since its launch in 2024, over 208,000 learners and teachers have benefited. Users can start by adding 072 091 0388 and sending 'Hi'.
On August 21, People's Education Audio-Visual Digital Press and Xiaoyuan signed a cooperation agreement, announcing the official launch of the 'Primary and Secondary School Textbook Learning Agent' on the Xiaoyuan AI Learning Device. The agent, developed by the press, combines textbook content with Xiaoyuan's Yuanli large model, featuring dual modes of 'AI companion' and 'AI guidance'. Since a pilot in March 2026, over 100,000 students have used it, with pilot data showing a 33.6% increase in Chinese knowledge mastery and 24% in English.
At the America's Youth AI Festival in Boston, four student artists won the 2026 Me, Myself, and AI art competition, with works exploring AI's influence today and in 50 years. The competition grew from a curriculum by MIT RAISE, expanded into Day of AI's five-lesson AI and the Creative Arts Curriculum released in January 2025 for ages 8 and up. Judges used a multi-reviewer process similar to college admissions, emphasizing creativity, originality, and personal voice.
The Chongqing Municipal People's Government issued the '15th Five-Year Plan for Integrated Education, Science, Technology, and Talent Development (2026-2030)' on August 3, 2026, and published it on August 27. The plan aims to basically build an innovative strong city by 2030, with R&D intensity reaching 3.25% and STEM graduates accounting for 60% of bachelor's degrees. It explicitly creates application scenarios for 'AI + education' and builds a national AI application pilot base for human resources.
Indian higher education institutions are integrating AI into teaching. IIT Delhi, Madras, and Kanpur are adding AI courses, and BITS Pilani offers AI courses to first-year students. IIT Delhi's continuing education program offers a certificate course in generative AI for Rs 195,000. IISER Pune runs three-day research workshops costing Rs 11,000 to Rs 23,000. Training firm Aylence conducts AI workshops for lawyers, doctors, and other professionals.
This summer, Songjiang local enterprise Zhiqi Technology's self-developed 'AI+STEM' education system was first applied on a large scale, offering 214 special courses in summer care classes across subdistricts, reaching thousands of teenagers. Courses turn local resources into teaching materials, such as Zhongshan focusing on instrument industry and Sheshan on astronomy. Students use tablets to generate 3D models via AI, and teachers use AI to create lesson plans and adjust difficulty.
Google Korea cited a Public First report showing Korea's AI usage is 1.7 times the global average. 40% of surveyed workers said companies prioritize AI-skilled applicants, and 35% identified AI tool proficiency as the most essential skill. The report found AI training saves 2.3-4.7 million won per worker annually. Google promotes its AI Ollim program and a certificate with the labor ministry.
OpenAI's latest report reveals ChatGPT supports over 70 million weekly learning conversations globally. During the U.S. school year, classwork-related messages peak at over 460 million per week, spiking on Sunday evenings. Summer activity remains high, surpassing 180 million messages weekly. The report also notes the University of Colorado offering free access for fall 2026 and Iowa's Waukee district piloting ChatGPT for Teachers.
On August 26, 2026, the Aga Khan University's Institute for Educational Development, East Africa (IED, EA) held a Regional Learning Exchange in Dar es Salaam with policymakers, researchers and school leaders. The meeting proposed that East African teacher training institutions make AI literacy, adaptive assessment and digital ethics core required modules rather than electives. It also called on ministries of education to audit existing teacher training college curricula and for licensing boards to require demonstrated digital competency before certification.
The International Finance Forum's Global AI Competitiveness Index Report says the global AI talent pool is about 3 million people and the gap is expected to exceed 2.8 million by 2030. It says about 80% of AI practitioners have less than three years of industry experience, and 41.8% have no more than one year. A 2026 survey report on China's AI training service providers projects the Chinese enterprise AI training market to exceed 32 billion yuan in 2026, up 67% year on year, with average corporate AI training budgets rising 58%.
Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media's 2026 interim report shows year-over-year declines in revenue and net profit, but a surge in operating cash flow. The company is accelerating digital and AI education initiatives while facing risks from digital transition and demographic shifts. The report was released on August 26, 2026.
The Chifeng Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau and the Employment Service Center will hold a community micro-entrepreneurship training program from August 28 to September 9, offering free courses that combine AI tools with intangible heritage crafts, targeting hobbyists, beginners, and stay-at-home mothers, covering short video sales, live streaming, and AI-assisted promotional material creation.
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The University of Colorado Anschutz School of Dental Medicine is integrating AI into teaching, clinical care, research, and administration. Faculty use AI to build course materials, students interview AI-powered simulated patients, and clinical tools support radiographic review and treatment planning. An AI Steering Committee identified four focus areas: training future-ready practitioners, building AI literacy, strengthening faculty development, and advancing research. The dean stated the goal is to build judgment and adaptability, not just teach tool use.
Kiley Prep Middle School in Springfield, MA, is launching a classroom pilot using AI tools this school year, designed by the Springfield Empowerment Zone Partnership. Students will spend about two hours daily on AI-based learning, with afternoons for hands-on projects. The pilot adapts a Texas program based on the Alpha School model and keeps a veteran teacher in the classroom. The teachers' union, representing about 2,500 employees, worries about potential job replacement.
Winnipeg software engineer Mohamad Alhamoud developed the AI literacy platform Codora after witnessing his son use an AI chatbot for homework. The platform offers over 170 interactive lessons covering AI ethics, privacy, and prompt writing, aimed at K-12 teachers with no training required. A five-part essentials course is now mandatory for Grade 9 and 10 students at the University of Winnipeg Collegiate this fall. Alhamoud is in talks with other schools for pilots, but nothing is finalized.
Scrum Alliance launched its third Coursera specialization, 'The AI-Powered Scrum Master,' on August 26, 2026, targeting current and aspiring leaders. The program includes seven self-paced courses covering Scrum fundamentals, team building, AI ethics, and AI tool application. Learners earn a Coursera certificate upon completion.
From August 18 to 20, Fuzhou held an AI training class at the Municipal Party School, with about 120 officials from Fuzhou New Area, county governments, and municipal units. The training used expert lectures, case teaching, and hands-on practice, inviting professors from Xiamen University and experts from Volcano Engine, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Hygon, and Huawei. Courses covered AI frontiers, large model trends, and AI chip development, with practical sessions on AI short video production and WorkBuddy.
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On August 20, 2026, US-based AI search platform iAsk AI announced expansion into an education hub to help students learn with AI rather than just get answers. Since launch in 2023, it has processed over 750 million searches, with up to 1.5 million daily. New features include AI homework helper, step-by-step solutions, personalized explanations, and real-time AI tutoring. CEO Dominik Mazur cited 2024 NAEP data showing US 12th-grade math scores dropped 3 points from 2019 and 2005.
Ukraine has launched the WINWIN EdTech Center of Excellence in Kyiv, marking a shift from school digitalization to a comprehensive learning ecosystem integrating AI, teachers, and methods. Based on Estonia's experience, it operates under the WINWIN 2030 strategy. The opening was attended by Estonia's president and Ukrainian ministers. The center collaborates with OpenAI on teen AI use and forms a teacher community to test math tools.
Coursera founder Andrew Ng, based on analysis of over 10,000 job postings and expert interviews, listed four essential AI development skills: building and deploying AI applications, software engineering fundamentals, using coding agents, and shaping the build. Several industry experts argue the list is too development-focused, ignoring business problems, risks, and compliance. Deepika Sidana, senior manager at American Express, emphasizes engineers also need to understand business processes, customer workflows, and consequences of failure. Meta engineer Naman Ahuja notes that the most valuable AI engineering skills increasingly lie outside traditional coding.
Pakistan's Higher Education Commission (HEC) will train faculty members from about 100 universities in AI skills through a four-day program starting August 27. Titled 'AI Literacy for Faculty Members: Building AI-Ready Institutions,' the program is organized by the National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE) under HEC. It covers integrating AI into curriculum design, teaching, learning, assessment, research, and academic administration. The program is open to full-time regular or permanent faculty, with preference for newly inducted teachers.
In August 2026, Warren County Public Schools opened the IMPACT Center for Leadership and Innovation, introducing Kentucky's first dedicated AI career pathway and the only school in the U.S. offering IBM certificates in AI, cybersecurity, and data analytics. Currently, 50 students are enrolled, with courses for eighth graders and above covering data visualization and coding. The pilot, in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, may become a statewide model and expand into an optional minor.
Dordt University in Iowa announced on August 24, 2026 a one-year pilot with BoodleBox, a collaborative AI platform. Students, faculty and staff can opt in to use BoodleBox, which provides premium versions of Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and other models. The university says it will provide training and campus-wide conversations under the theme "Knowing and Being in an AI World."
Jiangsu Province launched a project in Nanjing to achieve full coverage of AI literacy education courses in its primary and secondary schools. Starting in the autumn semester this year, all schools in the province will offer AI literacy courses. Summer training for teaching capability recorded 9.03 million views, and course resources are now available for free in the provincial online classroom AI literacy resource zone.
Georgia Tech's College of Computing this week posted a back-to-school interview with David Joyner, the university's interim provost in charge of AI in education. Joyner said nearly 15,000 students are currently majoring or minoring in AI-related fields such as computer science. He said some professors are creating their own agents to act as tutors in their classes, and that AI gives students a new tool to complete tasks quickly, generate ideas faster and help write software.
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Israel's Education Ministry said on August 24 that Program 720, which aims to incorporate artificial intelligence into the education system, will be powered by Microsoft, Google, Amazon and other AI companies, which must comply with the highest security and privacy regulations. The program ran a pilot in 28 schools in the 2025 school year and will expand to 180 schools in the next phase, with 300 more interested in using it. The platform is available in Hebrew and Arabic and covers Arab, Bedouin, Haredi, Religious Zionist and general education schools.
On August 25, the Gaoping Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau launched a free AI comic production training class with over 70 young participants. The three-day course covers full-process AI comic creation, mainstream AI tools, and prompt writing to enhance employability.
On August 24, the Mudanjiang Education Bureau hosted a seminar on the practical application of the 'Rose Language' AI vertical model for Chinese language teaching, organized by Lixin Experimental Primary School, with over 500 participants. Five first-batch experimental schools shared AI application experiences, Tsinghua University Primary School signed a support agreement with Lixin, and second-batch alliance schools were awarded.
Citing five people familiar with the matter, The Information reported that on the day SpaceX completed its $60 billion acquisition of Cursor, Musk addressed Cursor employees for the first time, admitting Grok lags behind competitors and that he is not used to losing. He asked Cursor to help SpaceXAI catch up quickly and called Anthropic a strong leader in AI. Cursor employees have begun integrating into SpaceXAI teams, with CEO Michael Truell reporting directly to Musk.
Experts from multiple Indian universities point out that AI is becoming a cross-industry capability, not limited to tech. IIT Kharagpur director Suman Chakraborty says foundational subjects like math, algorithms, and Python are primary, with Python appearing in nearly three-fourths of AI roles. Naukri.com's 2025 study shows 34% growth in AI entry-level hiring. World Bank data indicates AI-focused roles carry a wage premium of about 28%, while digital skills average 12%.
Defending Education released a report on August 25 alleging that several US universities, despite public retreats from DEI, continue promoting identity-based ideologies through AI research projects. The report names MIT, UC Berkeley, Columbia University, Virginia State University, and Morgan State University. It claims these projects embed DEI into AI tools, potentially affecting future school adoption. Schools have not yet responded to requests for comment.
US tech giants Microsoft, Google, Apple, and OpenAI are deepening their involvement in American schools by providing training, workshops, and tools. The American Federation of Teachers launched an AI training program with Microsoft and OpenAI worth over 2.2 billion rupees, drawing criticism. Los Angeles Unified School District has stopped using iPads and Chromebooks for young children. Google holds a 59% market share via affordable Chromebooks, raising concerns about screen time.
In the summer of 2026, Shanghai University of Engineering Science and Songjiang No.2 High School signed a three-year cooperation agreement, launching two summer science practice courses on 'green low-carbon' and 'artificial intelligence'. More than 50 incoming high school students attended a two-day course, learning carbon footprint accounting and building a campus AI assistant. The course used the internal testing platform 'Xingyun LCA' to help students understand the underlying logic of AI. Over the next three years, the two parties will continue to co-develop courses in fields such as artificial intelligence and urban transportation.
The Education Bureau (EDB) of Hong Kong held a two-day AI Leadership Training on August 24-25 for principals, vice-principals, and middle managers of primary, secondary, and special schools, attracting about 1,400 participants. The training, conducted in both face-to-face and online modes, introduced the AI Literacy Learning Framework and the Guide to Using AI in Teaching, and shared school-based AI+Subject practices. Under Secretary for Education Dr Sze Chun-fai emphasized the role of school leaders in translating policy into school-based action plans.
A two-year study in Tennessee randomly assigned low-performing students from 18 middle schools to use Khan Academy with AI tutor Khanmigo. Students used Khanmigo on only about a third of learning days, often sending off-topic messages or trying to get answers. Khan Academy students showed faster math gains, but researchers say benefits were not from AI. Khan Academy has redesigned its interface to better integrate Khanmigo.
QS I-GAUGE released two reports on August 25, 2026, showing that only 13% of schools in India have achieved advanced system-wide AI integration, and 91% of teachers believe schools need clear boundaries for student AI use. The surveys covered 1,209 teachers from 71 K-12 schools and 1,118 faculty from 146 higher education institutions. In higher education, 78% of faculty fear overuse will weaken independent thinking, while 76% expect AI to improve academic performance.
KAIST President Bae Choong-sik announced on August 24 that all undergraduate and graduate courses will be completely redesigned for the AI era starting March 2026. Courses will be categorized by AI usage level: AI-free education in humanities and basic sciences, AI-assisted problem-solving in most classes, and student-led AI development. All 750 professors will become concurrent faculty of the AI college.
On August 24, 2026, Feixiang Teacher released version 3.0, adding an 'education app generation' capability that lets users create accessible, AI-powered apps with data persistence and iteration through dialogue, without coding. This is the third major upgrade in nine months, following 1.0 (Dec 2025) for teaching animations and 2.0 (May 2026) for interactive courseware. The team has built an AI Lab since 2014, accumulating question banks and learning data. The upgrade also enhances document parsing and multimodal abilities.
On August 23, 2026, AI Advantage issued a press release describing its AI education platform, co-founded by Dean Graziosi, Tony Robbins and Igor Pogany, with programs including the AI Advantage Bootcamp, the AI Advantage Club and AI Mastery. The platform argues that many people fail to get value from AI because their tools were never taught who they are, so the curriculum has participants give AI personal and professional context and build reusable systems. The platform reports that participant AI confidence scores rise from an average of 4.1 out of 10 to 8.1 out of 10 within 30 days of enrollment, that more than 70 percent report reclaiming 15 or more hours per week, and that participants span more than 150 countries.
Career Academy Network of Public Schools (CANOPS), a public charter school network based in South Bend, Indiana, is using AI in every grade level in the classroom, behind the scenes and in its curriculum to improve student outcomes, reduce teacher workload and improve communication with families. The network formed an AI task force last year with staff from each of its 5 school buildings to create ethical and responsible use guidance, policies and guardrails. Brett Harring, director of online learning and an AI coach, said the group looked at 40 to 50 platforms and selected Flint K12 to help create lesson plans, personalize student activities and identify students needing additional support.
Google is extending Gemini into student learning with exam preparation, personalized lessons, quizzes, and study notebooks. Eligible college students in the US can receive one year of Google AI Pro at no cost, while students outside the US can access Google AI Plus free of charge with higher usage limits and 400 GB of storage; eligible students in India get 12 months of Google AI Plus at no cost. Study notebooks support SAT preparation, with JEE, NEET, ENEM, ACT, and GRE being added.
