The New York Times

Where Have All the Book Reviews Gone?

What the rise of A.I. and the gutting of books coverage across U.S. media will mean for literature. By Dwight Garner In 1981, Donald Barthelme published “Challenge,” a funny and weirdly prescient ...
Morningstar

BestEx Research Launches Curator, a Dark Algorithm Designed to Move Beyond Aggregation and Systematically Address the Cost Gaps of Dark Execution

Curator applies a layered, venue-specific framework to protect execution quality against drivers of cost, both measurable and invisible, in an increasingly complex dark landscape STAMFORD, Conn., ...
dbta

QuSecure Joins NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to Address Post-Quantum Algorithm Migration

QuSecure, Inc., a market leader in post-quantum cybersecurity and cryptographic agility, announced it is collaborating with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in the Migration to ...
Seeking Alpha

Google reveals algorithms to address AI memory challenges; memory and storage stocks drop

Google (GOOG)(GOOGL) revealed a set of new algorithms today designed to reduce the amount of memory needed to run large language models and vector search engines. The algorithms introduced by Google ...
The New York Times

The Life-Changing Power of a Book Review Before Algorithms

How The Washington Post’s now-defunct Book World transformed the careers of two giants of American literature. Credit...Tom Etherington Supported by By David Streitfeld David Streitfeld, a reporter ...
The Boston Globe

Louise Erdrich’s ‘Python’s Kiss’ weaves stories about the living and the dead

In my Boston Globe review of Louise Erdrich’s 2016 novel “LaRose,” I described her as “an artist of the liminal.” “Python’s Kiss,” Erdrich’s new collection of stories written over 20 years, testifies ...
Forbes

Tech Companies Must Address Social Media Algorithms: The Route To Radicalization And Extremism

For over 20 years, my organization has been involved with both researching and collaborating with technology companies, social media platforms and government agencies to understand, map and predict ...
The New Yorker

The Death of Book World

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 ...
The Hollywood Reporter

Spotify Adds Physical Books to Audiobook Offering

The tech platform will allow readers to move between physical and audiobooks and offer the sale of books from independent bookstores. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer About two years after the launch ...
TechCrunch

X open sources its algorithm while facing a transparency fine and Grok controversies

In 2023, the website then known as Twitter partially open sourced its algorithm for the first time. In those days, Tesla billionaire Elon Musk had only recently acquired the platform, and he claimed ...
Business Wire

Algorithms Are Reshaping News Visibility: Here’s How to Adapt

It’s hard to ignore the seismic shifts brought about by algorithm-driven content. Every time you scroll through your social media feed or check your favorite news app, algorithms are diligently at ...
Los Angeles Times

Why this film critic’s new book reads like a doom scroll of cultural decay

As movies have morphed from a vibrant public event into a product we watch on our personal screens, film criticism has also been disrupted thanks to apps like Letterboxd. Fortunately, film critic A. S ...