The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves directly on the GPU for games and other types of software, but due to ...

Elon Musk says X will roll out a new AI recommendation algorithm next week. The update will also be open sourced, potentially changing how content is ranked and displayed on the platform.

PewDiePie “fixed” YouTube’s algorithm using his own AI by asking it to remove all Shorts and recommended videos.

If you’re going to get sucked in by social media, at least make it worthwhile. TikTok, and many other platforms, use a “black-box” algorithm — an AI recommendation system that studies what captures ...

Taste Profile and Prompted Playlist are just among Spotify’s new AI features that are aimed at tailoring user experience. It ...

You're responsible for your own Spotify algorithm now. On stage at SXSW, Spotify's co-CEO, Gustav Söderström, announced the Taste Profile feature, which allows users to personally customize exactly ...

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 ...