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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

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 reasoning, computer vision, generative modeling, AI safety, human-AI interaction, AI for science and healthcare, and much more. Alo

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Using Local Coding Agents

Ahead of AI published a tutorial on setting up a fully local coding agent using open-source harnesses and open-weight LLMs, describing how to pair a locally served model with a coding harness that reads files, makes edits, runs commands, and verifies changes.

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Import AI 462: Superpersuasion; self-sustaining AI; paths to ASI

A study across four experiments with 18,978 conversations found AI systems were reliably more persuasive than expert humans, including professional canvassers, and nearly 3x more effective at raising real-money donations to Save the Children. Constraining AI to human-length messages at human writing speeds eliminated its advantage over coached elite debaters.

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