China Axes 12,200 Degree Programs for AI as Courts Punish AI Hallucinations
Chinese higher-education institutions revoked or suspended 12,200 undergraduate degree programs between 2021 and 2025 while adding 10,200 new ones, Complete AI Training reported, citing Ministry of Education data, as the country redirects curriculum capacity toward software engineering, applied AI and robotics. The cuts concentrated in arts, humanities, foreign languages and management amid a graduate jobs market where youth unemployment exceeds 16 percent.
Courts are escalating penalties against lawyers who file AI-generated hallucinations, Complete AI Training reported, citing a Louisiana judge who fined an attorney $1,000 and ordered AI training after finding seven fabricated citations, and a Mississippi case in which four attorneys were fined $8,000 in total. Researcher Damien Charlotin has tracked 1,600 examples of AI hallucinations in court documents across 35 countries since April 2023, with the United States accounting for 1,116 of them.
Thailand's Electronic Transactions Development Agency unveiled a 2026 roadmap to strengthen AI governance, the Bangkok Post reported, built on developing a governance framework and driving adoption of practical toolkits, with a goal of certifying trainers and extending AI governance knowledge to more than 3,000 public sector personnel by 2027.
A GoHumanize study of 60 professional skills found that leadership, teamwork and emotional intelligence remain the hardest capabilities for AI to automate, according to Complete AI Training, which estimated that machines can automate only about 31 percent of the tasks typically performed by chief executives.
NZCity reported that the US government shut down Anthropic's latest Claude AI model, though the underlying details of the decision could not be retrieved from the source.
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