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Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chicago Cubs are playoff bound, as they beat the Pittsburgh Pirates to clinch their first postseason berth in five seasons. The Cubs now have 88 wins on the season, and though their playoff ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Android 16 QPR2 Beta 1 was released for Pixel phones on August 20. The latest beta build previews some of the features coming ...

No one knows you more than an algorithm. Your best friend may not know that you enjoy watching videos of people knitting or power washing a sidewalk. But the algorithms of TikTok and Instagram do.

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Ever wondered how social media platforms decide how to fill our feeds? They use algorithms, of course, but how do these algorithms work? A series of corporate leaks over the past few years provides a ...

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