Data-driven AI systems increasingly influence our choices, raising concerns about autonomy, fairness, and accountability. Achieving algorithmic autonomy requires new infrastructures, motivation ...

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For the first time, a jury will hear claims that social media giants like Meta designed social media to addict young users.

Machine learning redesigns microscopic web sensors to be five times more flexible than nature-inspired versions, enabling detection of masses as small as trillionths of a gram.

The French action comes as investigations into X’s Grok chatbot expand across multiple jurisdictions, including the UK and EU ...

Why Indian states trying to ban social media for children below 16 are relying on blunt, hard-to-enforce access restrictions.

Instagram is one of Australia’s most popular social media platforms. Almost two in three Aussies have an account. Ushering in 2026 and what he calls “synthetic everything” on our feeds, Head of ...

I think we really have to think politically and really think about our values and what we need to protect there," Michael Livermore said.

The path toward the hybrid future requires resistance against the path of least resistance. If you don't share your best self ...

When AI prioritizes uniform productivity, it excludes. When it accounts for human variability, it unlocks overlooked talent.

Social networks exploit young people's vulnerability and actually help boost certain disorders that they are prone to ...

It’s boom times for meal-replacement products that cater to the overwhelmed (and wellness-obsessed) millennial. But Soylent they are not.