India's National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) and the Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship (MSDE) have partnered with Cultus Education and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to launch a nationwide cloud and artificial intelligence skilling initiative. The programme aims to equip 150,000 learners with foundational cloud and AI skills and provide intensive, job-oriented training to 10,000 participants through the AWS re/Start programme. Delivered entirely online through Cultus Education, it will cover all states and Union Territories, with a focus on young people in Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities and underserved communities.
On August 23, the 2026 Hengqin Guangdong-Macao Deep Cooperation Zone AI Competition and Macau International Invitational opened at Macau Pui Ching Middle School, with nearly 600 contestants from 9 countries and regions, including nearly 200 from Macau. The event added embodied AI and AI Agent application innovation competitions and upgraded the drone track to a low-altitude intelligent network collaborative challenge.
On July 23, Xiamen's AI public service platform went live, aggregating over 2,100 AI resources including models, computing power, datasets, and agents. By end of 2025, Xiamen had 6 nationally registered models, ranking first in the province, and built 45 provincial-level typical application scenarios.
The first AI Cybersecurity Challenge final was held on August 23, 2026, at Cyberport in Hong Kong, co-organized by the Digital Policy Office of the Hong Kong SAR Government, the Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies, the Hong Kong Cybersecurity Professionals Association, and China Mobile Hong Kong. The competition attracted 290 teams from home and abroad, with 40 advancing to the final after an online preliminary in July. Teams designed and deployed AI agents in simulated attack-defense environments. The event aimed to explore practical applications of AI in cyber defense and promote cross-regional technical exchange.
SK Telecom announced on August 24 that it is launching the 'SKT-Seoul National University AI Joint Program' for graduate students in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a 15-week course starting September 1. The curriculum covers AI apps and services, AI modeling, and AI infrastructure. The first lecture will be given by CEO Jung Jae-heon to about 300 students, followed by current executives and PhD-level researchers including the head of AI CIC. The AI education partnership marks its 10th year in 2026.
According to Duozhi on August 24, Canadian children's entertainment company Spin Master will acquire Hapiko Inc., the maker of the kids' AI voice printer Stickerbox, in a deal valued at $35-50 million. Stickerbox, priced at $129, has sold out 13 times since its launch in late 2025. Spin Master reported 2025 revenue of $2.11 billion and owns brands like PAW Patrol. The acquisition is expected to close later this month.
The 5th Hong Kong Innovation Expo, held in August 2026, attracted over 60,000 visitors. 120 school teams showcased AI and tech inventions addressing daily life and community issues. Over 500 submissions were received, and gold winners will attend the Geneva International Exhibition of Inventions. Since 2021, the expo has engaged over 400 schools and nearly 9,000 students and teachers.
TPT's July 2026 survey of 7,345 US educators found 83% have used AI tools for school tasks, mainly for creating instructional resources (60.2%), brainstorming (42%), and reducing administrative workload (41.5%). Meanwhile, 94% are at least somewhat concerned about AI's overall impact on student progress, with top concerns being critical thinking (82.5%), cheating (56.5%), and writing skills (50.1%). 76.8% feel optimistic about the new school year, but 61% cite students' social-emotional needs as the biggest challenge.
Teachers in Wisconsin report AI's growing presence in classrooms, but not all schools have AI policies, leaving teachers to decide usage. Teachers use AI for grading and lesson planning while worrying about student misuse like AI-written papers. The state offers AI guidance but no mandates, leading to varied classroom practices. Teachers see AI as a major educational challenge and are rethinking teaching and assessment.
Houhuan Community has completed its first Youth AI Innovation Camp, where 30 local young people progressed through AI fundamentals, creative design, 3D modeling, and 3D printing. The program used the community Party and Public Service Center and brought together technology companies and instructors to add AI, 3D modeling, and 3D printing to community education services. At the closing event, the Zhuhai Embodied Intelligence Application Innovation Center presented an interactive Lingxi X2 robot demonstration.
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China Telecom's Huaihua branch organized its third recent company-wide hands-on TeleAgent training, covering on-duty employees from headquarters departments and 12 county branches. The format was learn in the morning, build in the afternoon, and produce work the same day. Topics included account operations, document drafting, Excel analysis, presentation creation, scenario practice, and security and compliance. Training combined lectures, demonstrations, paired exercises, and work reviews, with participants completing role-specific tasks. The company also selected digital-capability leaders, said it would track usage, and plans to promote TeleAgent to customers after internal use.
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The Associated Press reported that, because South Carolina has not issued statewide school AI guidance, Charleston County School District, which serves about 50,000 students, developed its own approach. The district contacted AI for Education a year ago, drafted an AI policy in phase one, and consulted teachers, students, and parents. Student focus groups found widespread AI use with little guidance. The new school year begins phase two, with online and in-person training for teachers and middle and high school students. Student lessons use examples such as a chatbot inventing research for a paper to teach verification and warn that conversations may be stored, used for training, or exposed, so personal information should not be submitted.
On August 21, with support from People's Education Audio-Visual Digital Press, Xiaoyuan Learning Device held a launch event for its Primary and Secondary School Textbook Learning Agent, and the two parties signed a cooperation agreement. Led by the press, the agent is based on textbook resources and Yuanli's large model and offers AI study companion and AI guided-learning modes. A pilot began on Xiaoyuan's first AI learning-device model in March 2026; company figures cited by the report say cumulative student use exceeded 100,000. The report also gave Chinese and English mastery and speaking-rate metrics but did not explain sample selection, control groups, or independent verification.
The Times of India reported on August 24 that Adam Ahmed, a 13-year-old grade 10 student in Sharjah, developed the AI education platform ScoolBot. The platform offers gamified quizzes, AI tutoring, classroom management, progress tracking, and parent participation and is described by the project as aligned with UAE Ministry of Education standards. The report lists a top-20 finish in the DDS challenge for an earlier project, fourth place for ScoolBot's first version, and two competition gold awards. In June 2026, Adam also released Bothread, an open-source multi-agent collaboration tool; the report said the achievements and performance were not independently verified.
On August 24, Hong Leong Assurance and Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman announced a practical AI learning program in Malaysia. Its first free public session is scheduled for September 26 and will focus on using AI for communication, productivity, workflow improvement, and workplace outcomes. The course will provide ready-to-use techniques, prompt examples, and workplace cases covering collaboration, project planning, content creation, and decision support. The partners said the university contributes academic expertise and the company contributes industry experience; the report did not disclose the scale, assessment method, or participant count for later courses.
A randomized trial involved 6,997 grade 6–8 students in 20 Hamilton County, Tennessee schools, with 6,327 taking a delayed test one week later. All students used NUMI practice, feedback, and explanations; half also received an AI tutor and were assigned to mastery or non-mastery workflows. After an error in the mastery condition, the AI group was 8.5 percentage points more likely to answer the next item correctly and used 0.96 fewer attempts but took 2.88 minutes longer. Delayed accuracy on practiced items was 40.2% for the mastery-plus-AI group and 37.0% for controls; with p=0.065, the paper calls the evidence suggestive and has not yet been peer reviewed.
From August 19 to 21, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism held its second 2026 rural-homestay workshop at the China Farmers Training Institute for more than 70 operators of city-rated rural homestays and other participants. Practitioners from Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Meituan, Fliggy, Tujia, and the Manyou Jingjiao mini program taught short video, livestreaming, advertising, reviews, property listings, and online-travel-agency operations. AI modules covered homestay management, reuse of idle rural assets, and creating short videos, promotional copy, and posters. The program also included visits to two homestay and rural spaces, a salon, and project pitches.
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On August 24, the Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute and Saint Francis University signed a memorandum of understanding through ASTRI CEO Sunny Lee and university president Stephen Cheung. The agreement sets out three pillars: joint research, technology transfer and commercialization, and talent development. The partners plan a biomaterials-design platform combining machine learning and materials science and research into drug delivery, biosensing, biodegradable implants, and real-time patient monitoring. The scope also includes support for special educational needs, education technology, student internships, visiting scholars, curriculum development, and specialist laboratories.
MIT and Lakes Region Community College launched a four-week Gateway to AI pilot for 16 New Hampshire high school students; LRCC is one of two host sites nationwide. An MIT faculty team designed the curriculum, with linear algebra and statistics in the first two weeks. Students then built projects on crop recognition, breast-cancer screening scheduling, and a financial-health chatbot. An Inter-Lakes High School teacher taught the course, MIT students served as on-site teaching assistants, and MIT will fund a student visit to its laboratories.
Newswav republished an August 24 Scoop interview with Kamales Lardi, CEO of Lardi & Partner Consulting. She argues that Malaysian schools should prioritize computational thinking, questioning AI-generated information, and judging when to use AI. She calls excessive reliance passenger mode and refers to research comparing employees' brain activity with and without AI, while the article gives no sample, method, or quantitative results. She also proposes adding cognitive governance to technology, data protection, and cybersecurity rules and involving parents, schools, government, companies, and young people in rulemaking.
On August 21, the Guangdong and Yangxi senior science and technology associations led a business-focused AI public-education workshop, co-organized with the Yangxi hat and bag industry association, Postal Savings Bank of China's Yangxi branch, and the county e-commerce association. Ge Bin, a member of the provincial science lecture group and a senior engineer at South China University of Technology's university for older adults, taught the course. It covered AI principles, hands-on cases, SOP prompt writing, copywriting, data processing, and image generation. Participants came from banking, hat and bag, e-commerce, and agricultural-processing companies; the source did not report attendance, duration, or assessment results.
Spectrum News reported on August 23 that the University of Kentucky will strengthen AI literacy and ethics in the new academic year and expand its cross-disciplinary CATS AI strategy. The university says the initiative provides students and faculty with resources and guidance for using AI in class and at work. Earlier this year it announced a Microsoft partnership and an artificial-intelligence bachelor's degree, which has more than 30 students registered for fall 2026. The university also encourages professors to include an AI policy in every syllabus and, where use is permitted, apply a tiered scale to explain which parts of an assignment may involve AI.
In a CNN interview, U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon supported introducing AI in classrooms while acknowledging that evidence about its effect on student learning remains insufficient. She cited Alpha School in Austin, Texas, where students use computers for the first two hours of the day, and said students still need one-to-one interaction with teachers. She argued that schools should continually review learning results and stop using tools that remain ineffective. Separately, the U.S. Department of Education issued education-technology guidance on August 20 based on five principles: educator-led, ethical, accessible, transparent, and protective of student data.
On August 24, The Hindu published a signed opinion article whose author explicitly stated that the views were personal and proposed free public AI tutoring infrastructure for students in India. The article says India has about 65 million students in grades 9–12 and that roughly 17–20 million use exam coaching. It proposes starting with JEE and NEET preparation, with government providing identity, payment, discovery, standards, data, and credential interfaces while private providers supply courses, practice, and question support. The Indian government has not announced adoption, a project, or a pilot.
On August 23, the Texas AI Learning Centre opened at Houston's Tagore Centre through a partnership with the IIT Kharagpur Outreach Network, with a focus on AI education, skills, and industry solutions. It launched with a two-day AI certificate boot camp coordinated by a Texas A&M University professor. IIT Kharagpur plans to provide later professional-development courses and explore expanding the centre into a Pan-IIT platform for alumni and industry participants.
South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance approved a $170 million Economic Development Cooperation Fund investment to build an AI and digital-technology education institute in Tanzania, the fund's first AI project. The institute will offer four majors in AI, robotics, data analytics, and Internet of Things devices and will include AI laboratories, drones, 3D printing, and ICT networks, with support for curriculum development and operations.
The Economist reported on August 18 a study covering 26,811 middle and high school students in a county in central China, tracked from September 2022 to June 2025. After using AI, average homework scores rose 18% and completion time fell from 64 to 45 minutes, while closed-book monthly exam scores were 20% lower than those of non-AI users, about 1.4 standard deviations. The study also says the outsourcing rate rose from 58% to 81% after five months of use, and the learning penalty narrowed from 25% in early 2023 to 16% in June 2025.
The Charleston County School District in South Carolina held an educator symposium on July 22, 2026 in North Charleston, where Amanda Bickerstaff, founder and CEO of AI for Education, demonstrated an AI-generated world map full of errors. The district, which serves 50,000 students, began drafting AI guidance a year earlier, gathering input from teachers, students and parents in phase one, and will provide online and in-person AI literacy training to teachers and middle and high schoolers in phase two. Deputy Superintendent Lucas Clamp called it "a huge endeavor," and South Carolina has not published official AI guidance.
iFlytek reported H1 2026 revenue of 11.6 billion yuan, up 6.65% year-on-year, but posted a net loss of 200 million yuan. The company raised nearly 4 billion yuan, with 800 million yuan allocated to the Spark Education Model project.
An action plan issued in April calls for China to introduce AI courses progressively from primary school through university, while Beijing began general AI education from primary through high school in fall 2025. National guidance issued in 2025 recommends games and hands-on practice in primary school, integrating AI into subjects such as physics in middle school, and research projects involving problem identification, solution design, and testing in high school.
At the 2026 Global Smart Education Conference, Yuanfudao Group won the Technology Innovation Award for its multimodal critical-reading agent, while 14 projects, including Yuanfudao AI Extensive Reading, were selected as outstanding smart-education cases. The conference, themed 'Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development in Education,' was jointly organized by Beijing Normal University and UNESCO's Institute for Information Technologies in Education.
Japan's education ministry has proposed a five-year university support program designed to strengthen student mobility and digital skills through initiatives including AI education and student exchanges. The program would fund up to 300 departments and require participating departments to offer courses in AI, mathematics, and data science.
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana, has secured a US$45,864 subgrant under the Africa AI Upscale Programme to strengthen artificial intelligence education, research and innovation. The programme covers selected higher education institutions in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, and is implemented by the FATE Foundation with the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), supported by Google.org. Participating universities gain access to the Google DeepMind AI Research Foundations Curriculum plus technical, academic and institutional support. Professor Eric Appau Asante, the KNUST project lead, will coordinate the university's participation.
In August 2026, Nanzhongzhou Group and partners held an AI-themed lecture for workers, featuring Wang Mengjue from Zhongguancun AI Academy. The course covered job changes, tool application, and full-process thinking. The event was reported by Beijing Fengtai government website.
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On August 16, the finals of Langfang's first AI trainer (data annotator) vocational skills competition were held in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (Sanhe) Digital Economy Industrial Park, co-hosted by the municipal data bureau, human resources bureau, education bureau, and trade union. 77 contestants advanced to the finals, competing in worker and student groups with theoretical and practical assessments. Winners will receive vocational skill level certificates.
On August 21, 2026, the Human Resources and Social Security Bureau of Sanjiao Town, Zhongshan, announced the selection result for training institutions for the 2026 'Cantonese Cuisine Chef' and 'Artificial Intelligence' free training classes, proposing Zhongshan Science and Technology Technical School as the provider. The public comment period runs from August 21 to 27.
Medly AI has raised $8 million to expand in the United Kingdom and internationally and to develop more educational tools and technology. The platform uses AI to provide personalized tutoring and support and has attracted more than 400,000 users in the UK.
On July 22, 2026, South Carolina's Charleston County School District held a workshop where AI for Education trained educators. The 50,000-student district has developed its own AI policy and begun a second phase of training. Thirty-seven U.S. states have issued official AI education guidance, but South Carolina is not among them.
PhysicsWallah said during its Q1 FY27 earnings call that AI Tutor has entered beta testing and is scheduled for release next quarter. Built on proprietary teaching data, the product recorded a hallucination rate below 1% in initial tests and has handled more than 1,000 queries from over 300 students. The company also said delays to the NEET exam caused online NEET revenue to fall 28%.
MyDIGITAL Corporation and Pepper Labs signed a memorandum of understanding on August 14, 2026, to expand AI learning through the Rakyat Digital platform and Dapur Digital community network. The partnership will bring Rakyat Digital's national learning platform into community spaces with in-person support, aiming to reach up to 50,000 Malaysians, including micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises, university students, and educators.
