Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to lead a new artificial-intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, citing cuts to …
Jaiveer Singh, a robotics software engineer at NVIDIA, leads the team behind Isaac ROS, an open-source framework that accelerates development of autonomous robots using CUDA-accelerated libraries and …
New research shows that ChatGPT has caused a 30% jump in top university grades since 2022, with at least one in 10 assignments now AI-assisted. The increase is concentrated in writing and programming …
Researchers at UC Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Tel Aviv University developed ConlangCrafter, an AI model that generates novel constructed languages with consistent rules. The model can cr…
Researchers from Microsoft Research, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and Columbia University developed generative causal testing (GCT), a method that distills black-box brain-prediction models into tes…
California has included AI-generated predictions from Anthropic's Claude chatbot in its contribution to the America 250 time capsule, which will be buried in Philadelphia on July 4, 2026. The predicti…
UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer…
State Sen. Aisha Wahab leads BART Board President Melissa Hernandez in the race to replace disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell in California's Congressional District 14, with Wahab taking nearly 43% o…
Digital forensics expert Hany Farid warns that the average person cannot distinguish AI-generated deepfakes from real content, as generative AI has made manipulation effortless and visually indistingu…
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley demonstrated software that enables robots to learn physical, dexterous tasks autonomously through trial-and-error using reinforcement learning. Th…
NVIDIA GEAR lab researchers developed ENPIRE, an agent harness framework that enables AI coding agents to autonomously train robots to perform tasks like cutting zip-ties and installing GPUs. The syst…
One-third of American teens report being victimized by deepfake nude images, and over half admit to creating AI-generated pornography themselves, according to a George Mason University survey. Researc…
LG Energy Solution held its Battery Tech Conference in Chicago to recruit top global research talent in next-generation battery technologies, energy storage systems, and artificial intelligence. CEO K…
Humanities professors at the University of California, Berkeley are assigning fewer pages, replacing full books with excerpts and rethinking coursework as students increasingly struggle to keep up wit…
In the late 1970s, physicist Richard Feynman scribbled a mathematical solution to help a friend decide whether to order a familiar dish or try something new at a Thai restaurant. Berkeley computationa…
Chinese startup Spirit AI has topped the RoboArena leaderboard with a score of 1,924, surpassing Nvidia's Cosmos3-Nano-Policy at 1,881 in a benchmark Nvidia co-developed with Stanford and UC Berkeley.…
Humanoid robots performing acrobatic feats and household chores in viral videos do not prove they can reliably repeat those tasks in real-world conditions, robotics researchers said. The human tendenc…
More than 35% of University of California, Berkeley students failed an entry-level computer science course this spring, a sharp increase from the typical 7% failure rate. Professors attributed the spi…
Graduates at three college commencement ceremonies this month loudly booed invited speakers who praised AI, while students on at least five campuses have formed anti-AI groups to advocate for slowing …
Steve Wozniak, cofounder of Apple, stated that his motivation for starting the company was not to make money but to gain the admiration of fellow engineers by bringing his personal computer idea to li…