UK teachers will be trained to tackle misogyny in the classroom under a new strategy aimed at halving violence against women and girls over the next decade, a minister told parliament Thursday. The ...

Instagram is introducing a new tool that lets you see and control your algorithm, starting with Reels, the company announced on Wednesday. The new tool, called “Your Algorithm,” lets you view the ...

The firm behind a "nudification" website has been fined £50,000 by regulators for failing to implement age checks designed to protect children. This action is part of a wider crackdown, with Ofcom ...

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 ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

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 ...

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 easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

The rise of AI “nudification” tools makes it shockingly easy for anyone to create a fake naked image of you—or any of your family, friends or colleagues—using nothing more than a photo and one of many ...

The internet is awash in deepfakes — audio, pictures or video made using artificial intelligence tools in which people appear to do or say things they didn’t, be somewhere they weren’t, or that change ...