Adi Gangidi, KR Kishore, and Jenya Lee from Meta outline in the blog post “How Meta trains large language models at scale” Meta’s infrastructure advancements...

The ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS) is calling for papers for a special issue on recommender systems in the industry. This special issue...

Recommender-Systems Evaluation is and maybe always has been a challenge. The Dagstuhl Seminar 24211 attempted to improve the current state of recommender-systems evaluation, and as...

The ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems has announced a special issue on “Recommender Systems for Good,” led by guest editors Marko Tkalčič, Noemi Mauro, Alan...

Registration for the ACM RecSys Conference 2024 is now open! To register for RecSys 2024, participants must use the designated registration portal. The main conference...

Spotify is rolling out a new feature in the UK and Australia. Users can create “AI Playlists”, i.e. a user types a prompt such as...

The SIGIR 2024 — the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval — is taking place in July in Washington....

Once in a while, there are recommender-systems summer schools co-located with the ACM Recommender Systems Conference. Also, this year, there will be a summer school...

‘Artifact‘ was a news aggregation platform founded in 2023 by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In January 2024, Artifact announced that it would...

We reported about the Digital Service Act (DSA) and its implications for recommendations and e-commerce previously. As the European Commission reports, there is now the...