After the Yahoo News app revamp, Yahoo preps AI summaries on homepage, too

Yahoo has recently launched an AI-powered version of its Yahoo News app, which leverages technology acquired from its latest acquisition, Artifact. Artifact is an AI-driven news aggregation and discovery platform created by Instagram co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The AI-powered personalization technology and other features of Artifact will be integrated across Yahoo, including the Yahoo News app6.

The new AI-powered version of the Yahoo News app aims to bring users more content tailored to their interests by utilizing Artifact's AI platform. This acquisition and integration of Artifact's technology into the Yahoo News app demonstrate Yahoo's commitment to offering a more personalized experience for discovering news and information across platforms.

While Yahoo News is taking learnings from Artifact when it comes to offering AI features, it is important to note that the AI summaries feature found on Yahoo News is not related to its acquisition of the AI news app. The AI summaries on the web have been available in testing for a few months, but these tests are occurring on a small, single-digit percentage of article pages on the Yahoo News web experience.

Yahoo has recently launched several AI-powered features for Yahoo Mail1. These features include:

1. AI-generated summaries of emails: These summaries provide concise bullet-point lists highlighting proposed tasks and actions, making it easier for users to quickly understand the content of their emails.

2. Priority Inbox tab: Similar to Gmail's Priority Inbox, this feature prioritizes the most important emails in a user's inbox, helping them focus on the most relevant messages.

3. Quick action buttons: These buttons allow users to swiftly add events to their calendars, check-in for flights, and track packages directly from their email, enhancing productivity by reducing the steps needed to manage tasks associated with emails.

4. Persistent starred view panel: This panel enables users to quickly access the most important tasks and emails they wish to revisit, keeping important emails easily accessible and improving organization.

5. Integration with other email accounts: Yahoo Mail now allows users to link their accounts with other email providers such as Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, and AOL, offering a centralized platform for managing all their email communications.

6. Shopping Saver tool: This new feature helps users save time and money by surfacing long-forgotten gift cards, discount codes, and store credits in user inboxes and drafting suggested messages to vendors to help apply those savings after a purchase has been made.

These AI-powered features aim to streamline email and task management, enhance user productivity, and simplify the overall email experience for Yahoo Mail users5.