From autonomous cars to video games, reinforcement learning (machine learning through interaction with environments) can have ...

Instagram is one of Australia's most popular social media platforms. Almost two in three Aussies have an account.

Data-driven AI systems increasingly influence our choices, raising concerns about autonomy, fairness, and accountability. Achieving algorithmic autonomy requires new infrastructures, motivation ...

Artificial intelligence is moving quickly into mainstream medical devices, and the industry has become fluent in a familiar set of concerns: bias, transparency, and cybersecurity. These topics matter, ...

Supervised learning algorithms like Random Forests, XGBoost, and LSTMs dominate crypto trading by predicting price directions ...

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla ...

Meta is giving Instagram users a rare glimpse into why certain posts are showing up on their Reels, the platform’s feed of algorithmically curated videos. Starting today, users will now see a list of ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

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.

After a month, more than three-quarters of the users who had typically spent roughly 30 minutes per day on TikTok were now spending nearly twice that much time on the app, on average. A few months ...

More than 800 U.S. TikTok users shared their data with The Washington Post. We used it to find out why some people become power users, spending hours per day scrolling. Each circle in the chart ...