Vietnam's Ministry of Education and Training has released a framework adding AI education to primary and secondary school curricula, with 12 class periods per class each year. Covering general and career-oriented education, it is organized into four areas: human-centered thinking, AI ethics, AI technology and applications, and AI system design. Content becomes progressively more advanced from primary through high school, with an emphasis on practical and project-based learning.
The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education has directed every primary and secondary school in the province to begin offering general AI education from grade 1 through grade 12 when the autumn semester starts. Summer teacher training drew a cumulative 9.03 million views and essentially covered all full-time and part-time teachers and teaching researchers. A dedicated digital-resources section is now available free across the province through Jiangsu's Master Teachers Online Classroom, alongside measures such as on-site training for rural schools.
The Global Smart Education Conference was held at Beijing Normal University's Changping campus in August under the theme 'Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development in Education.' iFLYTEK showcased its Xingguang Super Agent, which opened to all users in June and saw registrations increase 80-fold in two months, surpassing 100,000 users. NetDragon Vice President Chen Changjie said the company's AI production center has cut the time needed to produce high-quality educational content to under one hour and reduced marginal costs to roughly RMB 100.
The Chongqing government reported on August 21 that Chongqing Artificial Intelligence College is conducting a second-round selection across 13 partner universities. It admitted 450 new students in March 2026 and plans to train more than 2,000 AI specialists cumulatively by 2030. A traffic early-warning system developed by the Chongqing Institute of General Artificial Intelligence has reached 95% identification accuracy and reduced abnormal-congestion alerts to under one minute. Its Mingjing full-lifecycle agent platform is expected to launch by year-end, and a RMB 2 billion industry fund is already in place.
On August 20, the Standing Committee of the Suzhou Municipal People's Congress opened a five-month AI application training program attended by its chair, Huang Aijun. A China Mobile expert delivered the opening course, 'General AI Knowledge and Application Practice,' after participants visited the Suzhou Mobile Technology Experience Center.
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The Xiong'an AI Training Base officially began operations on August 6. The 70,000-square-meter facility joins a research institute, industrial park, and public R&D platform in a four-part ecosystem. Focused on real industry needs, real-job practice, and market-based operations, it uses an 'operating company + training base + talent academy' model and works with leading companies to develop multidisciplinary talent with both algorithmic and product-operations expertise.
Google has announced that eligible university students in India will receive one year of Google AI Plus at no charge, although the service normally requires payment. The subscription includes Gemini-powered learning tools, study notebooks, quizzes, and visual-learning features. The offer is designed to reduce students' financial burden and consolidate learning materials to make exam preparation more efficient.
Common Sense Media released 'Teens in the AI Era: Schoolwork and Skills That Matter, 2026,' based on a nationally representative survey of 1,017 U.S. teenagers ages 13–17. Seventy percent use AI for schoolwork; among them, 77% use it to brainstorm, check work, or get feedback, while 63% use it to obtain answers. Yet only 27% said a teacher had discussed in class what AI is or how it works.
Arizona Western College (AWC) in Yuma, Arizona, announced the region's first plan to integrate artificial intelligence across all learning and operational models. The plan includes professional development for faculty and staff, certificate and degree programs in AI and machine learning, community workshops and noncredit learning, and AI tools and training through partnerships with industry leaders such as Google. AWC will also establish a physical AI Learning & Innovation Lab as a hub for innovation, workforce development, and lifelong learning.
Washington Leadership Academy (WLA), a public charter high school in the District of Columbia, held a Hackathon in early March 2026 with about 100 students tasked with building AI chatbots that address real-world needs. Days after ChatGPT's public release in November 2022, then-executive director Stacy Kane urged school leadership to take the technology seriously, and an AI task force of administrators, students, and teachers was formed. During the 2024–25 school year, teachers led professional development sessions, and AI now appears across every dimension of school life.
US K-12 districts face pressure to select and vet AI tools as the new school year begins. The US education technology market generated almost $48 billion in 2024 and is expected to exceed $90 billion by 2030, while the US AI in education market generated about $2.5 billion last year and is expected to exceed $15 billion by 2033. Tennessee's Sumner County Schools piloted the AI literacy tool Coursemojo, and Pennsylvania's Allentown School District uses a two-phase review requiring vendors not to sell student data or use it to train AI models.
Brown University formed the Generative AI in Teaching and Learning (GAITL) Committee in early 2025, co-chaired by computer science professor Michael Littman, who became Brown's first associate provost for AI in July 2025. The committee released a report in July 2026 detailing its findings and recommendations. Provost Francis J. Doyle III said the university prioritizes sustaining academic excellence while maximizing AI's benefits and mitigating its risks.
The National Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation Challenge, organized by the China Children and Youth Development Service Center, has held nine editions, growing from more than 10,000 entrants in the first edition to 170,000 registrations this year. Organizers said participation now covers 31 provincial-level regions on the mainland plus Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, with rising numbers and award rates from western and rural areas. Since the seventh edition, organizers have built a youth AI talent database and worked with universities including Beijing Normal University to publish youth AI literacy courses on new media platforms, drawing about 400,000 to 500,000 views annually. Next steps include working with research institutes and universities to set a youth AI literacy curriculum framework, develop courses and form quantitative literacy assessment indicators.
Google announced that a dedicated learning center for students is now live, integrated into the Gemini AI assistant and Google Search, offering study notebooks, customized flashcards and practice quizzes. Students can have Gemini research a topic in the background and receive a notification when the report is ready, and can use Google Live for multi-turn conversational research tutoring. Gemini can generate AI-driven 3D simulations, tables and charts from student prompts, and customized quizzes in Search now cover science, math and foreign languages. The launch came one day after OpenAI released a ChatGPT version for teens.
iFlytek's 2026 H1 report shows revenue of 11.623 billion yuan, up 6.52% YoY, with net loss of 204 million yuan. Smart education business revenue was 3.49 billion yuan, down 1.16% YoY. AI learning machine sales were affected by chip price hikes and shortages, but rebounded in July with over 30% YoY growth.
On August 17, the East Campus of Zhengzhou No.4 Junior High School started a three-day teacher training, with the first session focusing on AI digital teaching tools. Experts from iFlytek taught about AI-empowered classrooms, homework reduction, and smart teaching, demonstrating functions like Zhixue.com and digital homework platform. All teachers attended, with hands-on practice in the afternoon.
The Shanghai municipal government has issued its 15th Five-Year Plan for Education Development, aiming for breakthrough progress toward becoming an education powerhouse by 2030. The plan calls for AI-enabled transformation in education, supports schools in using intelligent teaching systems for lesson preparation, learning analysis, and homework management, and proposes lifelong-learning experience centers for AI. It also emphasizes stronger governance of AI use in education and the development of high-quality datasets and corpora.
Roanoke College and Grow with Google are offering students, faculty, and staff free industry credentials across 24 certificate programs, including project management and cybersecurity, each with an embedded AI component. Part of the Google AI for Education Accelerator, the courses are delivered through Coursera and result in certificates that participants can add to their résumés.
Xiaomawang has completed a comprehensive curriculum upgrade, launching three parallel product lines in embodied intelligence, AI programming, and informatics competitions that span a development path from AI awareness to engineering innovation. The courses introduce a no-code AI programming system and use the company's WaiWaiLab and WaiWaiBot hardware. Xiaomawang currently operates more than 60 directly managed campuses in over ten Chinese cities and has more than 400 teachers.
KwaZulu-Natal technology company BSG and Technologies has launched IRIS, South Africa's first humanoid AI tutor. It supports all 11 official languages and covers curricula from Grade R through Grade 12 and higher education. The National IRIS Lab School Campaign has deployed the robot to five schools. The company plans to build a manufacturing facility and expects to create more than 20,000 jobs within five years.
Philadelphia's Springside Chestnut Hill Academy has integrated generative AI into daily teaching and trains teachers to generate differentiated reading materials, create historical simulations, and provide immediate feedback. The school's strategic plan treats AI as a 'foundation for the future' and sets strict protocols to protect student data. By automating administrative tasks with AI, teachers save several hours each week for personalized instruction.
The Beijing Songzhuang New Audiovisual Industry Corridor launched an AI short-drama training camp. Twenty-two people completed the first cohort, and eight entered the OPC community to take overseas AI short-drama distribution orders from iSoftStone. The program uses a three-way 'platform + industry + education' model, covers the full AI comic-drama production chain, and plans to recruit 100 young students.
Lihua Education has officially changed its name to Lihua Culture and positioned itself as an AI cultural-literacy platform, creating an end-to-end development loop of learning, practice, assessment, creation, and performance. The platform surpassed 26 million users by June 2026. Following the rebrand, Lihua Culture will extend its services to offline performances and participate in drafting several international and industry standards.
Washington state's Peninsula School District has introduced personal AI agents for teachers. Using agentic AI, they can pursue goals independently and correct their own errors. CIO Kris Hagel said the aim is to give teachers more time to 'be human.' The district has also spent about $4.5 million on MacBook Neo devices for students and stresses that technology use must serve instructional goals.
Drexel University analyzed more than 230,000 Reddit posts from November 2022 through June 2025 and found that trust in generative AI slightly exceeded distrust, though the gap was small and fluctuated over time. About 31% of posts expressed trust, 26% distrust, and 41% a neutral view. Users judged AI primarily by usefulness, accuracy, and personal experience rather than abstract ethical concerns.
The finals of the ninth National Youth Artificial Intelligence Innovation Challenge were held in Wuzhen, Jiaxing, Zhejiang, on August 15–16. Nearly 8,000 young people from all 31 mainland provincial-level regions as well as Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan competed online or in person. Organized by the China National Children's Center, the Ministry of Education-approved national competition has run for nine consecutive editions and attracted a cumulative 610,000 participants.
On August 18, Beijing E-Town issued eight measures for AI-native talent covering student interns, young engineering talent, solo entrepreneurs, and top scientists. Industry leaders can receive up to RMB 5 million in support, while OPC entrepreneurs can receive individual awards of up to RMB 500,000. The policy also subsidizes AI interns and rewards employment, while supporting companies that work with universities and research institutions to train frontier deployment engineers.
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Jiangsu launched its universal general AI education project for primary and secondary schools in Nanjing on August 18. Beginning this autumn, every school in the province will offer general AI courses. The provincial education digital-information center and institute of education sciences jointly completed 16 class periods of training, which drew 9.03 million cumulative views and essentially reached all full-time and part-time teachers and teaching researchers. A new resource section brings together more than 130 national-level courses and nearly 800 class periods of structured curriculum for grades 1–12.
The Chongqing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau has issued its Human Resources and Social Security Development Plan for the 15th Five-Year Plan Period (2026–2030), making higher-quality, fuller employment its top task. The plan calls for at least 3.25 million new urban jobs over five years, no fewer than 750,000 attendances in subsidized vocational-skills training, broader 'AI + employment' services, and stronger entrepreneurship support in emerging fields including AI.
As of August 2026, Changzhou had held 2,383 AI night-school sessions with a cumulative 359,000 attendances. Changzhou Television reported the figures on August 20, and the municipal government website republished them. The night schools provide AI skills training to residents across a broad range of groups.
CodeAI and OpenAI have announced a one-year partnership to advance AI literacy among students. The collaboration will support CodeAI's Hour of AI program, provide expert support for its year-long high-school course AI Foundations, and supply mentors for its first Builders Challenge. The organizations will also form a joint advisory council focused on child development, youth public policy, and learning science.
A June 2026 joint study by Auburn University and James Madison University assessed generative-AI literacy among freshmen at the two institutions, finding scores of 54% at Auburn and 63% at James Madison, both considered low. AI literacy was limited across disciplines, and STEM students also needed instruction. The study appeared in Research & Practice in Assessment and was presented at the 2026 Association for Psychological Science annual convention.
Medly AI has announced a seed round of nearly £6 million led by Felix Capital, with participation from Eka Ventures and Ada Ventures. The platform describes itself as the world's first AI tutor for exam preparation and has gained more than 400,000 UK users since launching in February 2025. In July, Medly received funding from a UK Department for Education pilot program for AI tutoring tools intended to improve outcomes for disadvantaged students in England.
UNIVO Education launched its AI Readiness Initiative in August 2026, offering learners across India a free, self-paced foundational course covering AI basics, prompting, responsible use, and everyday productivity, with no coding or technical background required. The initiative supports Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision for broad AI adoption, offers applied certification in partnership with Amity University Online, and develops AI-readiness programs for companies and educational institutions.
On August 20, BRAOU and Telangana's Department of School Education launched a 15-day online 'AI for Teachers' program, with more than 1,500 teachers registered for the first cohort. The course covers practical uses including lesson planning, content creation, and assessment, with an emphasis on ethics and human-centered practice.
Google has announced new AI tools for learning in Search and Gemini, including AI-generated interactive visuals, 3D simulations, a dedicated student learning hub, and customized practice quizzes. Students can use Search to generate interactive content for complex concepts, such as pH visualization charts, and create quizzes for high-frequency SAT vocabulary. Gemini adds multi-step research reports and functional 3D-simulation generation, while Google Lens will gain interactive learning features in the coming weeks.
On August 18, the launch ceremony of Jiangsu Province's full-coverage AI literacy education course project for primary and secondary schools was held at the Provincial Education Informatization and Data Management Center, with 94,000 online and offline participants. The provincial education department has ordered full coverage of AI literacy courses in all primary and secondary schools starting this fall semester, and summer training sessions drew 9.03 million views. The provincial center launched a free digital resource zone for AI literacy courses and introduced three support measures for rural schools: on-site training, cloud classrooms and technical specialist assistance.
DBS Bank (Hong Kong) announced a partnership with tech-enablement company Preface to offer customers practical AI education courses and tools. The collaboration will launch exclusive hands-on AI experience workshops covering prompt improvement and custom AI assistants for everyday scenarios. From September 2026, DBS credit cardholders subscribing to designated AI tools can get one free exclusive workshop slot, and cardholders can enjoy up to 15% off when enrolling in Preface AI courses. The partnership extends DBS's ongoing work with Visa on the Agentic Ready programme and agentic commerce pilots.
London-based AI learning platform Medly AI has raised a €6.89 million ($8 million) Seed round led by Felix Capital, with Eka Ventures, Ada Ventures and several angel investors participating. The company says it offers an AI tutor for exam preparation and has grown its UK user base by almost 600% to over 400,000 since launching in February 2025. The capital will fund UK growth, international expansion, and expansion of its evidence base and proprietary models.
Muscat Daily reported on 18 August that Nouf bint Abdul Hamid Al Shamli, a Sultan Qaboos University student in Oman, co-founded the AI platform Ilmify, which personalises learning for university students by adapting educational material to individual needs. The platform has moved beyond Oman through several pilot projects, and the team represented Oman at the Falling Walls competition in Berlin last year. Nouf specialises in statistics and data science, with computer science as a sub-speciality.
Every traditional school district, community school and STEM school in Ohio was required to adopt an AI policy by July 1 under a provision in the 2025 state budget, and the requirement now enters classroom practice as students return. The Ohio Department of Education and Workforce provided a model policy, but districts could adopt, modify or write their own, and the state does not collect individual district policies, leaving enforcement largely local. Most model policies focus on expectations and guardrails rather than spelling out disciplinary consequences for student misuse.
From August 18 to 20, the 2026 Global Smart Education Conference, co-hosted by Beijing Normal University and UNESCO IITE with approval from the Ministry of Education, was held in Beijing. Qiming Daren, an AI education brand under Tianli International, showcased its product matrix including AI Classroom, AI Sprint Camp for Exams, AI Study Room, and AI Companion, along with AI Lesson Plan Assistant and TBCR Reading Assessment. Its products have been applied in over 150 schools, serving more than 300,000 teachers and students.
Google DeepMind, in collaboration with Google Cloud, will host the APAC Research Symposium from October 28-30, 2026, for AI researchers, faculty, and students in the Asia-Pacific region. October 28 is Faculty Day (invitation only), and October 29-30 are Student Days for selected undergraduate, master's, and PhD students. The event covers four research tracks including Agentic AI and Multimodal AI.
