Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Their work spans the breadth of modern AI — robotics and embodied intelligence, large language models and...

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Do you think of tools such as OpenAI's Codex or Anthropic's Claude Code as developer tools, built only for writing software? Not the case. A recent project at SmarterX shows how these tools can be repurposed for one of the most common (and tedious) marketing tasks: making sense of messy data.

Conference demos often struggle with the same challenge: showing people what technology can do without asking them to sit through another product presentation. At SAS Innovate 2026, SAS partner Notilyze took a different approach. Rather than leading with a traditional demonstration, Notilyze showcased an interactive soccer game that encouraged attendees [...] The post How one SAS...

Fifty years later, Barry Merrill still remembers where it all started. In an interview, Merrill reflected on discovering SAS through a small notice in Datamation magazine. At the time, the software was new, largely unknown and available for $100. "North Carolina State University's statistics department announces the availability of the [...] The post What one of SAS' earliest customers...

Power BI Desktop Bridge (Preview) Power BI Desktop Bridge introduces a new way of working, allowing external applications and agents to interact directly with Power BI Desktop!   What is Power BI Desktop Bridge? The bridge is a lightweight local server that lets external applications interact directly with Power BI Desktop.   Think of it as a direct, secure channel between...

Anthropic has just released Claude Sonnet 5. Sonnet. Had to say it twice. It is the middle child of the Claude family, and the one most people will actually use. It is quick, capable, cheap to run, and free to use for all users without any subscription. In this article, we go over the latest […] The post Claude Sonnet 5: The Fable 5 at Home appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Announcing: AI StopWatch In our last update, we mentioned we had something new in the works: a dedicated channel for news and analysis about AI.  Subscribe to AI StopWatch  An experiment from the writers and analysts at MIRI, AI StopWatch posts news and commentary seven days a week. You can read our commentary as it’s […] The post MIRI Newsletter #126 appeared first on Machine...

The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), held annually for over forty years, is among the most influential conferences in modern AI research. This year in Seoul, ICML is hosting its second workshop on Technical AI Governance Research (TAIGR), and several members of MIRI’s Technical Governance Team (TGT) will attend in July. This post summarizes […] The post Summary:...