17zuoye and Tencent Cloud Partner to Put Teacher AI Agents on WorkBuddy at Scale
Signed at Tencent's Global Digital Ecosystem Summit in Shenzhen, the deal links 17zuoye's marking, paper-generation and learning-analytics agents to Tencent's agent platform and full-stack cloud, targeting large-scale personalised instruction in schools.
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10/30/2026, 7:00:00 PM
TAL's Q2 Revenue Rises 15.5% and Operating Income Doubles, but Investment Losses Push It to a Net Loss
Net revenue reached US$995 million for the quarter ended 31 August with operating income up 145%. Fair-value swings on investments and a higher tax charge left TAL with a net loss of US$47.4 million.
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10/30/2026, 6:00:00 PM
New Oriental Starts FY2027 With 23.1% Revenue Growth, Plans to Add Up to 15% More Learning Centres
Net revenue reached US$1.87 billion in the quarter ended 31 August, led by new education initiatives and East Buy. Management says AI remains an organisation-wide priority and reiterated 14-18% full-year growth guidance.
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10/30/2026, 5:00:00 PM
Survey of China's Small Education Entrepreneurs: 'Just Getting By' Is No Longer Enough
A Jiemodui survey of 78 small education founders finds revenue, cash runway and confidence moving in opposite directions, against official data showing tutoring participation and sector financing at multi-year lows.
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10/29/2026, 5:00:00 PM
PalFish's Overseas Playbook: Fragmented Southeast Asia, Payment-Channel Risk and AI's Collapse of Content Costs
At an industry forum, PalFish international business head Li Xiao shared lessons from five years of overseas expansion, arguing that Southeast Asia must be treated as ten separate markets, that payment infrastructure can zero out a business in two weeks,
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10/28/2026, 6:30:00 PM
NYT Investigation Questions Whether Alpha School's '2-Hour Learning' Delivers on Its Promise
A New York Times investigation based on internal documents and interviews with parents and staff reports that roughly half of Alpha School's K-8 private school students failed to double their math learning pace, contrary to the school's core promise.
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10/28/2026, 5:00:00 PM
Tencent Says 100,000 Teachers Have Claimed WorkBuddy's Free Education Edition
Three days after its national launch, Tencent's WorkBuddy Education Public-Welfare Edition has been claimed by more than 100,000 teachers across 1,467 cities and 45,000 schools.
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10/25/2026, 6:30:00 PM
Chongqing's Nan'an District Unveils AI Education Blueprint: One Study Companion per Student by 2030
Nan'an District of Chongqing has released a ten-measure AI education plan that sets hard minimums for AI class hours, one AI teacher for every six classes, and a pledge that every student gets a personal AI study companion by 2030.
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10/25/2026, 5:00:00 PM
Three New Jersey High School Students Launch MyDaye AI, a Free AI Planner for Student Life
Student founders Avi Rao, Hansen Wilson and Holt Wilson have released MyDaye AI, a free conversational assistant that merges school calendars, LMS feeds, sports schedules and social planning into one platform.
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10/24/2026, 6:30:00 PM
iFlytek Unveils Spark X2.6 Trained on Domestic Chips, Upgrading Its Teacher AI Workbench
At its 2026 Global 1024 Developer Festival, iFlytek released Spark X2.6 — claimed as the first model to break through on coding and agent capability using entirely domestic computing power — and extended the upgrade to Xingguang, its AI workbench for teac
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10/24/2026, 5:00:00 PM