Guangming Daily published a commentary on August 19 proposing to advance AI in ideological education. It suggests developing ideological education large models, building a national AI computing platform, and promoting intelligent question setting and grading. It also emphasizes teacher AI training and security systems.
Jilin Province Public Resources Trading Center announced on August 19 that the bidding for Beihua University's AI course system and teaching resources project (software service) has been suspended. The project was originally scheduled to open on August 31, with procurement number JLSZC20260067201 and initial announcement on August 6. The new opening time will be announced later.
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On August 14, the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission and Zhongguancun Administrative Committee held an 'AI+New Materials' exchange event, with over 40 tech stars, experts, and industry talents. The event focused on AI-empowered materials R&D, featuring talks, discussions, and cooperation matching, covering data governance, intelligent agents, talent cultivation, and industrialization.
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From August 17–23, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's 'Hundred Days, Ten Million Jobs' initiative is running four online recruitment events, including one for AI, with more than 3,000 organizations offering 24,000 positions. Organized by SDIC Human Resources, the AI event brings together 400 organizations including China Unicom's Software Research Institute and the Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing, with more than 11,000 openings in agent development, large-model algorithms, AI data analysis, machine vision, and related fields.
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The 2026 Global Smart Education Conference opened at Beijing Normal University's Changping campus on August 18 under the theme 'Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Development in Education.' Co-organized by Beijing Normal University and UNESCO's Institute for Information Technologies in Education, the three-day conference released the Global Smart Schools Initiative and includes plenary sessions, parallel sessions, and high-level dialogues.
The Shanghai Women and Children's Working Committee has issued the city's 15th Five-Year Plan for Women and Children, which aims to keep their development at a leading domestic and advanced international level by 2030. The plan explicitly calls for exploring new 'AI + education' use cases and providing AI knowledge and skills training to improve women's digital literacy. It was issued on July 30, 2026, and published on August 19.
The 2026 Global Smart Education Conference opened in Beijing on August 18. iFLYTEK co-founder Nie Xiaolin delivered a keynote arguing that 'AI + education' should remain centered on educating people and enable teachers and technology to empower each other. He shared examples including dual-teacher classrooms in rural Kaihua, Zhejiang, and an AI teaching system in Saga County, Tibet, while calling for joint governance standards, an open ecosystem, and shared results.
A Liferay survey of 500 full-time U.S. employees involved in corporate AI decisions found that 39% of companies plan to invest in AI training over the next 12 months, compared with 21% planning dedicated investment in AI agents. Nearly 30% already run AI agents in production and another 26% are piloting them. Employees' two leading concerns about AI agents are data privacy and trust.
Saudi education-technology company AILA has announced a $3 million pre-Series A round led by Rua Growth Fund, with participation from Jo Academy, 500 Global, Bunat VC, and Fikr Ventures. The funding will support regional and international expansion and further development of AI-driven personalized-learning products including AILA Tests and AILA Labs.
On August 6, the Center for Industrial Services at the University of Tennessee Institute for Public Service signed a memorandum of understanding with UT Knoxville's College of Emerging and Collaborative Studies to expand AI education for manufacturers statewide. The partnership builds on a 16-week pilot with DENSO involving 35 engineers. Its first program, the AI in Manufacturing Workforce Certificate, begins October 1.
DFRobot attended TAMYZ FORUM 2026 in Astana, Kazakhstan, on August 17–18, 2026. Vice President Sandy Zhang delivered a keynote comparing AI education strategies in North America, Europe, and Asia and launched the HUSKYLENS 2 AI vision sensor, which lets students train models and perform real-time recognition. Organized by Astana's education department, the forum drew 3,000 in-person and 20,000 online participants.
In 2026, Shenzhen's Futian District represented China's basic education system at the World Digital Education Conference, where it shared its AI education experience, and became the site of a UNESCO Asia-Pacific learning-sciences community base. Futian has built AI learning centers in 78 schools, issued General AI Education Guidelines for Primary and Secondary School Students, and advanced an education-AI initiative comprising 20 project schools, 100 use cases, and 1,000 practice cases.
Heilongjiang's Department of Education is supporting Harbin Institute of Technology in leading a provincial AI education and teaching research center, with branch centers at Harbin Engineering University, Northeast Forestry University, and other institutions spanning engineering, agriculture, medicine, and the humanities. Drawing on their strongest disciplines, the centers will study how AI may transform industries and reshape jobs over the next five to ten years and drive changes to academic disciplines and programs.
Over the past year and a half, a team of Queen's University doctoral students has worked with more than 800 educators to develop the GenAI-dentity survey and workshop, helping educators reflect on their comfort with generative AI, assessment practice, fears, and challenges. Preliminary findings show that many feel unprepared and unsupported, and that comfort with AI varies by context, purpose, role, and risk rather than fitting a simple pro-or-con divide.
Malaysian education-technology platform Kelas Sekejap announced a full transformation on August 19, 2026, expanding from conversational English learning into a comprehensive AI learning ecosystem for school, work, educational content, and brand learning. Since its January 26, 2026 launch, it has accumulated more than 15,000 registered learners and over 6,000 AI-tutor conversation exercises, while short videos on its social channels average more than 150,000 views. Former CIMB Group chairman Nazir Razak led the seed round; pre-seed investors included Mark Koh, Carey Ng, Leong Yew Yan, and Lui Wai Lap.
The National University of Singapore announced on August 11 that students and faculty will gain access to ChatGPT Edu, OpenAI's enterprise-grade platform, from August 31. The university said it will pilot the platform in selected courses first and then progressively extend it to other courses where AI "adds educational value and augments learning objectives". The report also says Singapore's universities are embracing AI as employers increasingly value AI literacy and are willing to pay more for graduates with relevant skills.
Researchers from Simon Fraser University and partner institutions published an original study in Frontiers in Education based on survey data from 78 undergraduates in an online education course, examining their generative AI disclosure practices. The study found that fear of teacher judgment and fear of social stigmatization were strongly correlated, and both were associated with students actively concealing AI use; anxiety was not directly linked to reduced disclosure to teachers but was associated with more peer-only sharing and complete secrecy. The authors treat the results as hypotheses for future work given the limited sample size.
Meituan has officially launched its 2027 campus recruitment, targeting fresh graduates at home and abroad who will graduate between November 2026 and October 2027. It opens 10 job categories and more than 100 positions in technology, product, business analysis, operations, retail and sales, covering dozens of cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and Riyadh. Compared with previous years, Meituan has added more than ten AI-native roles such as AI full-stack engineer, AI product manager and intelligent business analyst, with over 80% of job descriptions explicitly requiring AI-related capabilities.
Recently, Guannan County Data Bureau organized a special training on AI government applications, inviting engineers from Jiangsu Lingwu Information Technology Co., Ltd. to teach, with all young cadres participating. The training covered high-frequency scenarios such as document writing and data analysis, and included a data security module emphasizing data desensitization and confidential information control.
South Dakota State University is providing AI Tutor Pro in undergraduate and graduate courses through its D2L learning-management system. Embedded in each course, the tool provides tutoring based on course materials. The university says AI is intended to support teaching, not replace instructors, and plans to integrate AI capabilities into every academic program.
Gaoping's Human Resources and Social Security Bureau issued a notice on August 18, 2026, announcing a free three-day skills course in AI comic-drama production for university graduates and other young people. Registration runs from August 17–23, and the first cohort is limited to the first 50 applicants and meets August 25–27 at Gaoping's flexible-employment market. Training covers AI tools, prompting, script structure, and the basics of finding paid work.
Tongling Party Secretary Yang Hongxing chaired a meeting of the municipal Party committee's standing committee on August 17, which reviewed and approved in principle the Tongling Action Plan for Accelerating 'AI+'. The meeting focused on science and technology, industry, consumption, governance, and other priority fields to integrate AI more deeply with the economy and society. The plan will affect the local layout of AI education-related industries.
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Education-technology companies are expanding into AI productivity. Yuanyin launched Promify.AI, an automated AI advertising platform that helps U.S. small and medium-sized businesses buy ads on Google and Meta. Zuoyebang launched AngSpace, a no-code application-development platform with integrated payments. PalFish incubated AI efficiency tools including AdsTurbo, which was released publicly in March this year.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma unveiled a roadmap for AI-driven school education on August 18, 2026. It calls for AI attendance and student-tracking systems, AI reading-fluency assessments, and AI chatbots for regular evaluation. The initiative aims to identify learning gaps early, flag students at risk of dropping out, and support teachers with lesson preparation and classroom instruction.
Nigeria's federal government is offering free digital-skills training through its Digital Training Academy, with plans to enroll 36,000 learners across all 37 states. More than ten training tracks include AI, machine learning, and cybersecurity. Coursera provides the courses; participants must register with a national identification number and complete an assessment, and those who finish receive certificates.
Overture co-founder and COO Steven Jiang says children encounter AI in search results, images, videos, homework tools, and games but lack proper guidance, creating an AI-literacy gap. Overture runs AI enrichment courses in more than 50 schools in Chicago and Boston and plans to expand to over 120 programs. Its early-childhood AI curriculum is entirely paper-based and screen-free, using activities such as 'Real or AI' to help students spot flaws in AI-generated images and develop critical thinking.
Washington Leadership Academy, a public charter high school in Washington, D.C., held a hackathon in March 2025 where about 100 students built AI chatbots. The school began exploring AI soon after ChatGPT launched in November 2022 and formed an AI working group of administrators, students, and teachers. By December 2025, 63% of U.S. high-school students used AI for homework, up from 49% several months earlier.
OpenAI announced a partnership with education-technology organization CodeAI on August 18, 2026, while launching ChatGPT for Teens for users ages 13–17. The product includes a study mode, responsible-homework reminders, and parental controls. CodeAI was founded as the nonprofit Code.org in 2013 and changed its name in June 2026. Its survey found that 84% of students already use AI, while only 16% of high-school education leaders say their schools help all students learn technical knowledge about AI.
Hong Kong's Vocational Training Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with ByteDance enterprise AI cloud-service provider BytePlus, making VTC member Hong Kong Design Institute a BytePlus higher-education partner. HKDI has integrated AI tools into teaching since 2023 and is now moving from technical experimentation toward structured design education. The partnership covers teaching, administration, and applied research.
Kazakhstan is launching a comprehensive AI education program in the 2026–27 academic year. Its first AI university, Qazaq AI Research University, plans to enroll 600 students and trainees: 400 undergraduates, 100 master's students, and 100 participants in an MBA AI+X program. Ten rural primary schools will also pilot AI teaching from September 1, with expansion planned to 500 schools.
Most of the 17 school districts in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County have adopted general AI policies over the past two years, requiring professional AI development for teachers and guidelines for student use. Teachers decide how much to integrate AI resources into daily instruction, so practice varies by classroom. Some use AI to draft lesson plans or let students converse with Greek gods, but many educators worry about loops without a human in the loop.
The Towards AI team found that retaining an entire conversation history without compacting or summarizing it was the cheapest, fastest, and most accurate strategy for its AI tutor. Its research indicates that summarization techniques harm memory recall, while sending the full context can reduce costs.
Some Vermont teachers already use AI in teaching. CVU High School teacher Brad Miller, for example, uses it to help prepare lessons but plans to reduce his reliance. The state education agency issued a 50-page AI-use guidance document in January without mandatory rules. Districts set their own policies: Harwood is developing one, while CVSD has issued a policy and offers a course for teachers.
Massachusetts began offering state-sponsored free AI training to all residents in February 2026 through a partnership with Google. By late June, more than 37,500 residents and several hundred non-residents had signed up, a total above 38,300. MassTech data shows 23% of enrollees are 55 or older and nearly 32% hold a graduate degree, compared with 23% statewide.
Beijing Investment Promotion Center recently held a citywide AI training series, inviting experts from Alibaba, Tencent, and Kingsoft Cloud to teach AI basics, office applications, and advanced skills, aiming to enhance officials' AI capabilities and integrate AI into investment promotion and enterprise services.
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Dapeng New District in Shenzhen recently completed its 2026 'AI + New Media' skills course, organized by the district's United Front and Social Development Bureau, with attendance totaling more than 40. The two-day program combined theory and hands-on practice in AI copywriting, video editing, and other areas to move new-media operations toward smarter, more efficient methods.
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Chongqing's judicial-administration drug-rehabilitation system recently opened a three-day 2026 'AI+' empowerment program at the Renhe section of the Yubei facility. It combines lectures, site visits, and thematic discussions. Experts from Chongqing University and Chongqing Normal University and officials from the municipal political and legal affairs commission and justice bureau teach topics including digital rule of law, Digital Chongqing, and basic AI theory. Huang Yang, a member of the bureau's Party committee and deputy director, attended and mobilized participants at the opening.
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The U.S. Department of State is offering about $200,000 through the EducationUSA AI Roadshow to bring experts from U.S. universities to Iraq to present AI education programs and promote university partnerships between the two countries. A single award of $185,000–$200,000 is expected, with applications due September 11, 2026. The program seeks to attract international students and promote responsible AI, data privacy, and related topics.
Xueersi has launched its flagship T6 series of learning devices alongside two modules, Advanced AI Tutor and International Academy. The first uses AI diagnosis and interactive classes to generate personalized learning paths, while the second targets the middle and premium market with English-learning resources. According to a CCID report, China's AI learning-device market was expected to exceed RMB 32 billion in 2025, with the six leading brands holding a combined 89.18% share.
Sunway College has launched a Diploma in Applied Artificial Intelligence covering machine learning, generative AI, natural-language processing, cloud AI, and intelligent systems. Students can build chatbots, predictive tools, and automated workflows and complete internships, including real projects at Sunway University's Centre for Human-Machine Collaboration Research in areas such as 3D mapping and oil-palm fruit-ripeness detection. The diploma provides a pathway to Sunway University bachelor's and master's degrees in AI. Sunway College also signed an MOU with an open-technology incubator to strengthen industry-academic cooperation.
Zuoyebang held an AI Super Teacher event on August 17, launching an upgraded AI tutor with two-way interaction and explanations it says rival a human teacher, alongside the premium Z100 and X70 Ultra learning devices. Zuoyebang says AI Super Teacher is the industry's only AI education agent at master-teacher level. Certification testing by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology found learning outcomes improved by more than 42% after use. Zuoyebang also says it holds over 30% of the market and ranks first in unit and revenue sales.
Karnataka Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar announced in an Independence Day address that the state plans to introduce AI education from Grade 6 through two programs, AI Akshara Abhiyana and Coding Gurukula. Karnataka also plans to establish India's first government-owned AI university in Bengaluru and launch AI certificate courses in January 2027.
Meta has partnered with Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy through its 3MTT program and National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, together with RAIN, to launch AI Academy Nigeria. It offers free AI courses, a startup pitchathon, and a developer boot camp for developers, startups, students, and early-career professionals. Pitchathon applications close August 21, 2026. Winners receive cash and advertising credits and an opportunity to attend an AI summit in Istanbul in November.
Yang Jun, co-founder of Meituan, founded an AI education company and received 60 million yuan in investment. The news was reported by Duozhi.com on August 16, 2026, as part of the education technology industry. The investment amount and founder identity are verifiable facts, showing continued capital and talent attraction in AI education.
A total of 142 government schools in Karnataka's Belagavi and Chikodi education districts are piloting AI education for grades 9–12 beginning this academic year. They include 74 schools in Chikodi and 68 in Belagavi, among them PM SHRI and Karnataka Public Schools. Grade 9 students can choose AI instead of a third language, and recruitment of 68 teachers with computer-related qualifications is in its final stage.
U.S. universities are rapidly expanding general AI education. Virginia Commonwealth University created an AI minor for non-computer-science students, Purdue University added an AI graduation requirement, Harvard University teaches large-language-model principles in first-year writing, and Ohio State University offers hands-on AI workshops. Enrollment in computer and information sciences at U.S. four-year colleges fell more than 8% from spring 2025.
