Chris Mattmann, UCLA’s chief data and artificial intelligence officer, spoke on CNN’s “The Story Is: With Elex Michaelson” about AI safety concerns — a hot topic — as King Charles hosted a summit Thursday with global tech leaders. “Since May 2026 of this year, Anthropic published a blog, and they said at that point 80% of the code that Anthropic was actually generating for Claude, its own AI chatbot, was being generated by Claude itself,” Mattmann said. Read more about UCLA in today’s AsAmNews, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and other outlets.

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More highlights from UCLA in the News: September 18, 2026

Rates rise to 3.75%–4.00%, and Latino homebuyers feel it first | The Latin Times 

The Latin Times reported that researchers at UCLA's Lewis Center have found that, at least in California, Black and Latino neighborhoods already carry car loan balances that run higher relative to income than the state average — a gap that a steeper federal funds rate tends to widen rather than close.

New evidence shows you’re only slightly hotter than a T. rex | NPR’s “All Things Considered”

UCLA's Tyrannosaurus rex study was mentioned in NPR's Short Wave science podcast: "And, Juana, there's another bonus fact about T. rexes out in a different journal this week, which looked at a T. rex tooth and determined T. rexes were probably the same temperature as us, 97 degrees Fahrenheit … Which is surprising because people tend to think dinosaurs were like today's reptiles, you know, cold-blooded, but this [UCLA study] shows they were actually warm-blooded and active." (Also: LAist, CBS LA and The Week US.)

Native Hawaiian women have highest breast cancer incidence | AsAmNews

The UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and the American Cancer Society co-authored research disaggregating cancer data for AANHPI communities. The research found that Native Hawaiian women, in addition to having the highest rates of breast cancer incidence, have a 27% higher breast cancer incidence than white women. (UCLA’s Dr. Kekoa Taparra was quoted.)