Professor at @UChicago Eman Abdelhadi who’s also Abdul El-Sayed’s sister: “F*** the University of Chicago... but where can I build power? I have access to thousands of people I can organize... This is where I need to build power.”

It was great catching up with our latest class of @UChicago Obama Foundation Scholars. They’ve been working hard to improve their communities, and I’m looking forward to following their journeys.

It was great meeting our newest class of @ObamaFoundation Scholars at @UChicago. Young leaders like them are the source of my hope, and I believe they will power a brighter future for all of us.

Applications are open for the 2026 Rising Stars in Data Science workshop — hosted at @UChicago in collaboration with @Harvard, @HDSIUCSD, and @StanfordHAI. Join a virtual info session on July 23 to find out if it's the right fit. Applications due August 3. Register here:

Meet MI Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed’s sister This is what she thinks of the U.S. She’s also a professor at @UChicago. Why is @UChicago employing this radical lunatic who wants America to burn?

⏰ Last chance: Applications for the 2026 Rising Stars in Data Science workshop close August 3 at 11:59pm CT. The two-day workshop at @UChicago brings together data science graduate students and postdocs at a critical point in their academic careers — in collaboration with @Harvard, @HDSIUCSD, and Stanford HAI:

Visiting Lilydale First Baptist Church took me back to my time as a community organizer. This is the neighborhood where I began my career in public service.  It was even more special to celebrate the graduation of our @Columbia and @UChicago Obama Scholars—a smart and passionate group of young people who are picking up the baton and working to create sustainable change.

“The Midwest actually has this superpower: talent.” Chicago combines world-class universities, deep technical talent, and direct access to enterprise customers. That creates a powerful environment for turning research into startups, and startups into scalable companies. Full Innovation at University Communities recap below👇 00:00 Welcome and Introduction to University Innovation in Chicago 01:46 Panelist Introductions: UChicago Polsky & Northwestern 03:52 The Chicago Advantage: Talent, Diverse Economy 06:54 UChicago Polsky's Anchor Role in Chicago's Deep Tech Ecosystem 09:14 Northwestern's Programs for Driving Real-World Technology Adoption 11:42 Midwest Universities Unite 14:42 Engaging with Chicago's University Ecosystem: A Call to Action #Web3ID# #WEB3ID26#

"The Age of Autonomous Systems" isn't a forecast. It's the stack being built right now: agents that act, transact, and get things done on your behalf. The premise underneath all of it is a trust layer, which is exactly what Kite is building. We are pleased to share that our Co-Founder & CEO @ChiZhangData will speak in the Tech Track at GTLC 2026 Bay Area Chinese Tech Leaders Summit, hosted by TGO Silicon Valley. She shares the stage with founders and researchers including: ▷ Yuandong Tian (@tydsh), Founder of Recursive Superintelligence, the $4.65B self-improving AI lab. Former Research Director at Meta FAIR, and earlier on Google X's self-driving car team (now Waymo). ▷ Yangqing Jia (@jiayq), creator of Caffe and Co-Founder & CEO of Lepton AI (acquired by NVIDIA). Former VP at NVIDIA, VP at Alibaba Group, and AI Director at Facebook. ▷ Junchen Jiang (@JunchenJiang), CEO of Tensormesh and Professor at UChicago, co-creator of the open-source LMCache. ▷ Bo Li, Co-Founder & CEO of Virtue AI and Professor at UIUC, a leading scholar in AI safety and trustworthy ML (IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, Sloan Fellow). ▷ Ryan Hanrui Wang, SVP Applied AI at Nebius and former Co-Founder & CEO of Eigen AI (acquired by Nebius for $643M), out of MIT's HAN Lab. ▷ Ding Zhao, Professor at CMU and director of the Safe AI Lab, focused on trustworthy and safe AI. ▷ Weiyan Shi (@shi_weiyan), Professor at Northeastern and AI2050 Fellow, who built the negotiation agent behind Meta's CICERO. 📅 July 17, 2026 · Tech Track 2:00 PM 📍 Q Bay Center, San Jose If you're in the Bay Area, come find us. 🪁 🔗