Indian children's technology startup Wippi has raised a $1.2 million seed round led by 12 Flags. The funding will support voice-AI development, team expansion, and greater manufacturing capacity in India. The company plans to reach 15,000 families over the next 12 months and enter global markets. Growth Market Reports projects the worldwide children's audiobook-player market will reach $3.88 billion by 2033, a compound annual growth rate of 11.8%.
More than half of U.S. college students took at least one online course last year, up from about one-third in 2019. AI cheating has expanded from copying chatbot text to using agents to complete an entire semester of work, including watching lecture videos, taking quizzes, and writing papers. Teachers report difficulty detecting and preventing it. Some schools require in-person exams, but those are difficult to implement in online courses.
Wikimania 2026 held two EduWiki education sessions in Paris on July 22 and 24, 2026. The first, a panel on AI and Wikipedia in education, drew about 60 educators and Wikimedia project leaders. The second was the EduWiki Hub's first in-person workshop, where 30 participants worked in groups to design Wikimedia education activities.
Karnataka Chief Minister D K Shivakumar announced the AI Akshara Abhiyana and Coding Gurukula programme in his Independence Day speech on Saturday, introducing artificial intelligence education in schools across the state from Class 6. He said his government has already formulated programmes to transform the skills of today's youth and enable them to compete globally. Shivakumar also said the government is working on establishing India's first government-owned AI university in Bengaluru, and stressed the need to improve the quality of schools and colleges.
The Karnataka government announced plans to introduce AI education from Class 6 and set a target of creating 100,000 new jobs. The initiative aims to foster talent through early AI education to support employment growth. Specific implementation details are yet to be released.
The Jiangsu provincial government issued the Jiangsu High-Level University Development Plan (2026–2030) on August 14, 2026. It aims to place one or two universities among the world's leading institutions and more than ten provincial universities among China's leaders by 2030. The plan calls for emerging interdisciplinary programs in AI and other fields and establishes an AI initiative to enable high-level university development.
Haivivi launched billyboo, its first IP-based AI plush pendant blind box, on August 14. A single box costs RMB 99, and a full set contains six blind boxes. The product has long-term memory, and users can chat with characters and unlock storylines through the TapDoki app. TapDoki's first national store will open in Shenzhen's MixC Phase II, expanding the customer base from children to young adults.
Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has launched Global Virtual School for AI education in grades 6–12. The platform includes AI teachers, supports Urdu, English, and Pashto, and offers four foreign languages: Chinese, German, Korean, and Japanese. It initially connects 175 government schools and is scheduled to expand to 500 by the end of this month or early next month.
Guangdong's Department of Human Resources and Social Security launched the 'Yuet Learning—AI Training for Households' initiative in Guangzhou on August 15, with more than 1,000 AI courses in its first release. Running from August 2026 through January 2027, it targets 1,000 courses, 1,000 events, and one million training attendances. Dedicated sections launched concurrently on platforms in Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Zhuhai, and other cities, allowing workers to learn by computer or phone.
Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government formally launched Global Virtual School on August 15, the country's first such public-sector initiative, to provide virtual AI education. The first phase connects 175 schools, with expansion to 500 planned by the end of the month or early next month. For grades 6–12, it offers AI teachers, virtual laboratories, and multilingual courses.
Luke Rowe of Australian Catholic University published a paper in Education Sciences proposing the GRAIT model, which introduces AI into K–12 education in three stages: independent cognition, shared cognition, and transition. In an experiment with nearly 1,000 secondary students, standard GPT-4 improved supported practice scores by 48%, but scores fell 17% on a later unsupported assessment. Controlled GPT tutoring improved performance by 127%, but the advantage disappeared when it was removed.
Public-school districts in California and Florida are expanding strategic use of AI in K–12 classrooms to support lesson preparation and student literacy without replacing mastery of core subjects. California's San Juan Unified is in its second year of providing MagicSchool AI to students in Grade 2 and above; teacher Kathleen Records evaluates work by setting prompts, rubrics, and expectations. Florida's Indian River County district monitors access on district devices and uses AI to group students by academic needs. In higher education, Sacramento State has committed to a $39 million agreement with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT campus-wide.
South Africa has opened a factory and showroom for the locally made humanoid AI tutor IRIS at Durban's Dube TradePort. The company was founded by BSG and Technologies founder Thando Gumede. It plans to create 20,000 jobs within five years and ultimately deploy IRIS to 23,000 schools nationwide. The tutor is designed to assist rather than replace teachers, providing learning support, personalized help, and performance analysis.
High school students representing all 50 states produced a national framework for using software and AI in schools at America's Youth AI Festival, named the "Students First Act of 2026." According to the School Superintendents Association, it requires AI-literacy instruction when students first use digital devices in school, bars using AI to complete artistic or written assignments, and from 9th grade allows AI with teacher permission as a supplementary aid for brainstorming, studying and editing. It also gives students the right to appeal accusations of improper AI use with meaningful human review, and prevents schools from using AI to profile students or independently determine grades, discipline or hiring.
K12 Academics released its 2026 State of AI in Education Report on August 14, 2026. The report says 60% of teachers used AI in the 2024–25 school year, roughly double the year before; 54% of K-12 students and 92% of university students use AI for schoolwork; 86% of education organizations use generative AI; teachers who use AI weekly save an average of 5.9 hours a week; and 68% of teachers received no AI training. It also says roughly 34 states plus D.C. and Puerto Rico have issued AI guidance, while most district policies still do not reference it.
China Mobile Yunnan announced on August 14, 2026, that its Mobile Cloud Pad now integrates the Mobile Study Companion app across four settings: developmental companionship, early education, academic learning, and English practice. Built on the education-AI capabilities of the Lingxi agent, it offers photo-based homework help, AI spoken-English assessment, guided picture-book reading, and academic support from primary through lower-secondary school.
Changzhou's Tianning District held a meeting on August 13 to advance AI night-school training for all, explaining its three-year action plan (2026–2028) and standards for recognizing model OPC communities. By 2028, it plans a cumulative 100,000 attendances in online and offline AI training and 300 in-person sessions, including 50 night-school sessions. Tianning is responsible for one-tenth of Changzhou's overall training target.
South Korea's Chonnam National University established an Institute for AI Convergence Education reporting directly to the president on July 30 to coordinate AI talent development, resource sharing, and community service. It promotes regional AI education through a college for regional universities, an online preservice-teacher program, and an AI citizens' academy. CNU also hosted a 2026 Korea-Japan student exchange in higher education for 20 students from 11 Japanese universities.
IIT Roorkee has launched a four-month postgraduate certificate in Building AI-Powered Business Applications for working professionals, with no programming experience required. Delivered online, it covers more than 15 AI and automation tools and develops applied skills through hands-on exercises and a capstone project.
Google added a vibe-coding course to its AI Professional Certificate on August 11 for learners with no programming experience. It teaches them to use natural-language instructions and Google AI Studio to build, test, debug, and deploy applications. Google launched the certificate in February and calls it Coursera's most popular generative-AI certificate, although it has not disclosed enrollment.
The third International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence was held in Astana, Kazakhstan, with 471 contestants from 108 countries and regions. All eight members of China's team won awards, earning five gold and three silver medals. China also received an Outstanding Contribution Award for successfully hosting the inaugural Asia-Pacific Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence (APOAI 2026).
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Researchers at two Kazakhstani universities ran a quasi-experimental study with 280 undergraduate foreign language teacher education students, split into an experimental group and a control group of 140 each. The experimental group received a 12-week intervention integrating communicative-situational technologies and ChatGPT-5, while the control group received traditional instruction based on reading comprehension, vocabulary and grammar practice, and textbook discussions. Linguocultural competence was assessed with a rubric covering cognitive-conceptual, pragmatic-communicative and professional cross-cultural dimensions; the study reports significantly greater gains for the experimental group, with Time x Group interaction effects all at p < .001.
Douglas County School District Superintendent Erin Kane said the district's classrooms are committed to using Gemini, Gemini Notebook and Google Classroom. She said teachers can use AI for administrative tasks so they can spend more time teaching, and students need to learn to use AI safely, ethically, responsibly and with discernment. The district is working on Gemini certification for middle school and high school staff and students by Spring Break 2027.
According to Duozhi, Meituan co-founder Yang Jun founded Beijing Qihang Xinweilai Technology Co., Ltd., entering the AI education sector. The company was established in November 2024 with registered capital of 11.235843 million yuan and Zhu Xiaolan as legal representative. Its website states it has completed 60 million yuan in financing, with shareholders including university associate professor Li Ze and former Meituan executives Lai Binqiang and Gan Jiawei. Qihang Xinweilai positions itself in career planning consulting for people aged 18-35, offering AI products such as Dazego AI Zhibao and Baoyan Wang, and reports over 100,000 cumulative users.
The Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education will establish an RAS (Reading, Arts, Sports) Education Division and a Democratic Citizenship Education Division on September 1, and will rename the Regional Education Policy Division as the Wall-breaking Cooperation Division and the Digital Education Policy Division as the AI Education Policy Division. The restructuring aims to implement the core pledges of Superintendent Minseok Ahn. The AI Education Policy Division will advance human-centered AI education and reinforce policies including the supplementation and expansion of the AI education platform. The amendment enacting the restructuring was subject to legislative notice from August 3 to 7 and takes effect on September 1.
Following a spring pilot, Cornell University will expand its AI literacy program in the fall to all first-year students and interested students, faculty, and staff. The program includes four modules delivered through Canvas. The pilot showed measurable literacy gains in areas such as how AI tools work and how large language models are developed.
Meituan co-founder Yang Jun has established the AI education company Beijing Qihang Xin Weilai Technology Co., Ltd. Founded in November 2024 with registered capital of RMB 11.235843 million, it has raised RMB 60 million and served more than 100,000 users. Its predecessor was Beijing Gangcheng Technology Co., Ltd., founded in 2017, which developed the Xuanhe AI large model and AI companion products in 2023–2024.
The Mark Cuban Foundation is running its first adult AI education program, Agentic AI Academy, at Dallas College from August 17–21, 2026. The free five-day program is open to community-college students with no technical background required. In partnership with New York worker-rights nonprofit Lift Our Voices, participants will learn to build work-related AI agents and test LOV's contract-review tool.
Lumitel Technology has signed a strategic agreement with Liangshi Yanxuan, an education-technology brand owned by Hongmeng Group, to promote Dan Xiaohuang, an officially licensed AI smart toy based on Eggy Party. The companies will cooperate on channel operations, content, and education use cases to move the toy from a technology demonstration into everyday companionship. The partnership marks Lumitel's move from product R&D toward ecosystem collaboration.
At the National Youth AI Festival in Boston, student leaders from across the United States proposed the first draft national AI policy for K–12 classrooms, called the STUDENTS First Act. Developed through three hours of debate, it will be submitted for discussion to AASA's 10,000 member districts. The draft covers transparency, literacy, safety, and other core provisions. Participants came from Alaska, Florida, Hawaii, Kansas, Maine, and Massachusetts.
European AI coding startup Lovable announced a $400 million Series C on August 13, 2026, led by Menlo Ventures and the Scaleup Europe Fund at a $13.3 billion valuation. The company reported $500 million in annual recurring revenue in June and now hosts 60 million projects with 900 million monthly visits.
On August 12, 2026, Frontiers in Education published an original research article by authors from Ulster University and Queen's University Belfast. Drawing on four module case studies in STEM, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Northern Ireland universities, the study examines AI literacy and instructor AI skepticism in AI adoption. It finds substantial disciplinary variation in AI literacy, skepticism, and acceptance, while structured instructional approaches significantly reduce misconceptions and enhance ethical AI usage. The authors recommend targeted faculty training, clear institutional policies, and structured curriculum integration.
Ruanyun Edai Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: RYET) announced on August 12, 2026 a strategic collaboration with Intersect Holding, signed at LEAP East 2026 in Hong Kong on July 10. The two sides plan to combine Ruanyun's AI education products and China market capabilities with Intersect's Saudi commercialization and venture-building platform to localize technologies, build ventures and pursue commercial opportunities in the Kingdom. Initial priorities include AI education, technology commercialization and partnership development, with projects to be assessed based on market demand and execution readiness.
Midwestern State University (MSU Texas) has developed an Artificial Intelligence Strategic Plan over the past year, proposing four categories—AI-prohibited, AI-critical, AI-limited and AI-exploratory—that let courses decide generative AI use by discipline and learning goals. The university also offers a Writing and AI course and plans to survey students' confidence in their generative AI skills. Provost Marcy Brown Marsden has commissioned an Academic Integrity and Policy Task Force to submit recommendations by March 2027.
In August 2026, Privi Speciality Chemicals Limited established an Artificial Intelligence Centre at Hirwal Education Trust's College of Science, Computer Science and Information Technology in Mahad, India, equipped with AI-enabled computer systems, internet-connected smart panels, specialised classroom infrastructure, power backup and technology-enabled learning resources. Since its launch, the Centre has hosted workshops, lectures and training sessions, including AI-focused workshops conducted by Chetan Taksale, Director of Softech Solutions and Services, along with expert sessions by Pushkar Adhikari, Harshita Gaikwad and Masooda Antule.
Chuanzhi Education (003032.SZ) said its closing price had risen 136.01% cumulatively since July 24, 2026, and that its stock has been under close monitoring by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, with a possible trading halt review if prices rise further abnormally. The company said its main business has always been traditional education, and that its AI talent vocational training differs from other skills training only in AI-related teaching content, not in teaching format, service process or business logic. Its new offline embodied intelligence development course has not yet officially started, has generated no revenue or profit, and faces highly uncertain market demand; the company does not conduct mass R&D or production of robot products.
iFlytek AI Learning Machine has become the exclusive sponsor of 'One Stop to Win: Youth Season 2', a show focusing on AI-empowered brain competitions to inspire youth potential. The partnership deeply integrates the AI learning machine brand with a youth quiz show, expanding product exposure among families and students.
U.S. AI learning platform Wild Zebra has raised $6 million led by Trilogy Equity Partners, bringing total funding to $8 million. Using AI to teach reading and mathematics to grades 2–9, it has grown from about 6,000 users a year ago to tens of thousands. Six schools currently partner with the platform, which is also available directly to families for $48 per month.
After receiving a $150,000 Delaware Pathways Middle Grades Grant, Freire Charter School teacher Beth Yirga organized a multi-party meeting in October 2025. A student had asked, 'If AI can do everything, what's the point of learning?' prompting her to seek advice across industries. At the Women Who Code Summit, she found that technology executives and educators shared the same concerns. More than 47% of the school's students are classified as economically disadvantaged, and the project must meet Delaware's career and technical education exploration standards for middle school.
Malaysia's government is expanding the Rakyat Digital learning platform with 100,000 places for citizens ages 18–30 to receive three months of free access to leading AI tools from August 31, 2026. Beginning September 16, the Global Learning Pass will enroll 25,000 people each quarter for three free months of Coursera. An AI Builders Hub will launch in October to support participants in developing their own AI solutions.
Malaysia's Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo launched the Rakyat Digital portal at Malaysia AI Takeover 2026 in Ampang on August 11. People ages 18–30 who complete five designated learning modules receive three months of free access to leading generative-AI applications, rolled out in phases from August 31. Another 100,000 Malaysians can receive three free months of Coursera with more than 16,000 courses; the first 25,000 begin September 16.
On August 12, the Suzhou Education Bureau published a notice launching a call and showcase for 'AI + Education' application scenarios and a citywide program to train AI education lead teachers in primary and secondary schools.
The National University of Singapore announced on August 11 that from August 2026 all undergraduates must complete compulsory artificial intelligence courses, including a new university-wide module, Applied Generative AI: From Prompting to Evaluation. AI-related courses will be integrated into the common curricula of the College of Humanities and Sciences, College of Design and Engineering, Business School and Healthcare Professional Education, which cover more than 85 per cent of NUS undergraduates. Every major will also add at least one compulsory course examining how AI is reshaping that profession.
