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“It’s an uncomfortable truth: more and more, we’re marketing to algorithms”, says Wesley ter Haar, co-founder and chief AI officer at Monks, explaining how those algorithms ultimately determine which ...

Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; photos courtesy of Jules Fennell, Rebecca Tauber, Sophia Mitropoulos for The Athletic NEW YORK — Most mornings, Sophia Mitropoulos, 30, sets off from her ...

Instagram debuted “Your Algorithm,” an AI-powered feature that gives users control over their Reels recommendations The tool shows an AI-generated summary of interests (e.g., “creativity, sports hype” ...

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In April of 2023, when I was fresh out of a Ph.D. program in philosophy, I was hired as the nonfiction critic at the newly revived books section of the Washington Post. The shock to my system was ...

I have eight years of experience covering Android, with a focus on apps, features, and platform updates. I love looking at even the minute changes in apps and software updates that most people would ...

Nostalgia for 2016 has been circulating on the internet over the last few weeks. People welcomed the new year by reminiscing 10 years into the past, sharing decade-old photos of themselves online.