Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger is coming to the Code Conference
by Jacob Kastrenakes from The Verge - All Posts on (#6ESCP)
Artifact co-founder Mike Krieger. | Photo: Artifact Artifact co-founder and CTO Mike Krieger will be onstage at the Code Conference this month, where he'll discuss his new AI-infused news app in an interview with Platformer founder Casey Newton.
The new company from Krieger and Kevin Systrom, the two founders of Instagram, is trying to build a different and more helpful kind of news app by leaning on AI. It tries to surface interesting articles based on your reading habits, can rewrite headlines to make them more useful, and is increasingly filling up with social features to put a wider variety of content in front of readers.
Just this week, Artifact launched a new feature called Links that recommends any type of content that users feed into it, from recipes to design mockups to old...