For months, Crypto Twitter felt like it was talking to an empty room. On July 13, that started to change. X's head of product, Nikita Bier, announced a change to the platform's algorithm designed to ...

X has made a “tweak” to its algorithm to boost the visibility of posts to users’ “mutuals” — the people they follow who follow them back, head of product, Nikita Bier, said Monday. “We noticed this ...

Steve Adubato joins Jess Rauchberg, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, Media, and Arts at Seton Hall University, to examine how social media platforms keep users coming back ...

Zhipu's GLM 5.2 lands within a percentage point of Anthropic's Opus 4.8 on a key agentic benchmark at roughly a fifth of the cost. As frontier token spend strains budgets, enterprises are asking how ...

For years, social media giants controlled what users saw in their feeds. While people could follow accounts, like posts or hide content they didn’t enjoy, recommendation algorithms controlled what was ...

It's a simple word that has developed a sinister connotation: algorithm. For many of us, algorithms help determine what we watch, read and listen to — in the process, confirming our tastes and biases, ...

Alexander Willis is a senior editor who graduated from the Mayborn School of Journalism at the University of North Texas and currently lives in the Metro Nashville area, Tennessee. Prior to joining ...

With everything else going on in 2026, at least we don’t have Google’s “Privacy Sandbox” to worry about. The high-profile project is over. Or is it? Not quite ...

The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was. Essentially, the firm creates networks of social media pages (typically on TikTok) ...

Google's first broad core update of 2026 has finished rolling out. The March 2026 core update started March 27 and completed April 8. Google described it as "a regular update" and didn't publish a ...