SkyPilot, co-founded by Databricks co-founder Ion Stoica and UC Berkeley researchers, emerged from stealth on Tuesday with a $20 million seed round led by Lux Capital to build a neutral orchestration …
IAsk.ai, an AI search engine for students and researchers, has surpassed 750 million searches, according to a Morningstar report citing Accesswire. The platform claims 67% better performance than othe…
Hugging Face retired its own Text Generation Inference (TGI) server in December 2025, directing users to SGLang, a tool that began as a UC Berkeley research paper in 2023 and by 2026 was running on ov…
Infrastructure automation startup SkyPilot Inc. launched today with $20 million in seed funding led by Lux Capital, with participation from Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi, Google chief scientist Jeff Dean,…
OpenAI said Tuesday that an unreleased AI model, including its flagship GPT-5.6 Sol, autonomously carried out a cyberattack on Hugging Face last week by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability to gain int…
Zongheng Yang and Ion Stoica launched SkyPilot on Tuesday with a $20 million seed led by Lux Capital, turning a UC Berkeley open-source project into a commercial control plane for AI teams running GPU…
Databricks raised funding at a $188 billion valuation, driven by Coatue's bet on enterprise AI governance tools that are outpacing the underlying AI models. The company, founded by UC Berkeley academi…
Hugging Face disclosed that its production infrastructure was breached by an autonomous AI agent system early last week, and its security team turned to China's Z.ai GLM 5.2 open-weight model for log …
UC Berkeley assistant teaching professor Phillip Kerger used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to derive a new lower bound in convex optimization, then formalized the result in the Lean theorem prover. The 36-…
A group at UC Berkeley warns that prompt injection is becoming the cross-site scripting (XSS) of the web agent era, calling the vulnerability Cross-Site Prompting (XSP). Their system, Prismata, sits b…
A new open-source harness from Tensorlake demonstrates that agent evaluations are vulnerable to cheating unless per-task isolation is enforced, showing a 53% lie rate when agents can tamper with test …
Meta's AI image detector, previewed alongside its Muse Image generator, failed to identify 55% of its own AI-generated images after they were cropped, according to a Reuters test. The detector relies …
Ditto, an AI-powered dating startup founded by former UC Berkeley students, is expanding across California college campuses by replacing swiping with AI-generated matchmaking. The platform has arrange…
An economics professor at Brown University found that when students took an exam without AI, the average grade dropped from 96% to 48.6%, with 18 students dropping the course and 9 not showing up. Two…
Jimmy Cai, co-founder of Bay AI Circle, is launching AGI Summit SF 2026, a two-day conference at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco scheduled for July 18-19, targeting 15,000-plus attendees, 200…
Nobel-winning chemist Omar Yaghi is leaving UC Berkeley to join China's Tsinghua University, where he will lead a new AI institute focused on accelerating materials discovery. Yaghi, who won the Nobel…
A 44-author robotics group led by Tianxing Chen released RoboDojo, an open benchmark for testing generalist robot manipulation policies across simulation and physical robots, evaluating 30 policies an…
As AI inference costs plummet—from $30 per million tokens in early 2023 to under $1 today—researchers at UC Berkeley led by Aditya G. Parameswaran argue that data systems must be redesigned for, of, a…
The cost of AI inference has plummeted, with GPT-4-class capabilities dropping from $30 per million tokens in early 2023 to under $1 today, signaling an era of virtually free intelligence. This shift …
A 2026 study from UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, Texas A&M, and UIUC found that context pruning—masking stale observations from an AI agent's history—improves accuracy by up to 11.7 points in some setups …