Yahoo resurrects Artifact within a new AI-powered news app

Artifact is dead, long live Yahoo’s version of Artifact. The architecture behind Artifact, the news aggregation app created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, will live inside the body of a new Yahoo News app.

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

Other features of the Yahoo News app include Top Stories, which selects popular stories for users to read and will soon include important summaries. You can block stories with unwanted keywords, as well as filter certain publishers according to your preference. And just like Artifact, Yahoo News also lets you flag content like clickbait headlines and then lets AI rewrite them into something better.

Yahoo is also bringing some of what it’s building in the News app to the Yahoo News online home page. Starting today, the site has a new layout that highlights the main news, gives personalized recommendations and shows trending topics. The new homepage experience is optional.