Qube Research & Technologies, one of London’s biggest quant funds, is building an in-house team of human stock pickers led by Stephen Irvine.

AI is helping employers hire faster, but questions remain over bias, transparency, data privacy, and accountability. Umairah Nasir speaks to HR and legal experts about the risks organisations may be ...

Social media feeds are becoming more customizable as platforms like Threads, Instagram, and TikTok introduce tools that let users directly influence the algorithms powering their recommendations.

The Feel of Algorithms is a book written by Minna Ruckenstein, Professor in Emerging Technologies in Society at the University of Helsinki. The book brings relatable first-person accounts of what it ...

Why is Nigel Farage so scared of his shadow? His party is fighting a by-election against a Labour candidate who, if he wins, is likely to become prime minister. This is Farage’s chance to change the ...

Welcome to The Athletic’s Premier League predictions challenge, which I’m horrified to have to say has been won by the subscribers. Yes, Arsenal fan Neel from New Delhi held his nerve on the final day ...

You’ve been shopping on Amazon for years. Returned things that didn’t fit, arrived broken or looked nothing like the photos. Normal stuff. Amazon’s algorithm tracks every return: the category, the ...

China has confirmed for the first time that it is drawing up a “comprehensive law” on artificial intelligence. Industry insiders said the move showed China had accumulated enough practical experience ...

Our simulations debunk the notion that the act created artificial minority districts that wouldn’t otherwise exist. By Nate Cohn and Eve Washington The number of Black representatives from the South ...

In Baltimore on Oct. 20, 2025, a 17-year-old student named Taki Allen was sitting outside his high school after football practice when an artificial intelligence-enhanced surveillance camera falsely ...

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 ...

In 2023, the Federal Trade Commission, then led by Joe Biden appointee Lina Khan, along with 17 states, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon. The case, finally scheduled to go to trial next year, ...