Weekly AI News Update (29-04 September 2025)

Beijing has introduced AI education across all primary and secondary schools, requiring at least eight hours annually, following national guidelines to integrate AI into education and supported by digital resources and pilot programmes. CGTN
Melania Trump inaugurated a White House taskforce on artificial intelligence in childhood education, joined by US officials and tech CEOs, to advance the “Presidential AI Challenge” promoting AI integration in schools nationwide. The Guardian
Meituan has released its open-source large language model, LongCat-Flash-Chat, featuring 560 billion parameters and Mixture-of-Experts architecture, with benchmark performance comparable to leading Chinese and US AI models. South China Morning Post
A UNESCO survey of 400 higher education institutions across 90 countries found nearly two-thirds have or are developing AI guidance, highlighting widespread use, uneven confidence, ethical concerns, and growing institutional policy frameworks. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
A study of 359 Chinese university students established that AI literacy is a significant predictor of AI adoption intention, mediated by social influence, performance expectancy, and effort expectancy, while facilitating conditions were not a significant factor. Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications