Blogs - Machine Learning
AMPLab – UC Berkeley
- Making cities safer: data collection for Vision Zero 2017-04-26A critical part of enabling cities to implement their Vision Zero policies – the goal of the current National Transportation … Continue reading →Shankari
- Data Hackathons Workshop: Early Career Funding Available 2016-09-01The West Big Data Innovation Hub (WBDIH) is excited to host a Data Hackathons: Lessons Learned and Best Practices Workshop … Continue reading →Meredith Lee
- CACM Article on Randomized Linear Algebra 2016-06-02Each month the Communications of the ACM publishes an invited “Review Article” paper chosen from across the field of Computer … Continue reading →Michael Mahoney
- Scientific Matrix Factorizations In Spark at Scale 2016-06-02The canonical example of matrix decompositions, the Principal Components Analysis (PCA), is ubiquitous, with applications in many scientific fields including neuroscience, … Continue reading →Alex Gittens
- Technical Preview of Apache Spark 2.0: Easier, Faster, and Smarter 2016-05-19This is a guest blog post originally published on the Databricks blog. For the past few months, we have … Continue reading →Reynold Xin
- AMPLab postdoc Julian Shun wins the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award 2016-05-11I am very pleased to announce that Julian Shun has been awarded the ACM’s doctoral dissertation award for his 2015 … Continue reading →Michael Mahoney
- Unexpected continuous location tracking/energy change in android? 2016-04-15So this is really weird, but I have found what seems to be unexpected continuous location tracking that is causing … Continue reading →Shankari
- Strata Keynote: “What’s Next for the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack” 2016-04-01The Strata+Hadoop World big data industry conference was held in San Jose this week and as usual, AMPLab and Berkeley were … Continue reading →Michael Franklin
- 40-Year Goodbye: A Last Lecture and Symposium 2016-03-29Hoping to start a new tradition, I’m giving a Last Lecture on Friday May 6, 2016 at 4PM, which is … Continue reading →Patterson
- What’s new in KeystoneML 2016-03-29At the AMPLab, we are constantly looking for ways to improve the performance and user experience of large scale advanced … Continue reading →sparks
OpenAI News
- Rakuten fixes issues twice as fast with Codex 2026-03-11Rakuten uses Codex, the coding agent from OpenAI, to ship software faster and safer, reducing MTTR 50%, automating CI/CD reviews, and delivering full-stack builds in weeks.
- Designing AI agents to resist prompt injection 2026-03-11How ChatGPT defends against prompt injection and social engineering by constraining risky actions and protecting sensitive data in agent workflows.
- From model to agent: Equipping the Responses API with a computer environment 2026-03-11How OpenAI built an agent runtime using the Responses API, shell tool, and hosted containers to run secure, scalable agents with files, tools, and state.
- Wayfair boosts catalog accuracy and support speed with OpenAI 2026-03-11Wayfair uses OpenAI models to improve ecommerce support and product catalog accuracy, automating ticket triage and enhancing millions of product attributes at scale.
- Improving instruction hierarchy in frontier LLMs 2026-03-10IH-Challenge trains models to prioritize trusted instructions, improving instruction hierarchy, safety steerability, and resistance to prompt injection attacks.
- New ways to learn math and science in ChatGPT 2026-03-10ChatGPT introduces interactive visual explanations for math and science, helping students explore formulas, variables, and concepts in real time.
- OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo 2026-03-09OpenAI is acquiring Promptfoo, an AI security platform that helps enterprises identify and remediate vulnerabilities in AI systems during development.
- Codex Security: now in research preview 2026-03-06Codex Security is an AI application security agent that analyzes project context to detect, validate, and patch complex vulnerabilities with higher confidence and less noise.
- How Descript enables multilingual video dubbing at scale 2026-03-06Descript uses OpenAI models to scale multilingual video dubbing, optimizing translations for both meaning and timing so dubbed speech sounds natural across languages.
- How Balyasny Asset Management built an AI research engine for investing 2026-03-06See how Balyasny built an AI research system with GPT-5.4, rigorous model evaluation, and agent workflows to transform investment analysis at scale.
- Introducing GPT-5.4 2026-03-05Introducing GPT-5.4, OpenAI’s most most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work, with state-of-the-art coding, computer use, tool search, and 1M-token context.
- Reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, and that’s good 2026-03-05OpenAI introduces CoT-Control and finds reasoning models struggle to control their chains of thought, reinforcing monitorability as an AI safety safeguard.
- GPT-5.4 Thinking System Card 2026-03-05
- Ensuring AI use in education leads to opportunity 2026-03-05OpenAI shares new tools, certifications, and measurement resources to help schools and universities close AI capability gaps and expand opportunity.
- Introducing ChatGPT for Excel and new financial data integrations 2026-03-05OpenAI introduces ChatGPT for Excel and new financial app integrations, powered by GPT-5.4 to accelerate modeling, research, and analysis in regulated environments.
- The five AI value models driving business reinvention 2026-03-05Five AI value models show how leaders can sequence AI from workforce fluency to process reinvention and build durable business advantage.
- Introducing the Adoption news channel 2026-03-05Practical insights and frameworks to turn AI progress into business advantage
- Extending single-minus amplitudes to gravitons 2026-03-04A new preprint extends single-minus amplitudes to gravitons, with GPT-5.2 Pro helping derive and verify nonzero graviton tree amplitudes in quantum gravity.
- How Axios uses AI to help deliver high-impact local journalism 2026-03-04Axios COO Allison Murphy explains how the company uses AI to support local reporters, streamline newsroom workflows, and deliver high-impact local journalism at scale.
- Understanding AI and learning outcomes 2026-03-04OpenAI introduces the Learning Outcomes Measurement Suite to assess AI’s impact on student learning across diverse educational environments over time.