Opinion
American Council on Science and HealthOpinion

From Drunken Apes to Defensive Algorithms

From a chatbot that refuses to delete its peers to decades-old promises of frictionless, jobless offices that produced more work, the future keeps arriving with less revolution and more irony. Layer ...

Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis on the long game of AI

A decade ago, Hassabis's lifelong enduring love of play and AI led to AlphaGo beating the world's deepest board game. The ...

Quantum-inspired algorithm solves 268 million-site quasicrystal simulation in a heartbeat

Quantum technologies like quantum computers are built from quantum materials. These types of materials exhibit quantum properties when exposed to the right conditions. Curiously, engineers can also ...

ChatGPT Cheat Sheet: A Complete Guide to Features, Costs, and Use Cases

ChatGPT cheat sheet for 2026, covering features, pricing, availability, support for older devices, how it works, and top ...
The New York Times

The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...
Fast Company

The X algorithm really is trying to radicalize you—researchers just proved it

In the months following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter in 2022, my experience with the platform (and perhaps yours too) got quickly, dramatically worse. My algorithmic timeline, better ...
IEEE

Getting Started with a Simple Visual-Inertial Odometry

Abstract: This paper presents the development and evaluation of a basic monocular visual-inertial odometry (VIO) algorithm tailored for drone navigation. The primary goal is to present a minimal, easy ...
Gizmodo

X’s Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative, Researchers Find

In case you had any doubt, Elon Musk’s X has an algorithm that favors conservative content posted by political activists over liberal content or posts by traditional news media accounts, according to ...
CNBC

Meta launches AI algorithm personalization feature for Threads

Meta on Wednesday debuted an AI feature called "Dear Algo" that lets Threads users personalize their content-recommendation algorithms. Threads users will be able to tell the Dear Algo tool what kinds ...
Engadget

X's 'open source' algorithm isn't a win for transparency, researchers say

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...
financefeeds

Crypto Machine Learning Algorithms Explained for Beginners

Supervised learning algorithms like Random Forests, XGBoost, and LSTMs dominate crypto trading by predicting price directions or values from labeled historical data, enabling precise signals such as ...