Following the Yahoo News app overhaul, Yahoo is now preparing to introduce AI-powered summaries on its homepage as well.

It doesn't seem to be a done thing yet, because Yahoo recently launched AI powered features on Yahoo Mail which include a version of Priority Inbox seen on Gmail as well as AI summaries on emails.
Following the Yahoo News app overhaul, Yahoo is now preparing to introduce AI-powered summaries on its homepage as well.
It doesn't seem to be a done thing yet, because Yahoo recently launched AI powered features on Yahoo Mail which include a version of Priority Inbox seen on Gmail as well as AI summaries on emails. Today, Yahoo is introducing an AI version of the Yahoo News application, by using technology which it had acquired from the latest purchase, Artifact. However, Yahoo has plans for further AI developments - more than likely for its news property online. Code references on the refreshed Yahoo News site revealed that Yahoo is testing an AI summaries feature, probably as a way to allow visitors to keep up with the news at a glance without reading individual articles. Yet the Yahoo News app is not learning from Artifact when it comes to the offerings of AI features. Still, the AI summaries feature found on Yahoo News have nothing to do with the acquisition of the well-liked AI news app that had been created by the founders of Instagram but closed due to failure to reach more people. Yahoo confirmed to TechCrunch that its AI summaries on the web have been available in testing for a few months, but those tests are occurring on a small, single-digit percentage of article pages on the Yahoo News web experience, the company told TechCrunch. That would explain why most visitors to the Yahoo News website would not have likely encountered these AI summaries as of yet. The code doesn't give much away about the underlying technology Yahoo is using for the AI summaries, but rather how they would look to site visitors — in a lightbox, a type of web component used for displaying content. Yahoo wouldn't comment further on the technology itself or when it would launch publicly. The company does have a partnership with OpenAI for its Yahoo News mobile app, though. Combined with the Artifact-inspired revamp of Yahoo News and the AI features that showed up on Yahoo Mail, it is evident that Yahoo is playing its bets on AI for the push of its older web products and services. Whether this will simply be enough to attract a new audience remains to be seen, however.
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2024-11-03 18:34:31