As repeatedly promised by Twitter CEO Elon Musk, Twitter has opened a portion of its source code to public inspection, including the algorithm it uses to recommend tweets in users’ timelines.

The algorithm developed by Google researchers is being used by its Street View team to improve Google Maps, by helping to recognising characters in natural or blurry images — for example ...

But more often than not, interviewing engineers is not an option — even government algorithms are protected by a FOIA trade secret exception that shields third-party source code. There is at least one ...

TikTok denied a Reuters report that engineers are cloning the recommendation algorithm to let it work ... The sources also said that splitting the source code would cut TikTok off from the ...