In a lot of social media use, the algorithm is an intangible entity, silent and all-powerful in controlling what we see in our feeds. And like supplicants to a deity, sometimes we may find ourselves ...

A federal court in Manhattan has cleared the way for enforcing the nation’s first law requiring businesses to disclose when algorithmic pricing—driven by consumer personal data—influences displayed ...

In our current information environment, artificially intelligent, algorithm-driven technologies mediate essentially all information and communication, and they demonstrably influence our ...

The kids these days have a lot of silly euphemisms. Porn becomes corn. Sex becomes seggs. Nipples are nip nops and a picture of an eggplant can stand in for a penis. Killing someone becomes unaliving ...

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 ...

Even 20 years after their mainstream adoption, algorithmic trading continues to challenge regulators and compliance teams. It's not just that it is inherently complex, but the pace of change and ...

We examine a model in which one firm uses a pricing algorithm that enables faster pricing and multi-period commitment. We characterize a coercive equilibrium in which the algorithmic firm maximizes ...

Scholars consider the antitrust implications of advances in AI-driven algorithmic pricing. The rise of AI-driven algorithmic pricing raises several fascinating, albeit perplexing, questions. For ...

Abstract: Differential privacy describes a promise, made by a data curator to a data subject: you will not be affected, adversely or otherwise, by allowing your data to be used in any study, no matter ...

While it was once something only Wall Street players could afford, algorithmic trading is now accessible to smaller investors and startups. Algorithmic trading is when you use computer programs to ...