New research suggests that artificial intelligence (AI)-powered algorithms like personalized searches, recommendation systems, and AI-powered curation can make us more isolated and polarized, or ...

Why it matters: Spotify’s algorithm influences what millions hear daily, shaping both listener habits and artist exposure. What drives it: Engagement metrics like save rate, repeat listens, and skip ...

Companies, nonprofit organizations, and governments design algorithms to learn and predict user preferences. They embed these algorithms in recommendation systems that help consumers make choices ...

An exclusive excerpt from Every Screen On The Planet reveals how the social media app’s powerful recommendation engine was shaped by a bunch of ordinary, twentysomething curators—including a guy named ...

In a move that will please some of Instagram’s critics, the company will now allow users to reset the recommendation system that powers what they see in their feeds. “We want to make sure everyone on ...

I’ve spent months trying to untrain the algorithms that were relentlessly serving me content on loss. I’ve always been a super-Googler, coping with uncertainty by trying to learn as much as I can ...