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The University of Phoenix College of Doctoral Studies has published a new white paper titled "Bridging the Rural AI Skills Gap: Overcoming Informal...".
Read the original →Anudip Foundation, a nonprofit connecting skills education with pathways to employment for underserved youth, brought together friends, supporters and community leaders in Houston, Texas recently.
Read the original →Kitakata City in Fukushima Prefecture ran a poster contest with local elementary pupils to promote its specialty soy sauce. Online posts repeatedly disparaged winning works as made with generative AI, and the works' publication was halted.
Read the original →Kitakata City in Fukushima Prefecture stopped publishing winning entries from its soy sauce poster contest by October 16, after repeated claims that generative AI was used. The works had been posted with the children's names. No evidence of AI use has been made public.
Read the original →On October 31, Viettel and the IIG Vietnam education organization launched an international-standard artificial intelligence contest for high school students nationwide.
Read the original →In a U.S. survey, 39 percent of students say peers' AI use motivates their own.
Read the original →For South Korea's 2027 College Scholastic Ability Test, procedures for dealing with cheating via AI-equipped smart glasses will be introduced for the first time. Among teachers serving as exam supervisors, 82% say such glasses are hard to identify.
Read the original →Uravation's "Senior AI Guide", an introductory AI media site for people in their 60s and 70s, has passed 300 published articles. Opened in May 2026, it had 312 free articles as of October 23, about five months after launch.
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