UC Berkeley Law will bar most student use of generative AI in coursework and exams this summer, citing fabricated citations and faulty legal analysis. The policy keeps narrow exceptions for AI‑fluency training.

Theo Baker’s memoir shows how secret seminars, early VC money and campus rituals funnel Stanford freshmen into Silicon Valley power networks.

Kawasaki and Nvidia are reportedly lining up a San Jose robotics R&D hub to test medical and mobility robots with partners including Microsoft and Fujitsu.

Parag Agrawal’s Parallel launched Index, a dashboard that tracks AI agent use of web content and routes payments to publishers and creators.

Google's I/O keynote shifted Gemini into an "agentic" era, debuting Gemini Spark — a 24/7 AI agent — alongside faster models and a new AI video tool. Rollouts start with paid tiers and testers.

Analog Devices is reportedly close to buying Empower Semiconductor for about $1.5 billion to add power-delivery tech for AI data centers.

Blackstone and Google announced a $5 billion joint venture to sell Google TPUs as compute-as-a-service, targeting about 500MW of capacity by 2027. Benjamin Treynor Sloss will lead the new company and outlets say the buildout could scale much larger.

A May 12 federal complaint says Hisense and VIDAA snapshot screens every half‑second, build cross‑device profiles and share them with ad‑tech and Chinese affiliates.

Top AI researchers say limited access to TPUs and server time at Google pushed them to found startups that can buy or control compute. The shift is reshaping Bay Area AI.

OpenAI quietly acquired voice‑cloning startup Weights.gg, took its Replay app offline and removed a public catalog of celebrity and political voice models. The tiny team has been folded into OpenAI’s voice work.

A UC Berkeley working paper ties a post‑ChatGPT surge in A grades to students’ use of generative AI. Campuses are redesigning exams and reinstating proctoring to protect degree value.

OpenAI is weighing legal steps against Apple after reporting says its ChatGPT tie‑in with Siri hasn’t delivered as promised.

A PLOS ONE study traced a 2020 apartment outbreak to shared bathroom ducts and urges retrofits — exhaust fans and non‑return flaps — to reduce airborne spread.