A new study published in Nature has found that X's algorithm—the hidden system or "recipe" that governs which posts appear in your feed and in which order—shifts users' political opinions in a more ...

The X logo appears on a smartphone screen. (Photo by Nikolas Kokovlis/NurPhoto via Getty Images) (NurPhoto via Getty Images) When X's engineering team published the code that powers the platform's ...

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 ...

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 ...

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company "will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine ...

Jan 10 (Reuters) - Elon Musk said on Saturday that social media platform X will open to the public its new algorithm, including all code for organic and advertising post recommendations, in seven days ...

Google has rolled out fewer confirmed search ranking updates in 2025, then it did in all the past years where Google confirmed these updates. Google rolled out only four confirmed updates in 2025, ...

Google launched four official and confirmed algorithmic updates in 2025, three core updates and one spam update. This is in comparison to last year, in 2024, where we had seven confirmed updates, then ...

The new Instagram feature reveals what the algorithm thinks you like and lets you adjust it, reshaping how content gets recommended on Reels. Instagram launched Your Algorithm in the U.S. today, a ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other's moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

In 2025, the Instagram algorithm has become more advanced than ever, using artificial intelligence and machine learning to decide what content users see in their Feeds, Reels, Stories, Explore pages, ...