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New York Governor Kathy Hochul and lawmakers unveil the SAFE for Kids Act, aiming to curb algorithm-driven content's adverse effects on youth mental health and require parental consent for access.

ChatGPT-style AI can tackle the drudge work of responding to RFPs faster than humans. Sales teams at Google, Twilio, and others say productivity is spiking.

While the need to regulate algorithmic decision-making is urgent, the effectiveness of mandating algorithmic transparency remains questionable. There is the issue of proprietary concerns. Companies may be hesitant to share such information because these algorithms often form the foundation of their business, as argued by Google when asked for more information about its algorithms by its shareholders.

Untruths spouted by chatbots ended up on the web—and Microsoft's Bing search engine served them up as facts. Generative AI could make search harder to trust.

From Poland to Washington and the suburbs of London, digital election tactics threaten to poison politics next year.

Google, Meta, and others test their algorithms for bias using standardized skin tone scales. Sony says those tools ignore the yellow and red hues at work in human skin color.

Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate search results that will get you to buy more stuff.

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1 percent of the time.

Why you might not be getting a clear picture of the political landscape online.

Three surgeons discuss what they would like to see done differently in the spine and orthopedic industries, including more surgeons involved in healthcare policies.