Often, when there’s talk about algorithms and journalism, the focus is on how to use algorithms to help publishers share content better and make more money. There’s the unending debate, for example, ...

When Christopher Steiner, the 35-year-old cofounder of Aisle50, a Y Combinator startup offering online grocery deals, set out to write the book Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World ...

There’s a new beat in town: algorithms. From formulas that determine what you see on social media to equations that dictate government operations, algorithms are increasingly powerful and pervasive.

Algorithms are invisible pieces of code that tell a computer how to accomplish a specific task. Think of it as a recipe for a computer: An algorithm tells the computer what to do in order to ...

OpenAI, the AI research company originally founded by Elon Musk — before he quit in disgust — just unveiled a new algorithm called Codex that can interpret commands written in English and turn ...

That’s because the code Twitter released omitted important details about how “the algorithm” actually works, according to engineers who have studied it.

As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users' timelines. On ...

Mashable's series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. The world in 2020 has been given plenty of reasons to be wary of algorithms.

Twitter has released part of its source code for its recommendation algorithm. It shows how it specifically tracks how Elon Musk's tweets are doing. Credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via ...