Yahoo just launched a revamped Yahoo News app powered by the tech it acquired from Instagram founders' Artifact. The app serves up personalized feeds, bullet-point summaries, and Artifact's signature feature: letting AI rewrite clickbait headlines into plain English. It's available now on iOS and Android alongside an opt-in web redesign.
Anthropic just hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its very first Chief Product Officer. Krieger will oversee product engineering, management, and design, tasked with taking Claude beyond the enterprise and deeper into the consumer market. With OpenAI and Google rolling out slicker interfaces by the day, Anthropic is bringing in a veteran builder to sharpen its product chops.
Yahoo just acquired the underlying technology behind Artifact, the AI news app built by Instagram’s co-founders. While the standalone app is shutting down, its personalization and recommendation engine will power Yahoo News and its 185 million monthly readers. Co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger will stay on as special advisors.
Artifact just partnered with Speechify to roll out an AI text-to-speech feature that reads news articles aloud. It offers over 30 English voices—including celebrity options like Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow—along with up to 4.5x playback speeds and background listening. The update is live now on iOS and coming soon to Android.
