Yahoo is widening its use of artificial intelligence in news delivery with the launch of an afternoon audio digest that personalises headlines for each listener. The move signals how major publishers are starting to treat AI-generated audio as a core distribution format rather than an experiment.
The new briefing, called Your Daily Digest, is available on weekdays from noon to 5pm for users of the Yahoo News app in the United States. It follows an AI-driven morning edition introduced earlier this year and offers a six to eight-minute summary of stories drawn from the categories a user reads most often, including current events, entertainment and lifestyle.
The product is built on technology from Artifact, the news aggregation app Yahoo bought in 2024.
Kat Downs Mulder, Yahoo News senior vice president and general manager, told Axios that the system stays closely tied to specific partner and Yahoo News articles. “There is a tight loop between the summary and the source text,” said Downs Mulder, adding that human checks support accuracy and consistency.
Yahoo sees the briefings as part of a broader shift towards what Downs Mulder described as a multimodal news experience that lets audiences read, watch or listen.
“With more people turning to audio for their news, we see an opportunity to make quality journalism more accessible, personalized, and useful throughout the day,” she said in a LinkedIn post promoting the launch. “This follows the debut of The Morning Briefing – all part of how we’re building an audio experience that spans our listener’s day.”
Other publishers are testing similar tools. Business Insider and Time have both introduced AI-generated audio updates, and the format has gained momentum as generative technology reduces the cost and time required to produce spoken summaries.
Yahoo plans to add an evening edition next and is preparing to monetise its audio products.
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