AI systems label and score content before ranking. Annotation determines how you’re understood — and whether you compete at all.

Wemby did some mental multiplication after he qualified for Defensive Player of the Year, MVP and All-NBA, while other stars like Luka Doncic and Cade Cunningham may be on the outside looking in.

Ben Blatt, a data reporter for The Upshot, dreams up inventive ways to answer questions like: “Is Taylor Swift actually ...