The solid-state battery race is heating up. Factorial Energy, a Massachusetts-based start-up, plans to go public in mid-2026. The listing will provide $100 million in capital to advance its battery ...

Cartesian Growth Corp. III Class A ( (CGCT)) just unveiled an announcement. On December 17, 2025, Cartesian Growth Corporation III and Factorial Inc. signed a definitive business combination agreement ...

Factorial, the start-up, said the listing would provide money that would help it bring new solid-state batteries to market as soon as 2027. By Jack Ewing Factorial Energy, which is developing advanced ...

For the first time, Instagram will start letting you control the topics its algorithm recommends, much as you now can on TikTok. The new feature is starting with the Reels tab but will eventually come ...

Users can note which content they would like to view more frequently. Instagram is handing users some control in deciding what content they see. The social media giant is allowing users to have a say ...

Threads is testing a new way for users to manipulate their own recommendation algorithm. The feature, aptly called "Dear algo," allows users to post a message to the algorithm with the note "dear algo ...

new video loaded: I’m Building an Algorithm That Doesn’t Rot Your Brain transcript Jack Conte, the chief executive of Patreon, a platform for creators to monetize their art and content, outlines his ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

Instagram is back with a new feature that will allow users to "tune" their algorithm to only display the content they prefer to see, which will be first made available to Reels. The feature is still ...

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 ...

A potential TikTok deal emerged Monday between the US and China, two days before the Trump administration's latest sell or be banned deadline. Now, attention is shifting to the app's Chinese algorithm ...