AI algorithm enables tracking of brainstem's vital white matter pathways

The signals that drive many of the brain and body's most essential functions—consciousness, sleep, breathing, heart rate and motion—course through bundles of "white matter" fibers in the brainstem, ...
Forbes

Is Your Algorithm Going To Change? Is Your Data Safe? Inside The U.S. TikTok Deal

The U.S. and China finalized a deal Thursday that will give a group of Trump-approved investors, including Oracle, control of TikTok’s U.S. unit. This keeps the app in the U.S. indefinitely following ...
The New York Times

There’s a New American TikTok. What Does That Mean for You?

The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...
TechCrunch

OK, what’s going on with LinkedIn’s algo?

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...
MarketWatch

Structure Therapeutics details positive trial data for a weight-loss pill, and the stock rockets

Structure Therapeutics’ stock soared toward an 18-month high in early Monday trading, after mid-stage data for its oral daily GLP-1 receptor appeared comparable to that of one of Eli Lilly’s ...
Fast Company

The new AI paradox: smarter models, worse data

AI promises a smarter, faster, more efficient future, but beneath that optimism lies a quiet problem that’s getting worse: the data itself. We talk a lot about algorithms, but not enough about the ...
FierceBiotech

Wave, Structure stocks double on obesity data readouts

Amid an outpouring of obesity data Monday, Wave Life Sciences and Structure Therapeutics were among the biotechs jockeying to set their weight loss assets apart in an increasingly crowded field as ...
Morningstar

Structure details positive trial data for a weight-loss pill, and the stock rockets

Structure Therapeutics is developing a daily GLP-1 receptor pill called aleniglipron. Structure Therapeutics' stock soared toward an 18-month high in early Monday trading, after mid-stage data for its ...
Wired

Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs

A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how. If you’re near Rochester, New York, the ...
The Conversation

‘Digital colonialism’: how AI companies are following the playbook of empire

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
GitHub

[FEATURE REQUEST] Add Kruskal’s algorithm

Kruskal’s algorithm finds a Minimum Spanning Tree (MST) by building it edge by edge, always choosing the cheapest edge that doesn’t create a cycle. Sorting all edges in the graph from smallest weight ...
Government Technology

What Is Synthetic Data, and How Is Government Using It?

As AI becomes more common and decisions more data-driven, a new(ish) form of information is on the rise: synthetic data. And some proponents say it promises more privacy and other vital benefits. Data ...