A recent article reports that an Oracle patent on a fast sorting method has expired, allowing open source databases to use it freely. Mark Callaghan, the inventor behind the sorting algorithm, shows ...

Vitalik Buterin questions whether Elon Musk’s plan to open-source X’s algorithm will deliver real, verifiable transparency for users.

Earlier on the same day Musk said the algorithm sucked, X head of product Nikita Bier seemed to indicate that he was proud of ...

Social media algorithms may decide what life stage you slot into, and it's difficult to break out of it.

Why political conversations feel impossible, how psychology and platform design shape what we believe, and what can be done about it.

AI will serve humanity only if we endow our creations with moral restraint rather than mathematical optimization.

What it could mean to insert advertising into a 1-to-1 relationship. Imagine you’re talking to someone and they suddenly start to add advertising to the exchange. What might that look like? In a 1965 ...

While we’re still waiting to find out how Brett Ratner’s new documentary Melania will do in its debut weekend at the box office—having been propelled there by a suspiciously massive marketing push ...

Oliver Schusser explains how a flood of AI songs helped lead to a new policy crack down and spells out why Roc Nation faces ...

It's no surprise that things break, but what is a surprise is that things — from ceramic plates to bubbles — all follow the ...

Claire Munch says she was hospitalised with an eating disorder after a telehealth provider approved weight-loss drugs her GP had refused — and that even after she complained, she was later sent ...