January 20, 2026
11 things UC Berkeley AI experts are watching for in 2026
How will AI disrupt the labor market? What will deepfake videos mean for our understanding of truth? Are we in a bubble, and if so, will the bubble burst?
Media Mentions
December 15, 2025
The Economist: The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans
Dawn Song, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, says marketers may need to pitch not to people, but to “agent attention”.
December 12, 2025
WIRED: Coding Support with Sarah Chasins
UC Berkeley Computer Science Professor Sarah Chasins joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about coding. How did programmers code the first ever code? What remnants of the early World Wide Web still exist online? Can someone still learn programming if they hate math? How do…
August 28, 2025
Stuart Russell named to TIME100 AI 2025
EECS Professor Stuart Russell has been named to TIME100 AI 2025 list. A globally recognized leader in artificial intelligence, Russell is celebrated for his groundbreaking research and his role as a prominent voice in the field of AI safety.
August 11, 2025
Forbes: Why This Billionaire Berkeley Professor Won’t Leave The Classroom
“This computer science professor became a billionaire launching four startups out of his privately-funded research lab, including unicorns Databricks and Anyscale. But it’s never been just about business.”
August 7, 2025
Op-ed: Congress wants to cut the smartest investment taxpayers ever made
CS Professor Emeritus David Patterson highlights the critical need for increased research funding in a new op-ed published in The Hill, ahead of Congress’s vote on the NSF budget.
July 29, 2025
RISC-V’s Ascent Could Reshape The Global Compute Landscape
RISC-V was born in 2010 at UC Berkeley, designed as a clean-slate, royalty-free ISA optimized for modern workloads and extensibility. Its founding team—still active in steering the standard through RISC-V International (RVI)—envisioned an open hardware ecosystem that encouraged innovation across both academia and industry.
June 24, 2025
Fast Company: This Perplexity cofounder wants to help AI breakthroughs graduate from university labs
Andy Konwinski (CS Ph.D. 2012), with help from Google’s Jeff Dean and other AI luminaries, has launched a new institute to help turn promising academic AI breakthroughs into open-source tools, startups, and real-world products while fostering an “AI for good” research culture.
June 12, 2025
May the Best Bot Win
Started as student side project, Chatbot Arena is now the AI industry’s scoreboard—and a $100 million startup
