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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.
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.
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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.
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.
