Yahoo's AI Bet — Scout, Anthropic, and the Artifact Acquisition

Yahoo's AI strategy is the single hottest topic a 2026 candidate can walk in prepared to discuss. The January 2026 launch of Scout, built on Anthropic's Claude models and powered by Microsoft Bing's index, is Yahoo's most public statement of intent in a decade. Combined with the 2024 Artifact acquisition (the AI news app from Instagram co-founders) and a wave of AI features in Mail, this module arms candidates to discuss Yahoo's AI posture like an employee, not an outsider.