Researchers at AlgorithmWatch say they were forced to abandon their research project monitoring the Instagram algorithm after legal threats from Facebook. The Berlin-based project went public with the ...

Last week, it seemed that OpenAI—the secretive firm behind ChatGPT—had been broken open. The company’s board had suddenly fired CEO Sam Altman, hundreds of employees revolted in protest, Altman was ...

Microsoft is open-sourcing its cloud-compression algorithm and optimized hardware implementation for cloud storage. Microsoft is contributing that algorithm, known as ""=""> plus the associated ...

Amazon deployed a secret algorithm to gauge how high it could raise prices before its competitors stopped increasing their prices as well, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal ...

The mysterious “Project Nessie,” hinted at in what little was not redacted in the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon, is indeed an algorithmic pricing scheme that raised prices where it could do so safely, ...

TikTok is now allowing Oracle to review changes to its algorithms in an effort to double-check they aren’t being influenced by the Chinese government. ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, has been ...

References to Amazon’s Project Nessie are redacted extensively in the public version of the FTC complaint. The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuit against Amazon alleges, for the first time ...

THERE are many situations where the complete definition of a project depends on a choice from a variety of options. When these choices are technically interdependent, the task of exploration of the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- At an international symposium to be held here May 5-6, algorithm developers and informatics researchers will explore the diffusion of evidence-based mental health treatment ...