Mike Krieger

Artifact, the news aggregator-turned social network from Instagram’s founders, is shutting down. On Friday, the startup announced via a blog post it had made the decision to “wind down operations” of the app launched over a year ago, saying that the market opportunity wasn’t big enough to warrant continued investment. The team had rapidly iterated on its product from a SmartNews-like news reading app to a curation and news discovery platform where individual users could become creators of a sort, finding interesting…

In a surprising turn of events, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram, are shutting down their highly anticipated news app, Artifact, just shy of its one-year anniversary. The announcement, delivered through a Medium post by Systrom, outlined that the app's core news reading features would remain accessible until the end of February, but commenting and posting capabilities were immediately disabled. Renowned for its AI-centric functionalities and a Reddit-like interactive environment, Artifact…

Image Source : ARTIFACT A statement released by Artifact. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, co-founders of Instagram, have announced the winding down of their AI-powered news aggregator app, Artifact, after a year of operation. The main reason behind this decision is the realisation that the market opportunity for the app wasn't significant enough to justify further…

Tired of search engine optimization run amok? After allowing users to flag some articles as clickbait, the Artifact news app now says it wants users to mark clickbait headlines they come across so it can rewrite the title text using AI. Hell, if enough users also report the same headline, Artifact will then display that AI-generated headline to all users at once.How Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation Spiral Out of Control on the Internet | TechModoOn Friday, the AI-driven article recommendation app said it would let…

Image: Courtesy of ArtifactArtifact, the personalized news sharing app founded by Instagram’s co-founders, has added comments and discussion on articles, marking the first public social components of the new app.Nobody’s Really Watching ReelsUsers who want to leave comments on articles will have to create an Artifact account and add a verified phone number. Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, who started Instagram together, said in a press release the app is requiring users’ phone numbers in an effort to curtail spam and…

Artifact, a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered personalised news feed application by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is now available to everyone, along with new features.Now, anyone can download and use the new application and no waitlist and phone number are required, the Artifact team wrote in a blogpost.The application is available for both iOS and Android users.With the new version of the application, users can connect their contacts and see articles that are popular in their network.Read…

Artifact features a social media-inspired news feed and an artificial intelligence to cherry-pick news stories you might like. Image: Koshiro K (Shutterstock)Artifact, the self-described “personalized news feed powered by artificial intelligence,” is now live and ready for use by the public. The app was previously introduced last month and seeks to aggregate news stories from top outlets using artificial intelligence.Artifact was developed by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and was previously…

Image: Chris McGrath (Getty Images)Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are returning to the app game with a new innovative startup since leaving the ‘gram in 2018. Artifact is a new social media platform that will provide a feed of articles and facts aimed to create a dialogue between users to discuss things of interest.The app focuses on news content from a personalized and curated list of publishers from top news outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post, to smallerniche blogs. When users…