Yahoo News Unveils AI-Powered Revamp for Enhanced User Experience

Yahoo News App Enhances User Experience with AI Integration

The Yahoo News app has upgraded its capabilities by integrating AI, following Yahoo's acquisition of Artifact. This update introduces AI-powered personalized feeds, quick summaries, and a feature to flag clickbait headlines.

Yahoo acquired Artifact, the AI-driven news recommendation app developed by Instagram's co-founders, earlier this year after it ceased operations. The latest enhancements leverage this technology to enrich Yahoo's news feed, which attracts over 180 million unique visitors monthly in the U.S.

The updated Yahoo News app, available now on mobile and coming soon to desktop, enables users to select topics and publishers of interest. This input allows the algorithms to tailor your news feed to your preferences. A standout feature is the “Key Takeaways,” offering bullet-point summaries of articles right at the top, ensuring you quickly grasp the main ideas—similar to Artifact’s “Summarize” function.

Users can further refine their feeds by blocking specific keywords (such as "NFT") or publishers whose content does not resonate with them. One of the most exciting new features is the ability to flag misleading clickbait. This prompts the AI to rewrite sensational headlines that may lack critical information, enhancing the clarity of the content you engage with.

In addition to the app updates, Yahoo is refreshing its homepage layout. The revamped user interface emphasizes top news stories, personalized recommendations, and real-time trending topics, with plans for ongoing evolution. Users can opt in to access new features as they are rolled out, many of which will harness the power of AI.

Experience the future of news aggregation with the newly enhanced Yahoo News app.