UCLA and UC Berkeley have staked their claims on social media after U.S. News and World Report’s global rankings placed Berkeley as the top U.S. public university. Technically, it ranked No. 6, behind five private campuses, including Harvard, MIT and Stanford. But being the top public university on the global list was enough for Berkeley.

The University of California, Berkeley unveiled its plans for the second half of its Innovation Zone, a two-building, 320,000-square-foot hub for life sciences research that will transform a city block west of campus.

UC Berkeley researchers say large language models have gained "metalinguistic ability," a hallmark of human language and cognition no other animal has displayed.