{"id":30518,"date":"2025-10-03T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/?p=30518"},"modified":"2025-10-03T17:49:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T09:49:17","slug":"weekly-ai-news-update-36-02-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hkmu.edu.hk\/oetools\/news-events\/weekly-ai-news-update-36-02-october-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly AI News Update (26-02 October 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"30518\" class=\"elementor elementor-30518\" data-elementor-settings=\"[]\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-section-wrap\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"has_eae_slider wavo-column-gap-default elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4346d04 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4346d04\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;jet_parallax_layout_list&quot;:[]}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"has_eae_slider elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-e976a0d\" data-id=\"e976a0d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a2fa341 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"a2fa341\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li>Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, a frontier AI model with enhanced coding, reasoning, and alignment capabilities. Updates include Claude Code checkpoints, a VS Code extension, the Claude Agent SDK, and strengthened safety measures. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/news\/claude-sonnet-4-5\">Anthropic<\/a><\/li><li>UNESCO's Digital Learning Week hosted a workshop on AI in education, training policymakers in ethical design, data governance and project development, while emphasising purposeful application, teacher involvement and equitable data access. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unesco.org\/en\/articles\/ai-action-unesco-empowers-education-policymakers-harness-artificial-intelligence?hub=32618\">United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization<\/a><\/li><li>A recent report by Anthropic, based on 74,000 faculty conversations with its AI chatbot Claude, shows professors increasingly use generative AI for curriculum design (57%), research (13%), and administrative tasks. Surveyed faculty expressed concerns about AI's effectiveness in grading. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2025\/10\/02\/nx-s1-5550365\/college-professors-ai-classroom\">National Public Radio<\/a><\/li><li>Zhejiang University advances AI education with the 2025 \u201cAI+X 2.0\u201d micro-major, AI STEP initiative, national AI textbook base, DeepSeek courses, AI teaching assistants, and the upcoming \u201cQizhen Wenzhi\u201d competition. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/china\/2025\/09\/27\/414108\/fueling-hangzhous-global-ai-rise-zhejiang-university-leads-the-way-in-nurturing-ai-trailblazers\/\">Media OutReach Newswire<\/a><\/li><li>At the inaugural AI in Education at Oxford (AIEOU) conference, experts highlighted four principles for AI in education: pedagogy-driven design, learner-protective regulation, effective implementation, and equity-focused impact. <a href=\"https:\/\/corp.oup.com\/feature\/pioneering-conversations-on-ai-in-education-at-oxford\/\">Oxford University Press<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, a frontier AI model with enhanced coding, reasoning, and alignment capabilities. 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