Wesley Williams, director of operations for Roanoke City Public Schools in Virginia, told 10 News the district plans to use at least two AI tools this school year: Magic School AI and ClassLink. ClassLink will let school officials track if and when students and staff use AI on school-issued devices, including usage frequency and access times. Williams said the approach is methodical, practical and tailored, and must follow school guidelines and non-negotiables before any AI tool is approved. PTA President Jessica Blandy said the emphasis should remain on teaching skills and the mechanics and usage of English.
StocksToTrade reported that a subsidiary of Wah Fu Education Group Limited (NASDAQ: WAFU) has signed three AI-driven customization projects with Chinese higher-education and medical institutions, and that the projects are already in the implementation phase. The first target verticals are cross-border engineering, smart agriculture and medical teaching. The report said WAFU shares rose as much as 35.86 percent after the news.
ENGAUSA Global Tech Hub held STARTUP FRIDAY at Kano's Technology Incubation Centre on July 31, partnering with New York-based AI CERTs to launch internationally recognized AI certifications and hold a graduation ceremony for its first certified trainers and learners. The event also recognized 12 visually impaired learners who completed a PC exploration course and launched a skills program offering free smartphone-repair and solar-installation training to Almajiri children.
UTEP's College of Education held the Built Here Summit on August 11 to report results from El Paso Computes. Since launching in 2025, the program has trained 721 teachers, provided advanced computing skills to 500 students through summer camps, reached 131 schools, and benefited more than 25,000 K–12 students. The summit also began a new phase of cooperation among education, industry, government, and the community.
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India's National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration announced two new master's programs at its 20th-anniversary celebration: an MA in AI in Education and an MA in School Leadership. Offered by this deemed-to-be university under India's Ministry of Education, the programs aim to strengthen educational planning, governance, and institutional capacity in support of the Viksit Bharat@2047 vision.
Google announced on August 11, 2026, that it is expanding its AI Professional Certificate with a vibe-coding course that teaches learners to build applications in everyday language without programming experience. Since launching in February, the certificate has become Coursera's most popular generative-AI certificate, and U.S. searches for it have risen 140% year over year.
The National University of Singapore has announced that all undergraduates entering from August must complete at least two compulsory AI courses to graduate. Under the strategy announced on August 11, all new students will take the introductory module 'Applied Generative AI: From Prompting to Evaluation,' and every major will add at least one required AI-related course. Of NUS's approximately 29,600 undergraduates, more than 85% are in colleges that incorporate AI into common curricula.
Oyster CEO Hadi Moussa said in an interview that the company is in a high-growth phase as it moves from $100 million toward $1 billion in revenue and plans to accelerate its transformation into an AI-native company. Through an Employer of Record model, Oyster helps companies build distributed teams in more than 180 countries without establishing local legal entities. Moussa also said worldwide demand for AI skills exceeds supply and that Oyster plans to provide infrastructure for the transition.
Beihang University has released admissions information for its micro-credential in Artificial Intelligence and Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences, opening it to public learners for the first time with 30 places in the initial cohort. The program uses blended online and in-person teaching on weekends, and students who complete ten credits receive a certificate. Applications close August 20, 2026, with enrollment around September–October 2026.
A Heilongjiang summit on high-quality industry development enabled by 'AI+' and the launch ceremony for the National AI Application Pilot Base for crop cultivation were recently held in Harbin. Chen Shaobo, a member of the provincial Party committee and executive vice governor, attended and unveiled the base. Built by China Mobile Heilongjiang, it serves producers, agricultural service companies, research organizations, and regulators nationwide, with a validation path covering 10,000 mu in its pilot zone, one million mu in its adoption zone, and more than 100 million mu in its wider reach.
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According to Beijing Daily, as of August 2026 all six leading models in the monthly usage rankings on global AI model aggregator OpenRouter were Chinese open-source models, including two from Beijing companies. Zhipu had more than 6.35 million developers worldwide and $1 billion in annual recurring revenue, up from $100 million in just five months. 01.AI established a joint venture, Q.AI, with Kazakhstan, and orders exceeded RMB 1.5 billion in the first five months of the year.
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A US college history professor embedded a hidden instruction in a midterm discussion-post assignment, telling AI tools to include the word "Madagascar" nonsensically in responses. According to USA Today, Professor Jason Gibson said 32 of his 35 students submitted answers containing the hidden word, and those students failed a portion of the midterm. Gibson said he does not oppose students using AI, but draws the line at having AI generate an entire assignment, and believes schools and educators need to adapt to AI rather than ban it.
On August 10, 2026, Kaplan announced an upgrade to its MCAT preparation offerings, adding 21 full-length practice tests, including all seven official AAMC exams, a proprietary AI Tutor, interactive answer explanations, CARS Skillbuilders, and updated 2027–2028 books with online integration. The AI Tutor provides on-demand study guidance such as personalized study tips, content explanations, and resource recommendations. Kaplan says its own practice tests are psychometrically validated and it continues to offer a score guarantee.
Egyptian digital education company UMAMI announced the launch of its new platform LOS, combining AI with an integrated learning framework to serve government institutions, educational institutions, and companies in Egypt and the Arab region. The platform has an investment exceeding 50 million Egyptian pounds (about $1 million), aiming to unify learning, skills acquisition, job-market readiness measurement, and institutional performance analysis.
On the afternoon of July 29, the Zhanjiang Market Regulation Bureau held an AI agent basic application training, inviting China Mobile Zhanjiang branch technical team to teach, covering AI basics, intellectual property agent building, and platform practice. The training demonstrated agent building using an 'IP Q&A assistant' example and hands-on practice on Dify. Next steps include deepening the 'AI+IP' model and expanding AI applications in public services.
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Huairou District in Beijing recently opened its 2026 AI course series under the free Community Skills Classroom program. The first course, 'Introduction to AI Applications at Work,' attracted 40 residents, and the five-course series received 220 cumulative registrations. Content includes AI task analysis, structured questioning, and content verification for work. Later courses cover AI graphics and short video and the AI trainer occupation.
Yangzhou Skills Night School opened a free course on AI applications and hands-on practice on August 9 for company employees, young entrepreneurs, university graduates, and others. Modules include practical work with a Yangzhou-dialect large model and building a knowledge base for AI toys. Yangzhou plans more than 600,000 AI-training attendances and over 1,500 in-person classes by 2028.
The Standing Committee of the Minqing County People's Congress held a video training session on AI on August 4 for government staff and county congress deputies in 16 townships. The meeting studied Xi Jinping's address at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and assigned goals including a '3531' industrial system, the Meixi Agent Town, and the recruitment and development of 30 algorithm and AIGC companies.
Karnataka, Mizoram, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi are advancing AI education. Karnataka's deputy chief minister announced an AI university and plans to introduce AI learning from Grade 6. Mizoram's chief minister discussed integrating Gemini AI into classrooms with Google, which will provide free teacher training. Delhi opened a STEM laboratory covering AI, robotics, and other areas at Sarvodaya Vidyalaya in Pitampura.
HKUST Business School conducted a workplace AI survey from March to April 2026 and collected 3,722 valid responses. It found that 72.7% of Hong Kong respondents use AI daily or weekly, far above the global average of 31%. Among frequent users, 81.66% use generative AI, mainly to draft documents, summarize information, and develop ideas.
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A Mount Saint Vincent University study surveyed 53 educators and held three focus groups with 12 participants. It found that higher-education faculty lack institutional guidance, must judge AI use themselves, and often act 'on suspicion rather than evidence.' The study proposes a CARE framework with four commitments: critical AI literacy, accountable governance, relational and affective pedagogy, and ethical orientation. An earlier Fraser Institute report found that 64.7% of teachers in grades 6–12 had received neither training nor tools for identifying AI use.
The language-learning app PandaCoco - AI Tutor released version 3.0.5 on the App Store, adding one free lesson per day and in-app viewing and management of subscriptions. The update also improves stability, performance and the voice experience. Earlier versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.3 had introduced a new design, a Practice section with flashcards, pronunciation, writing, listening and review, and a redesigned Path and Progress with a weekly goal.
India's central government has established four AI Centers of Excellence. The newly announced AI-CoE for Education is based at IIT Madras with total funding of ₹50 billion. Three earlier centers led by IIT Ropar, IIT Kanpur, and IISc Bengaluru received combined funding of ₹99 billion, bringing total committed funding for all four to ₹149 billion. The education center has developed automatic speech recognition, optical character recognition, machine translation, and text-to-speech models with a focus on Indian languages.
UNESCO launched its first free course, the Global MOOC on the Ethics of AI, on the Coursera platform, developed with LG AI Research. The nine-hour course is available in 11 languages, including Hindi, requires no advanced technical knowledge, and targets university students, researchers, policymakers, and technology leaders. Through hands-on projects, it covers privacy, transparency, sustainability, and human autonomy, helping learners turn ethical principles into practical decisions and policies.
Singapore's Ministry of Education launched its Teacher AI Literacy Professional Learning Roadmap in August 2026, requiring every primary, secondary, and junior college teacher to complete a foundational AI module on ethics, safety, and responsible use by the end of 2026. The other two modules are recommended by the end of 2027, and each takes about 30–45 minutes online. Singapore had 29,605 primary, secondary, and junior college teachers as of 2024.
Vi Foundation has opened an AI education center in Varanasi in partnership with the District Institute of Education and Training. It offers preservice teachers a four-module AI course covering fundamentals, safety, and ethics. Integrated into the DIET core curriculum, the center aims to reach 650 schools and more than 68,000 teachers and students.
According to Technavio, the global education-app market reached $620 million in 2024 and is projected to grow to $4.16 billion by 2033, with language learning among the fastest-growing subcategories. Speak completed a Series C in December 2024 at a $1 billion valuation, becoming the first English-speaking app unicorn; investors include OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. A year after launching in Taiwan, Speak won Google Play's App of the Year and now ranks fifth among education downloads in the App Store.
A product review on August 8 found that Xiaoyuan Kousuan had been renamed 'Xiaoyuan AI.' The App Store listing and product website combine the original arithmetic grading, the Xiaoyuan question-search bank, and generative explanations in a single entry point.
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The August r/edtech developer thread collected product self-submissions. Visible leads include question-perspective learning platform Mindsprout, K–8 coding adventure CodeVenture, teacher tool TeamTeacher.ai, and DyboApp, which combines handwritten annotations with a dynamic knowledge model.
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Lyceum's website says a beta is planned for August 2026. Designed for adults seeking systematic self-study, it first collects learning goals, background, desired depth, and available time, then organizes a course pathway and authentic materials.
Mortarboard.ai serves university teachers and students. Teachers can upload syllabi, rubrics, and historical materials for the system to draft feedback aligned with their standards; students use the same course materials for questions, quizzes, and essay revision.
Alice.tech serves university learners, generating overviews, practice, flashcards, and mock exams from course materials and identifying weak areas based on responses. Its website says the product supports ten languages.
Heeyo is an AI companion and learning product for children aged 3–11. Its website presents multilingual conversation, learning games, stories, and course creation, with settings that parents or teachers can tailor to age, interests, and family values.
On August 5, 2026, Wang Jingzhi, CFO of Tianli Qiming, the smart education brand under Tianli International Holdings, spoke at the 20th Frost & Sullivan Global Growth, Innovation and Leadership Summit in Shanghai, describing the company's path from AI education products to an education AI operating system. The talk disclosed that AI Sprint Camp started in 2024 with 36 borderline students at Yibin Tianli School and by 2026 covered 50 internal and external schools and more than 2,500 students across 15 provinces. AI Study Rooms have been deployed in more than 50 schools and entered multiple Zhongshuge stores under a joint-operation model.
Danish Education Minister Magnus Heunicke announced immediate measures on Thursday to tackle rising AI-assisted cheating in upper secondary schools. All written tests completed at home will require oral defences, including the SSO exam taken annually by about 9,000 upper secondary students. Schools must use screen monitoring tools during written exams and firewall filtering during teaching hours and exams. Upper secondary schools are also encouraged to have students complete assignments at school under controlled conditions.
From July 30 to August 2, the China Computer Federation's 2026 Annual Conference on Youth Computer Education was held in Xi'an, with Yuan Coding as the exclusive partner and a participant in a forum on reshaping informatics-olympiad talent development in the AI era. An August 7 company promotional article said Yuan Coding demonstrated an intelligent agent positioned as an AI problem-solving coach, with claimed capabilities including diagnostic assessment, adaptive learning, learning analysis, remediation planning, and error tracing. The article also said the agent would later be integrated into Yuan Coding OJ, so current evidence confirms only the demonstration and plan, not a public launch, real-world use, or learning results.
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Knowable again presented its product on Hacker News under 'Visual Grounding.' Its website describes pointing a Mac camera or an iPhone Continuity Camera at paper materials; the student presses a key to ask a question, and Milo gives a hint based on the current view.
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On August 7, eSchool News examined the practical situation facing US schools as they develop AI rules. Many schools are addressing whether and when students may use AI first, with rulemaking moving faster than judgments about learning goals and tool quality.
Susquehanna University announced on August 5, 2026 that it has been awarded nearly $100,000 to advance AI education. The headline and page metadata confirm the amount and purpose; the rest of the page consists of scripts and styles, with no funder, project details or timeline provided.
UNESCO announced that Pope Leo XIV will visit its Paris headquarters on 25 September 2026 at the invitation of Director-General Khaled El-Enany. The event covers artificial intelligence, information integrity, education and artistic creation in the age of AI, with a youth forum in the morning and a high-level ceremony in the afternoon featuring a keynote by the Pontiff. It is the first papal visit to UNESCO in over four decades, the last being Pope John Paul II in 1980. The two sides will strengthen cooperation on artificial intelligence.
Hindustan Times reports that UNESCO has partnered with Coursera to launch a free AI ethics course open to learners and institutions. The report identifies UNESCO and Coursera as the two parties behind the course and describes it as free, aimed at individual learners and organizations. The original text does not disclose the launch date, course length, language versions, certificate arrangements, or enrollment numbers.
Denmark's government introduced an emergency plan after a rise in AI cheating cases in high schools during this summer's exam season. The plan includes oral exams for about 9,000 students annually, monitoring computer screens during written exams, network filtering, and encouraging supervised on-campus written work. Schools, students, and parents still believe AI should not be simply banned but used reasonably.
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UNESCO and Coursera have launched a free online course, the Global MOOC on the Ethics of AI, lasting nine hours and available in 11 languages including Hindi, Mandarin Chinese, French, and Arabic. Developed with LG AI Research and experts from Carnegie Mellon and the Alan Turing Institute, the course covers topics like privacy, transparency, and human autonomy, and is open to students, tech leaders, and researchers.
Hope appeared publicly on Hacker News as a Show HN post on August 6, with the title describing it as a one-to-one mathematics AI tutor for students in grades 2–10.
An episode of the EdSurge podcast This Week with EdSurge discusses how K-12 schools regulate AI from two vantage points: Jody Britten spent a year coding AI policies from more than 100 school districts into a five-level framework ranging from active promotion to outright prohibition, while Tambra Clark helped write her Birmingham district's AI governance policy from scratch. The episode says Britten's findings point to a system that leans cautious and is often disconnected from the state guidance meant to inform it.
An AI education forum will open in Amman, Jordan next Saturday, according to the Jordan News Agency Petra. The event focuses on AI applications in education, with details on agenda and participants yet to be announced.
On August 3, 2026, NMIMS University extended the NMIMS Horizon initiative to undergraduate programs, covering engineering, science, pharmacy, and commerce schools. The initiative provides approximately 40,000 students access to global learning resources via Coursera at no additional cost. AI learning is embedded in the curriculum with a faculty-led model combining mentoring, assignments, projects, and assessments.
