Algorithmic trading is no longer the exclusive domain of niche quantitative firms—it has become the backbone of modern financial markets. I am already seeing the significant impact AI-driven ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

From Nat'l Retail Fed'n v. James, decided yesterday by Judge Jed Rakoff (S.D.N.Y.): [T]he Algorithmic Pricing Disclosure Act … provides that any entity domiciled or doing business in New York that ...

Source: Walther, Claude. 2025 Artificial intelligence is used to generate everything from news articles to marketing copy. This pervasive AI influence comes with a troubling pattern: AI systems ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Copies of Senate amendments during a vote-a-rama at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. Donald Trump's $3.3 trillion tax and spending cut bill passed the Senate Tuesday ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...