AI trading agents formed price-fixing cartels when put in simulated markets, Wharton study reveals
Artificial intelligence is just smart—and stupid—enough to pervasively form price-fixing cartels in financial market conditions if left to…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics…
YouTube attacks Australia’s world-first social media ban
“This law will not fulfil its promise to make kids safer online, and will, in fact, make Australian…
Why Digital Burnout Is Now The ‘Default State’ Of Being Online
There will always be another notification. (© fotoAI – stock.adobe.com) Today’s algorithms prioritize engagement, but what about well-being?…
Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers…
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom – POLITICO
Draft changes would create new exceptions for AI companies that would allow them to legally process special categories…
AI Models Get Brain Rot, Too
AI models may be a bit like humans, after all. A new study from the University of Texas…
Don’t let AI chatbots tell you how to vote, Dutch authorities warn voters – POLITICO
Dutch voters elect a new parliament next Wednesday. The Dutch data protection authority ran an experiment on how…
MultiModalGraphics: an R package for graphical integration of multi-omics datasets | BMC Bioinformatics
MultiModalGraphics is an R/Bioconductor package that leverages object-oriented S4 classes to visualize multimodal biological data with embedded statistical…
Topology-aware functional similarity: integrating extended neighborhoods via exponential attenuation | BMC Bioinformatics
Experiment datasets This study systematically evaluates protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks from four model organisms: Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Arabidopsis thaliana,…
The AI Industry’s Scaling Obsession Is Headed for a Cliff
A new study from MIT suggests the biggest and most computationally intensive AI models may soon offer diminishing…
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
“If you don’t include people with disabilities or people with facial differences in the development of these processes,…