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Weather is so hot right now. (And we’re not talking about the temps! 😎) In this weekend’s Sunday Styles section, The New York Times forecasted a 100% chance of weather influencers scattered across your social feeds, with resident Yahoo Weatherboy Kyle Cooke leading the pack in our newly redesigned app. Read the full piece: https://lnkd.in/eUjy7pNH And check out the new Yahoo Weather app today: https://lnkd.in/exQx-p89

It’s almost fall, which means it’s officially time for football. And not only does Yahoo have Fantasy Football, but now we've got College Fantasy Football! If you want to try it this year but don't know where to begin, you don’t need to experience fantasy league FOMO. 🏈  Whether you aim to…  → challenge your coworkers (Take that, Craig from accounting!) → revive your alumni group chat (Because nothing spices things up like a rivalry.) → know what your friends are yelling about on Saturdays (Seriously, what gives?) …we've got you covered. Swipe through to learn some of the basics, and sign up for Yahoo College Fantasy Football today: yahoofantasy.com/college

"There’s something inherently trustworthy about [being] the ‘OG’ of the space. We are the original guide to the internet . . . We want to get the brand back out there again.” Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone sat down with Financial Times to share why 30+ years of search experience isn’t just what wins us “vintage” cred with digital natives: it’s what sets Yahoo Scout apart in today’s AI search landscape. Read the full interview: https://lnkd.in/ewdRUAbi

“We have a social contract with the open web.” Eric Feng and Kat Downs Mulder spent Ai4 - Artificial Intelligence Conferences explaining what that actually means in practice at Yahoo: as a tech company, as a publisher, and as human beings who care about preserving the open web. → They took the stage with Harry McCracken of Fast Company to tackle a meaty question: when AI sits between people and the answers they’re looking for, what happens to the sources who uncovered the information in the first place? The Yahoo philosophy: prominently highlight the source material while guiding people toward valuable info. → Kat brought a publisher’s lens to her conversation with Alex Chao on the Humans of AI Podcast about building an AI-powered newsroom without losing the editorial judgment, trust, and human perspective. → In Eric’s own episode of the podcast, he shared why AI’s widespread accessibility motivates him – and why our responsibility to the “social contract” matters more than ever.  Watch both episodes for more Ai4 takeaways 👇 Kat: https://lnkd.in/ewmC_7V9  Eric: https://lnkd.in/eW9siQwy

Phone: down ❌ Popcorn: popped 🍿 Weekend plans: made 🎞️ Earlier this year, Yahoo Media Group and Nonfiction Hotlist put out an open call with a simple promise: share an amazing story, we’ll get it seen. Nearly 1,000 nonfiction filmmakers from around the world answered. 20 of their films made the final list. Now, they’re free to stream: https://lnkd.in/g87NRvBh But we know short films deserve big screens. If you’re in the NY tri-state area, come to our first-ever Yahoo x Nonfiction Hotlist Film Festival on Aug. 22-23 at American Dream. Admission is free. Full details:  https://lnkd.in/g5e9F4BV

Got your thumb ready? 👍 If you’re curious about what Yahoo has been up to, we’ve got a few things for your weekend scrolling. → Yahoo Finance GM George Leimer spoke with Fortune about how AI is changing the way we work 🍔 and what it means when product teams can move faster than the speed of feedback: https://lnkd.in/eH4FUsJ3 → Yahoo Media Group President Ryan Spoon stepped into the TBPN Thunderdome to kick off 29 Days of Fantasy on Yahoo Sports: https://lnkd.in/enG-R26P → Head of Yahoo Creative Lab Kemma Kefalas wore her trusty Yahoo letterman jacket on Breaking and Entering Media & Entering Media with Jack Westerkamp and Geno Schellenberger to break down our Yahoo College Fantasy Football campaign with Robert Griffin III: https://lnkd.in/efd8CDHk   → The New York Times included Yahoo Finance in its roundup of favorite apps for on-the-go stock market tracking: https://lnkd.in/es3Q6hZC → Yahoo CMO Josh Line and RGIII went BTS (behind the scenes) of our BTS (back to school) campaign with Ad Age: https://lnkd.in/dykH-dJU

Here’s the latest edition of ⚒️ Built by Yahoo 🧰, a series exploring the tech, talent, and tactics modernizing our products. Today’s story details how we’re building a unified user profile, stitching trillions of user signals from across Yahoo into a single identity engine. This is helping the company transition from building functional products that surface information to one that will be able to deliver highly personal, agentic capabilities. As Yahoo GM of Platforms Ryan Massie says: "We have to enable each property to do the unique things they are great at while maintaining a common set of principles. Then, we can be aware that this user on Yahoo Sports is the same as that user on Yahoo Finance and enable that across all of Yahoo." Read the full story: https://lnkd.in/eiydzznH

ICYMI, it’s fantasy football season on Yahoo Sports 🏈

What part of the internet’s past would you bring into its future? A meme, a group, a memory? That's the question we asked artists, creatives, journalists, and internet enthusiasts over the weekend at FWB Fest, where we hosted a dinner themed “I 💜 the Internet: Building the Internet We Want in the Future.” Swipe to see what everyone shared around the campfire. Taylor Lorenz | Spencer Chang | Jessica Naziri | Modi O. | Samantha Leal | Nu Goteh | Sona Iliffe-Moon | Will Abramson