The rise of social media turned human attention into a commodity. Now, the AI race is taking that to new heights.

Iowa women's basketball player Chit-Chat Wright will not be available for Saturday's game against Miami in Orlando, Fla. An Iowa spokesperson confirmed to Hawk Central that Wright will miss the ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Law enforcement experts and policymakers are due to meet on 12 September to decide on proposals to require technology companies, such as Signal and WhatsApp, to scan all encrypted messages and ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

The modern internet is ruled by algorithms. When you boot up Instagram, for example, what you see in your feed is strategically sorted by the app's AI based on your past activity to keep you engaged ...

In a new study published in Chemical Science, researchers at the University of Rochester have developed an algorithm that shows enormous potential for incorporating machine learning and artificial ...

Think about the last time you opened Netflix. Did you scroll through countless options or go with a recommended title? When you log into social media, do you decide what to see, or does an algorithm ...