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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%.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
