This is all stuff I care about, but none of it was explicitly about me until two weeks ago, when I found out an AI company was selling a product with my name on it. The San Franci ...

In April 2024, Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO and a current AI evangelist, gave a closed-door lecture to a group of Stanford students. If these young people hoped to be Silicon Valley ...

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Chris ‘moot’ Poole tells The Verge he regrets having ever encountered Jeffrey Epstein. Chris ‘moot’ Poole tells The Verge he regrets having ever encountered Jeffrey Epstein. is a senior editor ...

X is revamping the algorithm that ranks posts in the "For You" feed. The engineering team said it will post changes to the algorithm on GitHub every four weeks, including explainers on changes. The ...

Noah Giansiracusa is professor of mathematics at Bentley University, faculty associate at Harvard University, and author of “Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life.” For ...

The internet’s darkest corners hide stories that will make your skin crawl. From mysterious bunkers filled with bones to a man who proudly shared his horrific crime online, these are the threads that ...

As price-setting by computer algorithm becomes increasingly prevalent, states are stepping in to address transparency and fairness concerns that federal legislation has yet to comprehensively tackle.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Google claims to have developed a quantum computer algorithm that is 13,000 times faster than the most powerful supercomputers. This would bring the technology another step closer to real-world ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Lily Allen has a number of choice phrases to describe the not-so-mysterious ex at the heart of her new album, West End Girl (“sex addict,” “little boy,” “fucking broken”), but none as confusing as ...