Algorithms, particularly in the form of artificial intelligence and machine learning, are proliferating in finance and changing how we make decisions. Algorithms have been around for a while in the ...

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 ...

Algorithms that respond to real-time feedback and can learn to respond to experimental irregularities can help deal with the complexities of biological manufacturing. That’s the subject of a talk due ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

Over the past decade, health insurance companies have increasingly embraced the use of artificial intelligence algorithms. Unlike doctors and hospitals, which use AI to help diagnose and treat ...

On the DoorDash app, New York users got a notice that the new law "requires that we make the following disclosure because we ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. It is an irony almost never noted that tenant advocates who support rent ...

Marco Rubio’s ‘Catch and Revoke’ plan could let the U.S. government scan immigrants’ social media with AI to strip visas—raising fears of surveillance overreach and algorithm-driven repression. The ...

Instagram is adding a way for users to "tune" their algorithm to see their preferred content, which is first heading to Reels.

We've all been there: Scrolling through social media and spotting the ads recommending something you never knew you needed, whether it's the perfect pair of shoes, a gadget to solve an annoying ...

This is Part 1 of Embedded Bias, a series revealing how race-based clinical algorithms pervade medicine and why it's so difficult to change them. Pediatrician Alexandra Epee-Bounya had had enough. In ...