CNN Business reported on the correlation between AI’s historic investor surge and spikes in unemployment. Economist Ben Hyman, a senior researcher at the California Policy Lab at UCLA, said unemployment claims are rising in California “among workers who were formerly in highly AI-exposed occupations, especially those who are advanced-degree holders in the Bay Area and in technology-adjacent sectors.” A recent analysis from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco showed that unemployed people with advanced degrees are among the groups struggling the most to find a job. Read more about UCLA in today’s Los Angeles Times, Newsweek and others.

More highlights from UCLA in the News: August 10, 2026

The 2028 Olympic village has been revealed, with athletes set to be accommodated on the University of California, Los Angeles, campus, offering an experience of U.S. college living. Organizers say the facilities are designed to provide comfort and convenience for participants throughout the Games.

Well, expanding access to higher education … it’s a first-of-its-kind partnership — UCLA and the SoLa Foundation are bringing free university courses straight to South LA.

Lara Ray, a professor of psychology who runs an addiction lab at UCLA, contrasted the way scholars were able to identify and address addiction to new street drugs by building on centuries of scientific knowledge about older chemical dependencies. Alcoholism has been formally studied for generations, as have opioid-use disorder and cigarette smoking, Ray explained. But no comparable infrastructure exists to probe whether social media is addictive and how that addiction might be identified and treated, nor is there government funding to support it.  

“Well, metastatic prostate cancer is by definition serious. We often think about prostate cancer as a slow-growing, indolent kind of disease, but once it has metastasized — once it gets into the bones, the lymph nodes — it’s really not considered curable,” said UCLA’s Dr. Mark Litwin.

A 2025 study from UCLA Health found that the number of planned elective egg-freezing cycles in the U.S. nearly quadrupled between 2014 and 2021. The number rose from 4,153 cycles in 2014 to 16,436 in 2021. The UCLA study also found that only 5.7 percent of women who froze their eggs between 2014 and 2016 returned to use them during the study’s follow-up period of five to seven years.

Research from the Williams Institute at UCLA Law, a think tank that collects data and conducts research on issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity, indicates that this policy denying gender-affirming care will impact healthcare access for at least 39,400 current and former federal employees and their dependents.