Abstract： Over the past years the multipurpose detectors of CMS and ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider have gathered an enormous amount of data. This data has been, and continues to be, meticulously analyzed to extract precision parameters that characterize the inner workings of the Standard Model, and also to probe for theories beyond that of the Standard Model. While to this day the discovery of new physics is eluding these experiments, there are a some interesting hints emerging from the LHCb, Belle and BaBar experiments. In this talk I will describe some of the new directions we are taking on the search for new physics at the LHC, and on some aspects of the technical upgrade of the CMS detector to extend the sensitivity of the data we will collect in the years to come.