Zuhair Lakhani ​is creating an army of AI influencers and flooding feeds with “propaganda campaigns.” What could go wrong?

My commutes to work involve a long metro ride, with more than enough opportunities to people-watch. Within these stints, I have deduced that something is afoot amongst the youth — being one myself but ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

“Structured products” are proliferating in exchange-traded funds, and defined-outcome ETFs, or “buffer ETFs,” are among the most popular. These ETFs use options to provide an explicit amount of loss ...

Gen Z, this will smart. The generation born between 1997 and 2010 is the very first generation who did worse in school than the generation before them, according to a top neuroscientist. And ...

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 ...

Buffer ETFs—exchange-traded funds that protect investor returns from market downturns while capping the upside—have drawn in tens of billions of dollars in recent years from baby boomers and ...

Learn how recommendation algorithms, streaming recommendations, and social media algorithms use content recommendation systems to deliver personalized recommendations. Pixabay, TungArt7 From movie ...

While the creation of this new entity marks a big step toward avoiding a U.S. ban, as well as easing trade and tech-related tensions between Washington and Beijing, there is still uncertainty ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...