A professor who helped write UC Berkeley's strict new AI policy says it's about preserving 'the value add of a lawyer'

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Students walk past UC Berkeley's former Boalt Hall in Berkeley, California.
The University of California, Berkeley Law School is implementing a stricter AI policy.

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I started building apps in high school. A cold email to a Stanford professor changed my life.

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Adrit Rao at the University of California, Berkeley, where he's a freshman.

Adrit Rao

Leading computer science professor says 'everybody' is struggling to get jobs: 'Something is happening in the industry'

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Hany Farid, a professor of a professor at the University of California, studies a computer clip in 2019
UC Berkeley professor Hany Farid (seen here in 2019)

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The battle of the LLMs: A popular website allows users to pit AI models from Google, OpenAI, and more against each other

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LMArena cofounders Wei-Lin Chiang and Anastasios Angelopoulos
LMArena cofounders Wei-Lin Chiang and Anastasios Angelopoulos

LMArena

These tech investors are trawling UC Berkeley to fund the next Perplexity or Databricks

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A man looking relaxed poses for a photo on brick steps.
Zachary Hargreaves has joined The House Fund from Founders Fund.

The House Fund

With AI writing so much code, should you still study computer science? This new data point provides an answer.

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John DeNero, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Lilt and Computer Science Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley
John DeNero, Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Lilt and Computer Science Teaching Professor at UC Berkeley

Lilt

Many drivers for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are earning well below minimum wage, even with tips, a new paper finds

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Uber and Lyft drivers were found to make less than minimum wage in five major metro areas.

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UC Berkeley is using a wall of shipping containers to block activists from the new site of its student housing complex

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UC Berkeley and other authorities continue to clear People's Park and place giant shipping containers and stack them by twos to barricade the park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA.
UC Berkeley and other authorities continue to clear People's Park and place giant shipping containers and stack them by twos to barricade the park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA.

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UC Berkeley academic offered her students extra credit for going to pro-Palestinian protests and lobbying Congress about Gaza

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A student protest about the war in Israel/Gaza takes place at the University of California, Berkeley's Sather Gate
A student protest about the war in Israel/Gaza takes place at the University of California, Berkeley's Sather Gate on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.

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A Berkeley law professor is telling law firms not to hire his antisemitic students

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University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.

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