Algorithms have taken on an almost mythical significance in the modern world. They determine what you see on social media and when browsing online, help form people’s belief systems, and impact the ...

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 ...

Eko Health, which has developed digital stethoscopes that use AI to detect different heart conditions, received clearance for an algorithm that can spot when hearts are pumping less than they should.

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In our increasingly digital lives, security depends on cryptography. Send a private message or pay a bill online, and you’re relying on ...

Despite how impressive AI like ChatGPT, Claude, and even Gemini might be, these large language models all have one big problem in common: they hallucinate a lot. This is a big problem in the AI world, ...

A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

T. Christian Miller, a reporter at ProPublica, explains how EviCore’s tool is manipulated to increase denials and cut costs. Some of the biggest health insurers in the country are turning to an ...

Love is mysterious. You feel it in your chest, your knees, your soul. Love will put you on budget airplanes across the world, ...

In four Michigan cities, a property management company called RealPage offers an algorithm to suggest rental prices to corporate landlords. It uses a sophisticated AI to crunch large troves of data ...