Yahoo revives Artifact inside new AI-powered news app

Artwork is deadLong live Yahoo’s version of Artifact. The architecture behind Artifact will live on inside Yahoo, the news aggregation app built by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. A new Yahoo News app,

Available for download on iOS and Android starting today, the new Yahoo News app brings users an AI-powered personalized news feed based on their interests, while a feature called Key Takeaways can give a bulleted summary of a news article when a reader is feeling TL;DR.

Other features of the Yahoo News app include Top Stories, which curates trending stories for users to read and will soon include key takeaway summaries. You can block stories with unwanted keywords, as well as filter certain publishers according to your preferences. And just like Artifact, Yahoo News also lets you flag such content Clickbaity headlinesSo let’s go AI rewrite them in a better way,

Yahoo is also moving some of what it’s building into the News app to the Yahoo News online homepage. Starting today, the website has a new layout that highlights top news stories, gives personalized recommendations, and shows trending topics. The new homepage experience is opt-in.