UC Berkeley and NVIDIA Unveil Agentic Robotics as NASA Recruits
UC Berkeley Professor Ken Goldberg and NVIDIA unveiled 'agentic robotics' this week at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin,…
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No. 21 Wake Forest routs Cal 41-7 at Memorial Stadium
Quarterback Gio Lopez throws four touchdown passes to hand the Golden Bears a conference setback before Sunday's busy slate at Haas…
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UC Berkeley Opens On-Campus StreamU Twitch Broadcast Studio for Student-Athlete Content
Cal Athletics has partnered with StreamU, UnlimitedIRL, and Twitch to launch a professional on-campus broadcast studio helping Golden…
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Michael Pollan and Neuroscientist Christof Koch Explore Consciousness in UC Berkeley Forum
Cal Performances and UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics release conversation moderated by Shayla Love.
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UC Berkeley’s New Gateway Café Serves Cava-Style Mediterranean Bowls Ahead of Chain’s Bay Area Arrival
Located inside the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society building, campus eatery offers $17 build-your-own bowls as Cava…
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Berkeley researchers burned new scrolls to learn how to read ancient ones
UC Berkeley researchers made their own papyrus scrolls, burned them, and showed that lead in the ink makes the writing readable by…
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Civic life
State Agency Rates Oakland Unified at High Insolvency Risk
California’s Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team rated the Oakland Unified School District at high risk of financial…
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UC Berkeley, UCSF & Stanford Labs Test Psilocybin Replicability
Neuroscientists across five laboratories at UC Berkeley, UCSF, and Stanford University published a parallel four-year study in the…
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UC Berkeley In-State Cost Hits $54,674 as District 4 Candidates Debate
UC Berkeley listed an all-in 2026-27 estimated cost of $54,674 for new in-state students living on campus, while District 4 council…
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Alameda Flood Advisory Extended Through Oct. 31; UC Berkeley COSI Set
The National Weather Service has extended the Coastal Flood Advisory for Alameda through Saturday, October 31, at 6 p.m., with the…
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UC Faculty Petition Targets 25.5:1 Ratio as Cal’s Flores Wins ACC Nod
The UC Faculty Association—representing more than 14,000 Academic Senate faculty across all 10 University of California…
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Technology & AI
UC Berkeley Professors Propose Multilateral Governance Framework for Global Pause on Frontier AI
Interdisciplinary study recommends international hardware tracking and cryptographic compute verification to halt uncontrollable model…
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Schools
UC Berkeley Identifies $28 Million in Operational Budget Reductions Amid Rising Higher Education Costs
Campus leadership outlines administrative efficiencies, hiring pauses, and facility energy consolidations while safeguarding…
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Business
UC Berkeley CLTC Releases Formal Quantitative Risk Modeling Framework for Autonomous Frontier AI
Academic researchers and industry safety teams establish mathematical benchmarks to evaluate model containment, tool escape, and…
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Things to do
Robert Reich documentary opens, with Berkeley screenings this month
The film puts more than 100 Americans into recorded conversations about division and belonging. Berkeley showings start Sept.
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