January 17, 2025

Ion Stoica featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast

EECS Professor and Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica is featured on Sequoia Capital’s Training Data podcast.

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…

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…

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…

October 9, 2024

Faculty in computational biology and neuroscience win notable NIH award

EECS Assistant Professor Preeya Khana is one of two UC Berkeley computational biology and neuroscience scholars who received the New Innovator Award from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the agency announced.

October 3, 2024

Watch a UC Berkeley digital forensics expert break down political deepfakes

Every day someone asks Hany Farid, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science and in the School of Information, to review images, audio and videos to determine if they are real or fake. As one of the world’s…

September 26, 2024

AI hardware hub awarded $16.3M from DOD

Three projects in the California-Pacific-Northwest AI Hardware Hub (NW-AI-Hub) aimed at dramatically improving the energy efficiency of artificial intelligence hardware are getting a $16.3 million boost from the Department of Defense.

September 24, 2024

Letta, one of UC Berkeley’s most anticipated AI startups, has just come out of stealth

“Founded by Berkeley PhD students Sarah Wooders and Charles Packer, this is a highly anticipated AI startup launch. That’s because it’s a child of Berkeley’s Sky Computing Lab and is the commercial entity of the popular MemGPT open source project.”

September 23, 2024

Three CS graduate students honored as Siebel Scholars

Three CS grad students have been named Siebel Scholars for the class of 2025, each receiving a $35,000 grant for their research. Cade Gordon, Jessica Lin, and Oliver Yu were recognized for their academic excellence and leadership.  Their work spans areas such as protein…

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…