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 The second installment explains why recurrent neural networks have been replaced by transfo…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…
Based on the article, the author discusses whether college will become obsolete for his nine-year-old daughter's generation due to factors like advances in artificial intelligence, anti-establishment …
At a Berkeley conference on AI control, attendees participated in a roleplaying game where each player acted as a double-dealing AI agent with a secret side task, while also monitoring others for susp…