Foundation AI released Antares, a family of compact open-weight models (350M, 1B, and 3B) for agentic vulnerability localization, with the 3B model rivaling frontier systems like GPT-5.5 at a fraction…
OpenAI's first telemetry-based study, 'How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT,' analyzing 17 million messages from over 1,500 organizations, finds enterprise AI adoption is broad but shallow,…
Roman's Attic, a Substack publication, argues that aspiring AI safety professionals should focus on directed reading to resolve key uncertainties rather than reading broadly without a clear purpose. T…
A July 2026 paper (arXiv 2607.01935) identifies 'ghost memory' as a state coordination failure in agent memory systems, where old, current, and transition facts coexist and mislead the model, and repo…
A Berkeley team's experiments show that distilling a strong model's outputs into an open model transfers reasoning structure, not capability, with accuracy drops of 3.2-3.3 points when traces contain …
Elon Musk's 2016 claim that the odds of living in 'base reality' are 'one in billions' has evolved from a philosophical question into a description of modern technology, as generative AI between 2023 …
Attention Engineering co-founder Aidan Guo opened a local preview of Coast on July 28, pitching software that records desktop context on-device so users and AI agents can retrieve it later. Coast is d…
The AI boom is straining family dynamics, particularly in the Bay Area, where many men work in AI while their partners feel neglected and overwhelmed by the technology's dominance in their lives. One …
Researchers propose Uncertainty-Guided Cascade Forward Refinement (U-CFR), a new inference-time framework for interactive image segmentation that enables models to autonomously self-correct after each…
SkyPilot, a control plane that unifies fragmented AI compute into a single pool, emerged from stealth today. The open-source platform, which began as a PhD project at Berkeley, now manages over 10,000…
A month-long bike and train trip from Chicago to Berkeley, during which the traveler conducted street interviews with Americans about AI futures, reveals a public that is surprisingly willing to belie…
A content creator conducted street interviews across the US, finding that most Americans are unaware of AI advancements and have not used frontier models, yet they are directionally concerned about AI…
At least 22 professors and researchers from Stanford, Berkeley, and Harvard have left or taken leave in 2026 to join OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Meta, accelerating a brain drain from acade…
In 1926, Berkeley launched a major vehicle safety campaign, including a parade with wrecked cars and a morgue wagon, to educate motorists and pedestrians about new red stop signs. The city simultaneou…
Palantir CEO Alex Karp suffered a nearly 20-minute meltdown during a live CNBC interview, veering off-topic to rant about the AI financial bubble and his inability to get a faculty job at Berkeley. Th…
A long-time participant in AI safety, Rationalist, and Effective Altruist communities reflects on the tendency to opine about these massive communities as a whole, despite only knowing small corners o…
Senior engineers can now learn the internal architecture of large language models in a new five-part series. The second installment explains why recurrent neural networks have been replaced by transfo…
A group of Berkeley CS students built autonomous AI agents that replace chat interfaces with a system using task planning, sandboxed Python execution, SQLite storage, and email aggregation. The agents…
A critic argues that the AI industry's focus on existential risk is a hype-driven strategy to justify inflated valuations, contrasting technical progress at companies like Z.ai and comma.ai with alarm…
The Fay apartment tower in downtown San Jose opened two years ago with fewer than one parking spot for every three units, and the building now sits 60% vacant — a sign that California's 2022 law elimi…