Science Daily

How personalized algorithms trick your brain into wrong answers

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...
Wall Street Journal

The Algorithm Will See You Now

Speaking at WSJ Opinion Live in Washington, D.C., WSJ Editorial Page Editor Paul Gigot and SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary discuss Large Quantitative Models (LQMs) and their role in AI applications, the ...
AOL

Oracle gave its new CFO $26M in stock after firing up to 30,000 workers. Employee says an 'algorithm' may have targeted those with stock options first

Days after Oracle fired up to 30,000 employees via a 6 a.m. email — as Moneywise previously reported — the company announced its next big move: hiring a new chief financial officer with a $26 million ...
Search Engine Land

New Google TurboQuant algorithm improves vector search speed

Google says a new compression algorithm, called TurboQuant, can compress and search massive AI data sets with near-zero indexing time, potentially removing one of the biggest speed limits in modern ...
Business Wire

Anumana Secures FDA Clearance for First-of-Its-Kind ECG-AI Algorithm for Early Detection of Pulmonary Hypertension

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Anumana, a leader in cardiovascular AI, has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its pulmonary hypertension (PH) algorithm, an ...
HousingWire

BFS CEO Jackson maps a bigger role in homebuilding workflows

Builders FirstSource CEO Peter Jackson said the company is positioning itself as a full-service partner for homebuilders through acquisitions, installation services, and the myBLDR digital portal. BFS ...
The Conversation

A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right‑wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly

A new study published today in Nature has found that X’s algorithm – the hidden system or “recipe” that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order – shifts users’ political opinions in ...
Search Engine Roundtable

Google: Search Algorithms, Spam Detections & Policies Don't Fundamentally Change With AI Search

Google's John Mueller said that when it comes to AI Search and the changes that come with that, Google's core search algorithms, spam detection methods, spam policies, and other search systems do not ...
HousingWire

Builders FirstSource acquires Pleasant Valley Homes

BFS’s acquisition of Pleasant Valley Homes marks a strategic move into modular housing. M&A in the building materials industry is seeing fewer deals but larger transactions from top players. AI ...
Ars Technica

Why has Microsoft been routing example.com traffic to a company in Japan?

From the Department of Bizarre Anomalies: Microsoft has suppressed an unexplained anomaly on its network that was routing traffic destined to example.com—a domain reserved for testing purposes—to a ...
IEEE

Breadth-First-Search based Phase Unwrapping Algorithm for Quantitative Phase Imaging

Abstract: A breadth-first-search (BFS) based novel quality-guided phase unwrapping (PU) algorithm is proposed. The BFS algorithm is assisted with the non-uniformly segmented intervals over the range ...