Media Mentions

January 14, 2025

Ken Goldberg featured on Armchair Expert

EECS Professor Ken Goldberg is featured as a guest on Armchair Expert. “Ken joins the Armchair Expert to discuss being born in Nigeria, growing up in rough and tumble City of Brotherly Love, and on how that taught him how to not take things lying down. Ken and Dax address…

Ben Recht (Simons Institute)

November 25, 2024

Election Forecasts Try to Go Beyond the Polls. Are They Helping?

UC Berkeley EECS Professor Benjamin Recht was recently featured in The New York Times for his critique of election forecasting models, emphasizing the complex decisions behind these predictions. His insights spotlight the intersection of statistical modeling and societal impact.

Assistant Prof. Sergey Levine (photo: NVIDIA)

November 4, 2024

Physical Intelligence, a Robot A.I. Specialist, Raises Millions From Bezos

Physical Intelligence, an artificial intelligence startup co-founded by EECS Associate Professor Sergey Levine, announced it had raised $400 million in financing from major investors. The company aims to develop foundational software designed to be compatible with any robot, moving away from the traditional method of creating software tailored to specific…

Hany Farid speaks on Photo Forensics, 9/6/17 (photo: jsherman@johnshermanphotography.com)

October 18, 2024

The Pipeline: How Russian propaganda reaches and influences the U.S.

Hany Farid, a professor of digital forensics at the University of California, Berkeley, identified evidence of AI manipulation in a handful of recent Storm-1516 videos, including one from July of a man posing as a luxury car salesman to falsely claim to have sold Zelenska a…

August 30, 2024

AI Safety…Ok Doomer: with Anca Dragan

Building safe and capable models is one of the greatest challenges of our time. Can we make AI work for everyone? How do we prevent existential threats? Why is alignment so important? Join Professor Hannah Fry as she delves into these critical questions with EECS Associate Professor Anca Dragan, lead…

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June 7, 2024

Opaque Launches New Platform For Running AI Workloads on Encrypted Data

“The Confidential AI platform was developed at the Berkeley RISELab, a world-renowned lab known for developing technologies such as Apache Spark and Databricks. It was at this lab where the breakthrough MC2 (Multiparty Collaboration and Competition) platform was created, incubated, and open-sourced. In 2021, this platform served as the foundation…