An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

TikTok's owner, ByteDance, is expected to sell its US business to a buyer consortium. The new owners will retrain TikTok's content-recommendation algorithm, the White House said. TikTok staffers and ...

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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 ...

Google scientists have created a new algorithm that can solve problems on a quantum processor 13,000 times faster than the world's fastest supercomputers. They say it brings us one step closer to ...

Commentary: With new US ownership, the magic of TikTok's algorithm appears to have run out. And so has my interest. Abrar's interests include phones, streaming, autonomous vehicles, internet trends, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TikTok may have dodged a US ban but unresolved questions about its algorithm could remain a source of tension in the broader ...

The anticipated TikTok deal represents a crucial step in the ongoing trade negotiations between the United States and China. After years of controversy, the agreement is expected to be signed in the ...