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Artifact, the AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders, is going to let you post directly to the app. So far, the app has been an aggregator for news and links from around the internet.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of Instagram, announced Artifact, a news app that uses machine learning and algorithmic recommendations to serve a feed of stories to readers.

Artifact users on iOS should get text-to-speech features for free, with Gwyneth Paltrow and more than 30 other voices available.

On Thursday, the Artifact news app announced it was adding text-to-speech features that will allow users to listen to articles with an AI voice powered by Speechify. The update should be available free for all iOS users, and the feature should be out on Android sometime in the near future.

Instagram’s co-founders’ personalized news reader, Artifact, is now open to the public without sign-up. Last month, Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger unveiled their latest venture as an invite-only experience, promising their news app would later include social features like discussing the news with friends. Today’s launch removes Artifact’s waitlist and phone number requirements, …

A team of seven people is now working on the app, including Robby Stein, a top product executive at Instagram from 2016 to 2021.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger are back.The Instagram co-founders, who departed Facebook in 2018 amid tensions with their parent company, have formed a new vent

EXCLUSIVE: Meet Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text

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