Over the last two years, a series of updates to Google Search amount to a dramatic upheaval to the Internet's most powerful tool, complete with an unprecedented AI feature. Will Google save the web, ...

China’s powerful cyberspace regulator has taken the first step in a pioneering—and uncertain—government effort to rein in the automated systems that shape the internet. Earlier this month, the ...

Chinese tech giants – including Alibaba Group Holding, ByteDance and Tencent Holdings – have submitted information on the algorithms of some of their most popular apps, the country’s top internet ...

We all know that ants are amazing biological creations, but it was only recently that researchers discovered that a certain breed of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) behave in a way that is not ...

Chinese social media platforms, websites and apps that use algorithms powered by artificial intelligence to recommend or suggest content to their users must ensure the technology steers people towards ...

When I open up Threads, I often come across two-day old posts from strangers, which the app shows me because the people I follow replied to them yesterday. It’s not exactly ideal. Having an ...

Paul Mescal said that he has to "quit the internet." In the latest episode of "Happy Sad Confused," Mescal said his algorithm has "too much" of him. Mescal rose to fame after his role in the 2020 ...

In 1973, the writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated an adage meant to capture the relationships humans were building with their machines: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from ...