TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

In just a few years, TikTok has gone from a niche lip-syncing app to one of the most powerful social media platforms in the world. From viral dance routines to comedic skits, food hacks, and global ...

WASHINGTON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced an agreement between the U.S. and China to keep TikTok operating in the United States, with three sources familiar with the ...

Google Tables, a work-tracking tool and competitor to the popular spreadsheet-database hybrid Airtable, is shutting down. In an email sent to Tables users this week, Google said the app will not be ...

Amsterdam’s struggles with its welfare fraud algorithm show us the stakes of deploying AI in situations that directly affect human lives. What Amsterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm taught me about fair ...

MIT researchers found that different algorithms can all be grouped into a ‘periodic table’ of AI. The idea for the table was an accident that emerged from identifying similarities between two ...

Researchers from MIT, Microsoft, and Google have introduced a “periodic table of machine learning” that stands to unify many different machine learning techniques using a single framework. Their ...

Picture an AI absorbing your late-night confession—unwavering, precise, attuned to every tremor in your voice. A year ago, I described artificial empathy as a "cold, polished surface reflecting our ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that are hard to comprehend, but an exciting new algorithm matters to anyone who ...