Elon Musk says X's algorithm is 'dumb' and 'needs massive improvements' as he open-sources recommendation system

Elon Musk isn't a fan of X's algorithm, so he's documenting the company's efforts to improve the tech that decides what you ...

COVID-era trick could transform drug and chemical discovery

Laboratories turned to a smart workaround when COVID‑19 testing kits became scarce in 2020. They mixed samples from several ...

Thousands of Companies Are Driving China’s AI Boom. A Government Registry Tracks Them All

How the Cyberspace Administration of China inadvertently made a guide to the country’s homegrown AI revolution.

How Does the Hive Mind Work in Pluribus?

So if we’re right, each former human is now essentially a radio transmitter and receiver. One plurb sends out a signal that ...

Rail Vision: Quantum Transportation Delivers First Transformer-Based Neural Decoder for Universal Quantum Error Correction

Achieves superior decoding accuracy and dramatically improved efficiency compared to leading classical algorithmsRa’anana, Israel, Jan. 15, 2026 ...

Elon Musk Says X Algorithm Will Go Open Source

Musk promises full access to X’s recommendation code and recurring updates as regulators intensify scrutiny over feeds and ...
TechCrunch

Amazon previews 3 AI agents, including ‘Kiro’ that can code on its own for days

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday announced three new AI agents it calls “frontier agents,” including one designed to learn how you like to work and then operate on its own for days. Each of these agents ...
IEEE

A Modified Q-Learning Algorithm for Rate-Profiling of Polarization Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) Codes

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning based algorithm for rate-profile construction of Arikan’s Polarization Adjusted Convolutional (PAC) codes. This method can be used for any ...
NPR

New limits for rent algorithm that prosecutors say let landlords drive up prices

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...
Interesting Engineering

Physics-based algorithm enables nuclear microreactors to adjust power automatically

Scientists in the United States have come up with a physics-based algorithm that could one day make it possible for nuclear microreactors to adjust the power output based on need. The study was funded ...
cryptopolitan

Trump-China deal hands TikTok’s U.S. algorithm to Larry Ellison’s Oracle

Trump approved a deal handing control of TikTok’s U.S. algorithm to Oracle. Oracle will rebuild, retrain, and monitor the algorithm without ByteDance involvement. The new U.S.-based TikTok venture ...
NewsNation

‘Music festival’ or protest? Activists using code to bypass algorithm

Immigrant rights advocates rally at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on Aug. 12, 2025. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images) Want to see more of NewsNation? Get ...