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Artifact
Artifact initially planned to end news reading in February 2024, but continued beyond that deadline. On April 2, Yahoo announced its acquisition and the end of Artifact as a standalone app; its technology would move into Yahoo News.
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An AI-driven personalized news reader and discovery feed that ranked stories and adapted to each user's interests.
- Operator at shutdown
- Artifact Company source
- Launched
- 31 Jan 2023Launch source
- Service end
- Closed; date inferred · 2 Apr 2024Closure announcement · Not the verified service cutoffClosure source
Sources and verification
Yahoo announces the acquisition of Artifact — Yahoo ↗ · Checked 13 Oct 2026
Verification notes
- Shutdown
- January 12 was the initial wind-down announcement; the February deadline was a plan, not the actual cutoff. A March 26 founder interview confirmed continued operation. Yahoo's April 2 acquisition announcement states that Artifact would no longer operate as a standalone app. The displayed April 2 date is an announcement-date proxy, not a confirmed service cutoff. Yahoo's official announcement was available in indexed text during this review; full-page access was not verified. The successor use of its technology in Yahoo News is distinct from the standalone app. The original page was inaccessible when checked. The official notice remains available in search indexes. Closure source
- Dates checked
- Announced 12 Jan 2024 · Verified 13 Oct 2026
- AI functionality
- AI functionality source
- Launch
- Nokto's founder-signed trademark application was filed on January 31, 2023, the day Artifact was announced and opened its waitlist. The broader open beta followed in February.
- Location
- United States · San Francisco. Nokto's founder-signed January 2023 trademark application identifies the operator's mailing city as San Francisco. This records a historical operator address, not a service market or server location. Coordinates use the Natural Earth city point rounded to two decimal places. Location source · Coordinate source
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