The social media platform has taken a step towards transparency amid ongoing battles over platform spam and non-consensual AI ...

Social media companies and their respective algorithms have repeatedly been accused of fueling political polarization by promoting divisive content on their platforms. Now, two U.S. Senators have ...

Instead of using text tokens, the Chinese AI company is packing information into images. An AI model released by the Chinese AI company DeepSeek uses new techniques that could significantly improve AI ...

Facepalm: Microsoft is increasingly pushing its Copilot AI service onto lower-tier Windows users. The company aims to "help" gamers with Gaming Copilot, but the tool may raise privacy concerns by ...

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 ...

In this tutorial, we build an Advanced OCR AI Agent in Google Colab using EasyOCR, OpenCV, and Pillow, running fully offline with GPU acceleration. The agent includes a preprocessing pipeline with ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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 ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, ...

Think about the last time you opened Netflix. Did you scroll through countless options or go with a recommended title? When you log into social media, do you decide what to see, or does an algorithm ...