Artificial intelligence continues to be the central force behind the upcoming productivity revolution. Yet in the US, foundational energy constraints threaten to stall progress. The primary obstacle ...

Most people think math lives in textbooks, not daily life. In reality, it shapes decisions about money, justice, healthcare, and opportunity. Algorithms predict behavior, allocate resources, and ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new arms race and the centerpiece of defense modernization efforts across multiple countries, including the United States. Yet, despite the surge in AI investments, ...

In every boardroom conversation about AI safety, there is a familiar belief that if we can just bolt on the right guardrails and keep improving red-teaming and reinforcement learning, we will ...

This study analyzes the spatiotemporal dynamics of cocoa cultivation areas across 25 Indonesian provinces from 1975 to 2023 using a Random Forest Clustering approach and t-SNE visualization. The ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his ...

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 ...

Last week, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi’s remarkably swift media rehabilitation, and the response surprised me. That column argued that modern media rewards spectacle over substance, but it also hinted ...

This isn't about "animal rights", this is about the rights of people to live lives with the companions they wish, and that includes pets. There is no rational reason to deny someone the right to have ...

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.