Artifact is dead, long live Yahoo’s version of Artifact. The architecture behind Artifact, the news aggregation app developed by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, will live in the new Yahoo News app.
The new Yahoo News app, now available for download on iOS and Android platforms, gives users a personalized, AI-driven news feed based on their interests, and a feature called Key Takeaways lets readers Provides a summary of key points from a news article; Ph.D.
Other features of the Yahoo News app include Trending Stories, which collects popular stories for users to read and will soon include summaries of key takeaways. You can block stories containing unwanted keywords and filter out certain publishers based on your preferences. Like Artifact, Yahoo News lets you tag content like click headlines and let artificial intelligence rewrite them into better content.
Yahoo is also bringing some of the content it builds in its news app to the Yahoo News online homepage. Starting today, the site features a new layout that highlights trending news, provides personalized recommendations, and displays trending topics. The new homepage experience is opt-in.
