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Berkeley Cybersecurity Master’s Alums Develop Award-Winning Tool to Detect Deepfakes and Disinformation
RealEyes.ai, by recent Master of Information and Cybersecurity alums John Olmos, Jonathan Weiss, Sannan Iqbal, and Vassilis Tzavaras is a…
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Student Representatives Advocate for Values of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice
The Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Justice (DEIBJ) student representatives program at the School of Information, now in its fifth year…
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UC Berkeley Research Scientist Breaks Down the TikTok Ban, the “Digital Divide,” and the Rise of RedNote
In a historic development, Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok has become the center of a bipartisan bill to ban the app nationwide in the…
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I School Professor Launches New Company Centered Around “Agentic AI”
UC Berkeley School of Information assistant professor Niloufar Salehi has partnered with University of Southern California professor Afshin Nikzad…
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Ph.D. Student & Team Awarded Grant To Implement an Early Warning System for Child Malnutrition Crises in Kenya
I School Ph.D. student Susana Constenla-Villoslada, Professor Joshua Blumenstock, and collaborators at Kenya’s National Drought Management…
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With the Help of AI, UC Berkeley Researchers Confirm Hollywood Is Getting More Diverse
A new study led by Professor David Bamman used facial recognition technology to track the amount of time actors appear on screen in more than 2,300…
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Don’t Worry. Study Shows You’re Likely a More Creative Writer Than ChatGPT. For Now.
UC Berkeley researcher Nina Beguš instructed both humans and AI tools to write a story based on one of two short prompts. She then compared the…
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White House Issues New Directive on AI and National Security
Professor Deirdre Mulligan explains the Biden-Harris Administration’s new National Security Memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence.
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UC Berkeley Alum Uses Data Science To Shape California’s Energy Future
Alan Jian offers one example of how Data Science Undergraduate Studies and School of Information’s Master of Information and Data Science program…
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Professor Deirdre Mulligan Returns From White House To Teach Next Generation of Public Interest Technologists 
After two years at the White House’s Office of Science Technology and Policy (OSTP), where she served as Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Policy…

Press coverage

Hany Farid Discusses Movie Magic and Deepfakes in the Chicago Tribune
After Google Adds a Small Veo Video Watermark, Hany Farid Gives His Opinion
Executive Fellow Merici Vinton Reflects on Musk Leaving the Government
Hany Farid Explains Why Video From Gaza Is Not AI-Generated
Hany Farid Writes Op-Ed in Cairo Review About Democracy in the Age of Deepfakes

Alumni News

MIMS Grad’s AgTech Project Earns $20K to Fund Big Idea
At 2025 Commencement, Speakers Call for Collective Action and Embrace Ambiguity
MIMS ’25 Alum Yvette Vargas Speaks on Her Experience with the Cybersecurity Clinic and Human Rights Center
MSCA Fellowship Brings Berkeley Researcher to TU Dublin for Pioneering AI Ethics Project
UC Berkeley Honors Alum Elaine Sedenberg with 2025 Mark Bingham Award