It doesn't take a scientist to figure out that social media can trend toward the negative. But it might take one to figure out why. In a new paper in PNAS, professor of psychology Joshua Conrad ...

MAESTRO analysis of OpenAI and Anthropic incidents reveals how per-layer failures, not just the model, shaped security outcomes.

Heuristics simplify decision-making by using mental shortcuts. Understand their pros, cons, and examples in finance and ...

Algorithmic bias can create and exacerbate health disparities. Famously, in 2019 Obermeyer and colleagues showed that an algorithm that used predicted health-care costs as a proxy for health-care ...

Abstract: This paper studies the problem of aggregative optimization in open multi-agent systems (OMAS), where agents are allowed to join and leave the system in a free manner during the ...

As Large Language Models (LLMs) expand their context windows to process massive documents and intricate conversations, they encounter a brutal hardware reality known as the "Key-Value (KV) cache ...

For decades, the quantum threat to RSA and ECC encryption has been tied to Shor’s algorithm and the assumption that we would need million-qubit quantum computers to make it practical. A newly ...

There's an iconic scene at the end of the 1985 film "Back to the Future" when Doc Brown returns from 2015 to warn Marty McFly and his future wife, Jennifer, that their future children have "problems." ...

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...

Elon Musk's social network X (formerly known as Twitter) last night released some of the code and architecture of its overhauled social recommendation algorithm under a permissive, enterprise-friendly ...

new video loaded: Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments transcript Newly available videos and existing footage synchronized and assessed by The Times provides a ...

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...