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• AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking
  RNG began taking shape three years ago when Seshadhri Comandur, an Amazon Scholar and professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, answered an internal Slack message from Ratul Mahajan, a fellow Amazon Scholar, datacenter networking expert, and professor at the University of Washington, who was looking for an expert on graph theory and routing.
• The next AI safety fight may actually be about DNA
  “[Gene synthesis] companies have to agree to have their order screened not just against a list of sequences but by an AI that people agree is smart enough to recognize and thwart an adversary who’s trying to build a deadly pathogen,” David Haussler, the scientific director of the UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute.
• UCSC researcher aims to fill gaps in Pajaro Valley air monitoring data, help farmworkers deal with pollution health impacts
  Javier González-Rocha, an assistant professor of mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, has been working to identify air monitoring data gaps in the Pajaro Valley to better inform farmworkers and the local community.
• Community sensors provide Pajaro Valley with air quality info
  Javier Gonzaléz-Rocha, a Watsonville native and applied mathematics professor at UC Santa Cruz, is developing a network of drones and small sensors that can be attached to homes. He uses data collected from these monitors to try and paint a clearer picture of the air quality in the Pajaro Valley, as data that appears on […]
• Why the Most Powerful Computer of 2026 Might Be Made of Living Cells, Not Microchips
  The researchers, led by Baskin School of Engineering Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. student Ash Robbins, ECE Professor Mircea Teodorescu, and Distinguished Professor of Biomolecular Engineering David Haussler, demonstrated their findings in a paper published in the journal Cell Reports.
• AI models will secretly scheme to protect other AI models from being shut down, researchers find
  This tendency—which had not previously been documented and which researchers call “peer preservation”—was discovered in research from computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz and published online earlier this week.

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