Melania Trump champions AI in the classroom during North Carolina school visit

The visit lands in a heated national debate over regulating AI. Prominent tech leaders are warning about the technology's dangers and calling for more oversight. President Donald Trump, a day earlier, dismissed calls for more limits as a "hoax." Many parents have also raised alarm about schools giving young children tablets with access to sites like YouTube. Education technology has become one of the first lady's main policy interests, alongside foster youth support and the Take It Down Act. The Helene connection: She opened by marking two years since Hurricane Helene. The storm kept students out of school for more than 30 days and turned Mountain View into a distribution centre after its neighbourhood flooded.

Watch for the rollout of the StudyFetch and Jetson kit programme in Ashe County, and whether Be Best expands similar AI partnerships to other districts as the regulation debate continues in Washington.