MagicSchool AI founder Adeel Khan said in an interview that the platform works with major U.S. districts including Denver Public Schools and Broward and Hillsborough county schools. The company says it partners with schools attended by one-fifth of U.S. students and has about eight million registered educators worldwide. It has raised nearly $63 million in total, with its latest round a $2.4 million seed led by Range Ventures, and revenue tripled year over year last year.
On August 5, Tom's Guide interviewed StarSpark founder Ashish Bansal. The product serves K–12 and AP mathematics and science, organizing tutoring around grade adaptation, Socratic questioning, and step-level checking.
On August 5, EdSurge examined implementation problems as AI policies enter real classrooms. Written rules can provide direction, but teachers still need to turn permitted uses, disclosure methods, and learning goals into classroom agreements that students can understand.
Voca's developer launched the product on Hacker News, arguing that most AI tutors easily drift from the learning path and therefore organizing language-learning conversations around a curriculum.
The App Store listing shows Podix: AI Tutor & Mock, developed by LEVEREDGE GROUP LIMITED, targets Hong Kong students from primary and secondary school through DSE and university. After a user enters a subject, the app builds a course outline referencing the Hong Kong EDB and HKEAA curriculum and generates a lesson for each topic. Lessons are one-on-one dialogues between AI tutor Alex and student Jenny, taught in Cantonese for Chinese-medium schools and in English for EMI schools.
Ngee Ann Polytechnic and NCS have jointly developed a curriculum-grounded AI tutor for polytechnic students, offering tailored support to help them grasp module concepts faster and in greater depth. The item was published by CNA on 4 August 2026 and updated on 5 August 2026.
China's Ministry of Education has issued Guidelines for the Learning-by-Doing Leadership Initiative in Science Education During Compulsory Education and launched the initiative. Students in grades 4–9 must complete at least one scientific-inquiry task of at least four class periods each semester; there is no additional requirement for grades 1–3. The guidelines provide six thematic examples including artificial intelligence and add performance assessment to students' comprehensive-quality records without a separate examination requirement.
EduClaw-Bench was submitted to arXiv on August 4. It uses a knowledge-tracing model trained on real student data to construct simulated learners, allowing AI tutors to interact continuously through an LMS for 30 days.
Knowable first entered the public lead set through Show HN on August 4. The product points a camera at a textbook or notes, lets AI read the current paper content, and then provides guiding hints through text and voice.
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On August 4, EdSurge documented teachers' continued classroom experiments with AI. Use cases center on lesson preparation, rewriting materials, feedback, and differentiated support, while teachers still need to judge whether outputs suit specific students.
On August 4, Tech & Learning discussed learning contexts in which teachers and students should avoid AI. The criterion is the purpose of the task: when the practice itself is meant to build foundational ability, personal expression, or independent judgment, handing it directly to AI weakens the learning process.
On August 2, the first Suzhou general AI skills training session under the "AI Empowerment, Skills Renewal" program was held at the Suzhou Entrepreneurship Park in China, with 60 urban and rural workers interested in AI-related jobs attending. The course covered AI fundamentals and learning paths, LLM prompt engineering and task expression, comprehensive AI visual applications and practice, and quick onboarding to mainstream AI platforms and tools. Zhou Cheng, deputy director of the Suzhou Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, said the city fully launched the summer skills training program this summer and is simultaneously implementing a special "AI+" skills talent training initiative.
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The Future Economics Institute published its report on AI application and data governance in Hong Kong primary and secondary schools on August 3. Over one year the team visited more than 40 secondary schools and 40 primary schools and collected over 200,000 pieces of student AI coursework data, finding that the AI platforms used by schools do not interconnect and lack unified standards, creating data silos. The report recommends that schools assess data storage and export arrangements when procuring AI platforms, that school sponsoring bodies set common data governance requirements, and that a voluntary product certification scheme be built across sectors.
South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT launched the 'AI Growth Ladder for All' project on August 3, covering AI education, development, and startup support. The project includes three pillars: AI Learning Hub, AI Lab, and AI Lounge. The AI Learning Hub integrates public and private education platforms, while the AI Lab provides free development tools and datasets. The initiative aims to build a step-by-step growth framework from learning to commercialization.
On August 3, 2026, Coursera announced a $100 million strategic equity investment in LearnVector, a new AI-native learning company founded and led by Andrew Ng. The investment represents a one-third ownership interest in LearnVector on a fully diluted basis and aims to advance Coursera's AI strategy. LearnVector plans to use AI agents for personalized one-on-one learning, with first product experiences targeted for early 2027.
On July 20, the 2026 World AI Conference was held in Shanghai, releasing the AI Cooperation and Development Action Plan and other achievements. The plan aims to promote global sharing of China's AI development dividends, attracting attention from overseas Chinese entrepreneurs. Several representatives expressed intentions to connect with domestic tech resources.
DyboApp 26.08 alpha was released on GitHub on August 3. Running on GNU/Linux and Cuis-Smalltalk, it combines course cycles, tasks, handwritten documents, and dynamic knowledge models that can be authored by people or AI.
The implementation timeline from the EU AI Act Service Desk shows that most rules under the Act begin to apply on August 2, 2026, bringing transparency obligations, innovation-support measures, and corresponding enforcement into a new phase.
Pearson's official announcement says its AI learning modules for higher education were already available internationally and were planned to enter the United States by August 1. The content spans more than 20 areas including business, health, science, and social sciences.
The iFlytek AI Study app released version 4.9.0 on the App Store, adding multi-person study rooms in the homework space and a whole-device minor mode for learning machines, with adapted third-party apps able to sync that mode status. The app is developed by iFlytek and serves as a parent-side tool for viewing learning activity, managing learning devices and sending study resources.
The West Virginia Department of Education announced the rollout of what it calls the nation's first comprehensive statewide framework for using AI in public schools, with plans to train all educators, administrators, and students by the start of the 2027-28 school year. The framework aims to provide consistent guidance across districts, focusing on safe, ethical, and effective AI use, and preventing students from using AI as a substitute for learning. State Superintendent Michele Blatt spearheaded the initiative, emphasizing that AI will not replace teachers.
On July 30, 2026, the 2026 AI Product Application Expo opened at the Suzhou International Expo Center. The expo, themed 'One Origin, All AI', deeply connects with the World AI Conference (WAIC), focusing on new industrialization, large models and AI computing power industry chain, entrepreneurship ecosystem and Token economy, promoting bidirectional introduction of Suzhou's industrial scenarios and Shanghai's innovation resources.
iHUB and Mastercard Foundation have selected 12 early-stage Kenyan startups for an 18-month EdTech Fellowship, with up to $100,000 in equity-free financing for each company. The cohort focuses on assistive technology and AI-supported learning products for learners with disabilities, refugees, displaced people, girls, and rural communities. An earlier eight-month cohort served growth-stage companies, while this one targets early-stage startups.
On July 31, iAfrica reported that iHUB and the Mastercard Foundation had selected 12 early-stage Kenyan edtech teams. Six focus on learners with disabilities, while others develop multilingual, offline, or AI-assisted learning products.
App Store data shows that MakesYouFluent 2.14.2 was updated on July 30. The release notes add Spanish–English and English Immersion learning experiences on the AI Practice page.
ARIA AI Tutor released version 2.4.2 on the App Store, fixing textbook page preview and reader loading issues and letting users create a new subject directly from the textbook upload screen. The app targets medical, dental, and health-science students and offers note generation, AI tutor explanations, MCQ practice, and problem solving. Version 2.4.0 had already let Neo accept spoken or tapped answers and enabled Neo and Kai to reference what the user has already studied.
The Salamanca City Central School District in rural upstate New York had approved the nearly $60,000 purchase of Realbotix's humanoid robot 'Sally' for high school robotics classes. Amid concerns from state education officials, teachers, and residents about the maker's ties to a sex doll company and data privacy, the district paused the pilot and is working on enhanced student data privacy agreements.
Knowable, an education app from developer Samuel Xu, is available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision, requiring iOS 17.0 or later. Its AI tutor, Milo, uses the camera to read a problem and offers hints based on the user's current progress instead of giving the answer. The app includes a Test Prep mode that generates practice problems from uploaded course materials, with 1,000 free credits per month and 10,000 credits per month on subscription.
On July 19, Yuan Coding began a brand upgrade and released its 5A youth AI literacy framework at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference youth AI education forum. The five levels cover understanding, applying, judging, using AI responsibly, and mastering AI. The Star Plan launched at the same event sets a company goal of opening the existing Yuan Chuang Future platform free of charge to 5,000 primary and secondary schools nationwide over the next two years. The 5,000-school figure is a target, and the report provides no school list, course launches, or usage outcomes.
On July 21, StarSpark announced the launch of a connected adaptive learning system. The company places explanation, practice, assessment, and review in one learning flow, with the system adjusting the next content based on the student's current understanding and response process.
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SchoolAI announced its 2026–2027 product updates, extending the focus from individual teachers creating Spaces to unified district governance. Updates include district-level guardrails, school context, alert routing, Smart Groups, and a Class Mastery Score.
On July 16, Ofqual updated its approach to regulating AI in qualifications, continuing to prohibit AI as the sole scorer while allowing validated supporting and quality-assurance uses.
On July 15, SchoolAI changed its free plan, limiting free teachers to five Space sessions per year while retaining safety alerts, Chat with Dot, and most PowerUps.
On July 14, Anthropic launched Claude for Teachers. Verified US K–12 teachers receive free access to advanced Claude capabilities, a skills library for teaching tasks, and academic standards and learning-progression information from all 50 states through a connection to Learning Commons.
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A study of 122 U.S. districts and schools across 38 states found that 44.3% are at the 'conditional/teacher-directed' level, allowing AI only with explicit teacher authorization. Another 27.9% use 'guided integration,' 17.2% are restrictive, 7.4% explicitly prohibit AI, and just 3.3% actively encourage it. Nearly 30% still restrict or ban AI, and policies focus mainly on student behavior, with too little attention to staff use, procurement, and equity.
The University of South Florida announced a $1.5 million investment from ReliaQuest for its Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing. Of the total, $1 million endows the university's first named professorship, the ReliaQuest AI and Cybersecurity Professorship, while $500,000 continues the ReliaQuest Labs program and adds a software engineering track covering areas such as prompt engineering. More than 300 USF students have graduated from ReliaQuest Labs since 2018, with most taking jobs at ReliaQuest or other cybersecurity employers.
EdSurge reports that a Texas Tech University study found AI-related professional development for teachers may not be readily available in rural US schools. Another study comparing rural and urban elementary students found rural students scored statistically significantly lower in ICT access and literacy, resilience, and online learning capabilities. Last fall, Northern Arizona University led a collaborative effort to offer AI professional development in three rural Arizona school districts, with each district providing its superintendent, an instructional leader, and three classroom teachers for training over two and a half months.
An AI tutor team says it set out to build the first AI tutor teaching math and reading to children ages 4-9, and shared the architectural decisions behind it. The team notes frontier models take 2-3 seconds to first token and decode at about 30 tokens per second, so a standard tool loop creates 3-4 seconds of downtime between each sentence. It dropped the standard agent loop, built a custom harness that streams multiple actions in one response, and split the system into a converser and an asynchronous planner.
On July 9, the UK Department for Education updated its generative AI data-protection guidance for schools, requiring them to address risks involving personal data, bias, suppliers, and child protection.
In Q1 2026, China's learning tablet market sold 1.252 million units across all channels, down 1.0% year on year, with sales of 4 billion yuan, down 0.5%. During 618, online sales reached 360,000 units, down 18.2% year on year. BBK S10, Xueersi T6 and iFlytek T90 launched in close succession, while AI-enabled models rose from 31% to 67% of shipments. Xueersi hardware head Zhao Puzheng said overlap between tablet users and online course enrollees has clearly increased.
On July 8, OpenAI and the Walton Family Foundation announced K–12 AI Skills Jams across multiple regions, with the first round reaching more than 1,600 teachers, administrators, and district leaders.
South African AI startup HyperDev has raised more than $1 million (R16 million) in pre-seed funding from venture capital investors in Europe and the UK. The company says the funding will accelerate product development, with its user base approaching 100,000 less than three months after launch. HyperDev's Guided Mode helps users turn AI-generated code into deployable websites, mobile apps and software products, and the platform is already used across 14 countries, including edtech services.
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Fuzhou issued the 'Several Measures for the Development of the AI Industry in Fuzhou', supporting AI industry from nine aspects including model development and scenario application. Local enterprises released the Fortis W1 industrial robot and deployed applications in medical and logistics fields. Meanwhile, industry-education integration is promoted with the establishment of AI colleges and industry colleges to cultivate interdisciplinary talents.
China Daily reports that after registration opened in March 2026, AI courses at the Seniors University of Shanxi proved so popular that the school expanded enrollment twice, eventually accommodating 244 students across six classes. Students ranged from 50 to 80 years old. The curriculum focuses on practical daily applications, including large models such as Doubao and Qianwen, image and video generation tools such as Dreamina and Kling AI, and the health app Ant Afu. The school also slowed its teaching pace and added safety education on AI face-swapping, false health information and identity fraud.
On July 1, Yuanfudao officially launched AI Big Reading, aimed at primary school students in grades 2 to 6. The product was developed with the Children's Reading and Children's Book Evaluation Research Center of Beijing Normal University under a research project on AI-enabled personalized reading guidance for children, and uses an AI one-on-one Socratic companion reading model. It offers five levels, L2 to L6, with 12 physical books mailed home per level each year, and each book is covered in 8 sessions of 25 to 30 minutes.
TAL Education Group launched the standard, international, and Max editions of the T6 and introduced a new 'Peiyou AI Tutor.' Its official description places diagnosis from photos of homework or test papers, historical learning data, natural conversation, diagnostic reports, and dynamic learning plans in one flow.
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On June 29, South Korea's Ministry of Education began a pilot of an AI chatbot for college-admissions information, offering conversational queries to the public and connecting it to the existing online admissions-counseling service.
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On June 25, Google announced student-facing updates that will bring Gemini learning tools into Classroom school accounts for students of all ages, using teacher-provided curriculum materials to generate study guides and quizzes.
On June 25, Google announced teacher-facing updates that will let Classroom teachers assign AI activities including Guided Learning, Study Notebook, and NotebookLM.
In its 2026 back-to-school update, MagicSchool redesigned the teacher home page and made Raina a unified natural-language entry point. Teachers can begin with a goal to find tools without first knowing a specific template name.
On June 24, Microsoft announced a new set of AI capabilities for Microsoft 365 Education, covering unit plans in Teach, AI-use instructions in Assignments, the Study and Learn Agent, and Learning Zone.
On June 18, South Korea's Ministry of Education launched a program to train 10,000 AI lead teachers, redesigning the third year of its training system and offering staged courses through regional university alliances.
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On June 18, the European Commission and OECD released the AILit framework for primary and secondary AI literacy, setting out four interconnected domains and 19 competencies with examples for primary and secondary education.
On June 8, Acumen announced the acquisition of university-admissions technology company EduCorePro. The transaction value was not disclosed, and the founder will become CTO of the relevant business.
On May 25, Doubao Aixue launched the AI video course 'Doubao Classroom,' initially turning in-school content such as classical Chinese poetry and prose into immersive videos and supporting questions during viewing.
On May 20, OpenAI announced the next phase of Education for Countries, with Singapore joining the national partnerships and Jordan's Siraj reported to have served students and teachers at scale.
On May 20, the UAE Ministry of Education launched a national program to strengthen teachers' AI capabilities, offering eight self-paced modules and using an adaptive system to provide immediate feedback and contextual recommendations.
Khan Academy summarized about 20 Khanmigo product experiments conducted between October 2025 and April 2026. The organization says adding recent practice history and prerequisite skills not yet mastered to responses produced a combined 6.1% increase in the rate of independently answering the next question correctly.
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On May 14, StudyFetch launched Active AI Literacy, scoring each student prompt in real time on quality and responsibility and offering improvement suggestions before it is sent.
