Yahoo's ai push isn't over yet. The company, also parent of TechCrunch, recently launched ai-powered features for Yahoo Mailincluding its own version of Gmail's Priority Inbox and ai email digests, and today is unfolding an ai-powered version of its Yahoo News app, leveraging technology it acquired from its latest acquisition, Artifact. Still, Yahoo has more ai plans in the works, including for its Yahoo News property on the web.
Code references on the newly redesigned Yahoo News website indicated that Yahoo is testing an ai summaries feature, presumably as a way to allow visitors to quickly catch up on news without having to read articles in their entirety.
However, while the Yahoo News app is learning from Artifact When it comes to offering ai features, the ai summaries feature found on Yahoo News is not related to the acquisition of the popular ai news app that had been created by the founders of instagram but was later shut down. of not being able to reach a broader audience. .
Contacted for comment, Yahoo confirmed that its web ai summaries have been available in testing for a few months, but those tests are being conducted on a small, single-digit percentage of article pages in the Yahoo web experience. News, the company told TechCrunch. . That would explain why most visitors to the Yahoo News website probably haven't encountered these ai summaries so far.
The code doesn't reveal much about the underlying technology Yahoo is using for the ai summaries, only how they would appear to site visitors: in a lightbox, a type of web component used to display content. Yahoo declined to share more about the technology itself or when it would be released publicly. The company has a society However, with OpenAI for its Yahoo News mobile app.
Combined with the Artifact-inspired revamp of Yahoo News and the ai features coming to Yahoo Mail, it's clear that Yahoo is betting on ai to give its older web products and services a boost. Of course, it remains to be seen whether simply adding ai will attract a new audience.
