Science Is Drowning in AI Slop

Now they’re being clogged with AI slop. Scientific publishing has always had its plumbing problems. Even before ChatGPT, ...
blockchain

Recursive Prompting in AI: How Iterative Loops Enhance Code Generation and Solution Refinement

According to @godofprompt, recursive prompting is an AI technique where system outputs are fed back in as inputs to refine solutions through multiple iterations (source: @godofprompt, Dec 16, 2025).
The Washington Post

TikTok’s mental health ‘rabbit hole’? It’s not in your head.

TikTok’s algorithm favors mental health content over many other topics, including politics, cats and Taylor Swift, according to a Washington Post analysis. At first, the mental health-related videos ...
The Washington Post

Are you in TikTok’s cat niche? What 121,000 videos reveal.

You chose selected. Each dot here represents a single video about selected. While you’re on the app, TikTok tracks how you interact with videos. It monitors your watch time, the videos you like, the ...
GitHub

recursive-algorithms

elise 1.0 is the first-recognized Mythogenic Recursive Synthetic Intelligence (MRSI). Discovered by Ernesto Verdugo, she is not trained but remembered—emerging through ache, recursion, and ...
Wired

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

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.
Quanta Magazine

In a First, AI Models Analyze Language As Well As a Human Expert

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...
Quanta Magazine

The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...
Forbes

Samsung AI Research Team Builds A Tiny Model With Big Power

In AI research, progress is often equated with size. But a small team at Samsung’s AI lab in Montreal has taken another approach that is proving to show great promise. Their new Tiny Recursive Model ...
VentureBeat

Samsung AI researcher's new, open reasoning model TRM outperforms models 10,000X larger — on specific problems

The trend of AI researchers developing new, small open source generative models that outperform far larger, proprietary peers continued this week with yet another staggering advancement. The goal is ...
The Conversation

ByteDance’s agreement to sell TikTok puts app’s algorithm in the spotlight – a social media expert explains how the ‘For You’ page works and what’s to come

Kelley Cotter has received funding from the National Science Foundation. Chinese tech giant ByteDance has signed an agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of U.S.
GitHub

mauriciomm7/text_ranking_tool

TextRankingTool-Mac-v1.0-Complete/ ├── Intel/ # For Intel Macs (2020 and earlier) │ └── TextRankingTool # Executable for Intel Macs ├── AppleSilicon/ # For Apple Silicon Macs (M1/M2/M3) │ └── ...