Yahoo News app gets new AI features for personalized news discovery

The Yahoo News app is getting a major overhaul that brings several new artificial intelligence (AI) features to the news reporting and aggregation platform. The company noted that the new app’s AI capabilities come from its now-defunct AI news app Artifact. Yahoo acquired the platform in April 2024 and has now integrated its architecture into the News app. The platform now offers a customizable feed, key insights into articles and top stories, easy sharing tools, and the ability to flag headlines as clickbait for users.

Yahoo News app gets AI features

Artifact was founded in 2023 by Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger as an AI-powered news aggregation and recommendation platform. The duo attempted to integrate gamification and social media elements into the platform, but was forced to shut down a year later due to lack of popularity. However, Yahoo acquired the platform for an undisclosed amount. Now, the company has integrated Artifact to revamp its news app.

“The patented AI-powered personalization technology and other features have been integral to the development of this differentiated mobile app that gives people the ability to quickly catch up or dive deeper, while also seeing more of what matters and is useful to them, all in one place,” Yahoo said in a statement. press release.

With this update, the Yahoo News app will get an AI-powered personalized feed where users can select topics and publishers based on their preferences, and the AI ​​will surface more of that content. Top Stories is another new feature that shows the day’s trending news topics from around the world. An AI-powered takeaways feature for each trending topic will also be rolling out soon, allowing users to quickly catch up on the most important stories.

The Key Takeaways feature in the app generates key points from a news article and displays them at the top, giving users a good idea of ​​what the article is about. In addition, users can block certain keywords and share articles on third-party apps. Yahoo is also experimenting with gamification. It has added streaks and badges for those who read a certain number of articles per day and continue to do so consistently.

Interested parties can find the Yahoo News app on the Google Play Store for Android and the iOS App Store. However, it is currently only available in certain countries. The app is not available in India.