On May 13, Google launched the AI Educator Series with an initial set of more than 20 free micro-training modules for about six million K–12 and higher-education educators in the United States.
At the 2026 World Digital Education Conference on May 12, China announced upgrades to the National Smart Education Platform, adding entry points for international resources, lifelong learning, and Chinese-language learning.
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On May 12, the World Digital Education Alliance released two AI education standards, respectively specifying full-life-cycle requirements for AI application systems in education and infrastructure for AI-enabled smart campuses.
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On May 12, China released a reference framework for digital education ethics, setting out principles including human decision-making, complementary collaboration, context-sensitive application, and differentiated governance.
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Released on May 12, the Global Digital Education Development Index covers 82 countries and adds observations related to thinking skills in AI environments; a concurrent smart-education report focuses on AI's restructuring of education.
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On May 12, China's Ministry of Education announced that the first 18 university AI agents had joined the National Smart Education Platform for Higher Education, covering teaching support, multiple disciplines, and interdisciplinary programs.
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At the basic-education parallel session of the 2026 World Digital Education Conference on May 12, China released General Artificial Intelligence Education Textbooks and the 'Ten Lectures and One Hundred Questions on General Artificial Intelligence Education' course series. The textbooks comprise four volumes for lower primary, upper primary, middle school, and high school.
On May 7, Gaotu Smart Learning launched its 'Three-Teacher Live Customized Classroom,' where a lead teacher, learning coach, and AI teacher work together, supported by learning supervision, class communities, and weekly learning reports.
At a May 7 press conference, China's Ministry of Education reported that Zhejiang had established a general AI education system spanning primary, secondary, and higher education. Its information-technology and AI learning platform for primary and secondary education serves 520,000 students and teachers, while cumulative teacher AI training exceeds 800,000 attendances.
On April 28, Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology updated information on generative AI pilot schools, covering local boards of education and elementary and secondary schools while distinguishing instructional from administrative use.
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NYC Public Schools' AI Task Force released new AI guidelines for students, teachers, and families, requiring all AI tools to go through the ERMA privacy and security review process. The guidelines use a traffic light system: AI cannot be used for class placement, graduation, eligibility, or discipline decisions, cannot generate IEPs, confer grades, or provide emotional or therapeutic counsel, and AI surveillance and student data for AI training are banned. Students may currently use AI for research, exploration, and creative projects under educator oversight, but rules on personal chatbots and homework use remain undecided.
On April 23, South Korea's Ministry of Education announced 20 selected universities that will receive support to develop foundational AI courses for students in all majors.
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On April 21, the Guangzhou Municipal Education Bureau reported full coverage of general AI courses in grades 1–8, upgraded from clubs and school-based courses into required content in regular teaching plans. Grades 1–2 receive at least three class periods per semester, while grades 3–8 receive at least one class period every two weeks.
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On April 16, the UK government invited education-technology and AI companies to join a safe tutoring-tool project, planning to select up to eight companies for school testing beginning in the summer.
UNESCO launched the Observatory on Artificial Intelligence in Education for Latin America and the Caribbean on 14 April 2026 at ECLAC headquarters in Santiago, Chile, as a regional platform to support States in integrating AI into their education systems. The initiative is led by UNESCO with CAF, Chile's National Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Cetic.br, ECLAC, the Ceibal Foundation and other partners, and has an Advisory Council including the OECD, OEI and Harvard University experts. The source states that more than 50% of teachers in countries such as Chile and Brazil already use these tools, while fewer than 10% of institutions in the region have formal guidelines and sufficient capacities.
Gizmo announced a $22 million Series A on April 15, 2026, led by Shine Capital with participation from Ada Ventures, Seek Investments, GSV, and NFX. The platform has more than 13 million learners across over 120 countries. Funding will expand its engineering and AI teams, with a particular focus on growth in the U.S. university market.
On April 15, the Massachusetts government issued guidance for schools responding to deepfake incidents, requiring them to investigate AI-generated intimate images and videos involving students.
Implementation information published by the Beijing municipal government on April 10 confirms that more than 1,400 primary and secondary schools across the city continue to provide general AI education for at least eight hours per academic year, supported by a lecturer team, course resources, and experts.
On April 7, the Irish government announced an external advisory working group on AI in schools as an ongoing, multi-stakeholder governance mechanism to study AI's effects on teaching, learning, and assessment.
Information published by the Beijing municipal government on April 7 shows that Shunyi District released the Three-Year Action Plan for Improving AI Literacy in Primary and Secondary Schools (2026–2028) and the Implementation Plan for Advancing AI Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (2026–2028).
On April 2, Youdao added 'Baoku' to Youdao Translate. Users can import multiple files for exploration and evidence-backed Q&A, then generate presentations, mind maps, infographics, and podcasts.
In April, China's Ministry of Education, National Development and Reform Commission, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, and National Data Administration issued the 'AI + Education' Action Plan. The document proposes building a general AI education system covering all stages of education and society by 2030.
On April 1, India launched a computational-thinking and artificial-intelligence curriculum for grades 3–8, organizing learning through math games, puzzles, hands-on activities, and collaborative tasks.
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On March 31, China's Ministry of Education released a new version of the National Smart Education Platform, adding centers for lifelong learning, science and technology innovation, Chinese-language education, and education big data.
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On March 25, the Fuzhou Municipal Education Bureau released the Fuzhou General Artificial Intelligence Education Curriculum Guidelines and Implementation Guide for Primary and Secondary Schools (Pilot Edition), requiring implementation by education bureaus in each county, county-level city, or district and by provincial and municipal schools.
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On March 16, South Korea's Ministry of Education announced a training system for elementary and secondary AI subject teachers, organized into foundation, advanced, and professional stages, with plans to train about 3,000 people in 2026.
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Materials on Shanghai's experience released by China's Ministry of Education on March 13 confirm that all grade 4 and grade 7 students in Shanghai now take AI Foundations for one class period per week and at least 30 class periods in total per grade.
On March 12, South Korea's Ministry of Education announced the distribution through the National Institute of Special Education of AI and digital learning materials for students with developmental disabilities, covering Korean language and mathematics in designated grades.
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On March 12, the Sanya Municipal Education Bureau issued the Implementation Plan for Fully Offering General Artificial Intelligence Education Courses in Primary and Secondary Schools and Using Smart Education Platform Resources, covering district education authorities and municipally administered primary and secondary schools.
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On March 10, Quizlet announced its arrival in ChatGPT. Users can access Quizlet's learning content and capabilities in a conversation and continue organizing their learning from the chat interface.
On March 9, South Korea's Ministry of Education announced that 1,141 AI-focused schools had begun operating, with plans to expand to 1,500 in 2027 and 2,000 in 2028.
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On March 5, the European Commission released or updated four sets of digital-education guidelines for teachers, addressing AI and data ethics, generative AI and disinformation, digital-content quality, and informatics teaching.
On March 4, OpenAI announced a set of tools for measuring learning outcomes, disclosed early research on Study Mode, and said it planned to continue validation through randomized trials.
On March 3, Singapore's Ministry of Education announced AI literacy arrangements spanning all stages of education. Relevant content will enter the formal curriculum, co-curricular activities, and self-directed learning resources, while Code for Fun is planned to expand to all schools.
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The International Journal of Technology in Education published a systematic review in its 2026 volume 9, issue 2, examining ChatGPT, Duolingo, Grammarly, Wordtune and Pigai in ESL learning. Drawing on 19 peer-reviewed studies published between 2021 and 2025, it covers writing, speaking, listening, vocabulary, grammar and reading comprehension. The review reports that AI supports learner motivation, confidence and participation through personalized real-time feedback and adaptive learning, while noting over-reliance, limited contextual understanding, technological challenges and weak experimental designs. The authors recommend combining AI with teacher guidance, targeted training, expanded content for advanced learners and AI literacy in curricula.
On February 28, iFLYTEK launched the T90 Pro and T90 Lite learning tablets and introduced the lifelike virtual teacher 'Xiaoyue.' The T90 Pro can identify the causes of errors, explain with digital board work, and take questions from students during an explanation.
On February 25, Coursera released its first global report on AI in higher education, covering more than 4,200 students and teachers across five countries. More than 95% of respondents said they used AI in educational settings.
On February 19, Google launched AI-suggested feedback in Classroom. Gemini can draft personalized written guidance using a student's assignment, grade level, and focus areas specified by the teacher.
OpenAI announced partnerships with six public and private higher-education institutions in India on February 18, 2026, including IIT Delhi and IIM Ahmedabad, with a goal of reaching more than 100,000 students, faculty, and staff over the following year. The collaboration includes campus-wide access to ChatGPT Edu tools, faculty training, and frameworks for responsible use, with plans to work with education-technology platforms including Physics Wallah on AI courses.
On February 12, India launched the Bharat Bodhan AI platform and center of excellence, bringing together government, institutions, researchers, and educational AI solutions with evidence-based results.
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On February 6, Mindjoy updated its platform integrations by launching LTI 1.3 and adding support for LMS platforms including Canvas, Moodle, and Blackboard, plus roster sync with Google Classroom and Microsoft Teams.
On February 5–6, China's Ministry of Education held its 2026 national meeting on priority work in basic education and explicitly called for bringing AI into primary and secondary curriculum standards, daily teaching, and examinations and assessment.
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Quizlet's Q-Chat was discontinued in June 2025. A new conversational experience announced in 2026 lets students begin with natural-language questions, break concepts down step by step, and turn the results directly into flashcards.
On February 4, South Korea's Ministry of Education launched an initiative for AID Transformation-Focused Junior Colleges, planning to select about 24 project groups to build AI and digital-transformation environments.
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On January 30, the French Ministry of Education announced an expansion of the Pix AI learning pathway. The course opened to students on a voluntary basis in February and will become compulsory for designated middle-school, high-school, and CAP grades from autumn 2026.
On January 29, ETS Capital announced an investment in educational AI infrastructure company Memorang. The amount was not disclosed, and the funding will support research, development, and business expansion.
On January 21, Google announced that Workspace Studio was becoming available to Workspace for Education customers. Teachers and administrators can create, manage, and share automated AI agents without coding.
On January 21, Google launched an on-demand, full-length SAT practice test in Gemini, with questions reviewed by The Princeton Review. After completing it, students receive a score and areas for further practice.
On January 21, Google and Khan Academy announced a partnership to enhance Khan Academy's Writing Coach with Gemini models. The product is focused on guidance and feedback during the writing process.
On January 21, OpenAI launched Education for Countries, with initial partnerships involving Estonia, Greece, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Slovakia, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United Arab Emirates.
On January 21, Anthropic and Teach For All announced a global partnership covering more than 100,000 teachers and alumni across 63 countries and indirectly reaching about 1.5 million students.
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On January 19, the OECD released the 247-page Digital Education Outlook 2026. The report reviews research evidence on generative AI in education and discusses education-specific models, teacher capabilities, and government governance.
On January 19, the UK Department for Education updated its safety standards for generative AI products in education, targeting developers and buyers that serve schools, colleges, and children.
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A 2026 study in the Australian Journal of Teacher Education, based on reflections from six teacher educators, explores opportunities and challenges of generative AI in initial teacher education. It emphasizes pre-service teachers' need for technical proficiency and critical discernment, personalized assessment, and inclusivity for rural, remote, and First Nations communities, aligning with the Australian Framework for Generative AI in Schools.
In December 2025, the Expert Steering Committee for Teacher Workforce Development under China's Ministry of Education released the Guidelines for Teachers' Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Version 1), covering learning, teaching, student development, evaluation, administration, and research.
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In live K–12 mathematics tutoring, Tutor CoPilot suggests guiding questions, hints, and conceptual scaffolds to human tutors. A Stanford research summary reports that the randomized trial involved more than 700 tutors and more than 1,000 students.
On September 3, 2025, Midoo AI announced in Singapore the launch of what it calls the world's first AI language learning agent. The product uses Dynamic Generation technology to create vocabulary, dialogues and exercises in real time instead of relying on static courses or pre-written scripts. It also includes Dynamic Theater, an interactive environment that generates scenes, music and sound effects on demand, and tracks progress, mood, schedule and interests.
In August 2025, the Shandong Provincial Department of Education released 'Ten Actions' for AI education in primary and secondary schools. The document requires at least six class periods per academic year in grades 1–2 and at least eight in grades 3–9, while general high schools must make AI required content within information technology.
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Multiple US school districts are adopting AI tools to support neurodiverse students. Humble ISD in Texas uses AI tool Ucnlearn for dyslexia intervention, while Houston ISD partners with an AI company for personalized reading passages. A 2025 systematic review shows AI adaptive learning systems enhance accessibility and social-emotional development for students with autism, ADHD, and dyslexia.
In May 2025, the Basic Education Teaching Steering Committee under China's Ministry of Education released the Guidelines for General Artificial Intelligence Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (2025 Edition) and the Guidelines for the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence by Primary and Secondary School Students (2025 Edition). The former defines curriculum progression, while the latter governs generative AI use by students, teachers, schools, and education authorities.
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In May 2025, the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education released the Jiangsu Action Plan for AI-Empowered High-Quality Education Development (2025–2027), proposing that the province take the lead in expanding AI education across primary and secondary schools by 2027 and establish about 60 provincial AI experimental areas and schools in basic education.
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In 2025, Guangdong Province released curriculum guidelines for AI in primary and secondary schools. Grades 1–4 receive at least six class periods per academic year, grades 5–6 at least ten, grades 7–8 at least one every two weeks, and either grade 10 or 11 in high school at least one every two weeks.
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In March 2025, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission released the Beijing Work Plan for Advancing AI Education in Primary and Secondary Schools (2025–2027). Starting in the autumn 2025 semester, it requires all primary and secondary schools in the city to provide at least eight hours of general AI education per academic year.
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On January 24, 2025, UNESCO marked the International Day of Education at UN Headquarters in New York, themed 'AI and Education: Challenges and Opportunities'. Leaders including PGA Philémon Yang and Côte d'Ivoire's Education Minister Mariatou Koné discussed AI's potential to expand access and personalize learning, while stressing ethical risks and the role of teachers. Côte d'Ivoire is introducing AI into school curricula and conducting readiness assessments with UNESCO and over 20 African nations.
An empirical study published in the International Journal of Language Education (Vol. 9, No. 4, 2025) examined the impact of AI language learning tools on EFL students' oral reading fluency. Conducted in Jordan with 40 Grade 6 students randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group, the experimental group received instruction and assessment through the Reading Progress features embedded in Microsoft Teams, while the control group used traditional methods. The experimental group significantly outperformed the control group in reading fluency, and its participants expressed positive perceptions of the AI tool.
On November 20, 2024, OpenAI released a free online course intended to help K–12 teachers bring ChatGPT into classrooms. Developed with Common Sense Media, the one-hour course has nine modules and has been deployed in dozens of schools, including Arizona's Agua Fria district, California's San Bernardino district, and Challenger Schools. OpenAI's internal research says 98% of participants reported that the course provided a new idea or strategy they could apply at work.
On October 9, 2024, The AI Education Project (aiEDU) released its AI Readiness Framework, a way for students, teachers and school leaders to think about building AI Readiness in America's schools and to evaluate what being "AI Ready" means. The framework builds on dozens of stakeholder interviews, qualitative and quantitative research including extensive survey work with educators, and existing research and frameworks. It has three parts: student AI Literacy and Readiness competencies, educator competencies, and a District Readiness Rubric, and is free to download at aiedu.org.
On 7 September 2023, UNESCO published its first global guidance on generative AI in education and research, authored by Miao Fengchun and Wayne Holmes. The guidance proposes human-centred regulatory steps, including mandating data privacy protection and setting an age limit for independent conversations with generative AI platforms, along with a human-agent and age-appropriate approach to ethical validation and pedagogical design. It also discusses creative uses of generative AI in curriculum design, teaching, learning and research, and the long-term implications for education and research.
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