Artificial intelligence is becoming increasingly present in the business world, with more shoppers using the tech to navigate purchases. But what does this mean for the future of commerce? Greater ...

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

THEIR BUMPER JOHN. YEAH, SHE SURE DID. AND THIS IS A VERY BUSY INTERSECTION. SHE WAS STOPPED AT A RED LIGHT. SHE HAD NO IDEA THAT THAT FRONT END LOADER WAS BARRELING DOWN THE HILL HERE. I DIDN’T ...

Social media has birthed an entire lexicon replicated by millions online — even if these words don’t actually mean skibidi. On today’s show, we talk to author Adam Aleksic about how TikTok and ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

But then, days later, a wholly unknown competitor, Surge AI, disclosed that it had more than $1 billion in revenue, making it larger than Scale AI and other players. What’s more, the company was ...