Yahoo! acquires ‘Artifact’ and integrates its Recommendation Engine into Yahoo! News
‘Artifact‘ was a news aggregation platform founded in 2023 by Instagram cofounders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In January 2024, Artifact announced that it would...
AliExpress faces DSA investigations as the first marketplace in Europe
We reported about the Digital Service Act (DSA) and its implications for recommendations and e-commerce previously. As the European Commission reports, there is now the...
Case Study on how VistaPrint uses Amazon Personalize for product recommendations
Nothing mind-blowing, but a nice read if you have some time: A blog post by VistaPrint on how they use Amazon Personalize for creating personalized...
The ‘ACM TORS’ journal had a successful first-year
ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (ACM TORS) had a successful first year. Since March 2023 four issues have been published....
Will Spotify soon allow users to disable personalized recommendations?
MacRumors reports that one of their readers found an option to disable personalized recommendations in Spotify’s Beta code. Spotify is exploring a new option that...
‘Recsperts’ releases its 20th episode; This time on Practical Bandids and Travel Recommendations
Recsperts is becoming a constant entity in the recommender system community. A few days ago, almost exactly 2 years after its launch, Recspert released its...
“Recommender Systems – Frontiers in Big Data” has published 18 articles since its launch
We regularly report about the ACM TORS journal, but there is another journal for recommender systems research: The “Recommender Systems” journal that is part of...
When will the ACM RecSys Conference have a rebuttal phase (again)?
Update 2024-02-26: I just learned that the ACM RecSys Conference 2024 will also have a rebuttal period. Awesome! NeurIPS has it, the AutoML Conference has...
Andrew Ng introduces a new (free) course on Vector Databases by Sebastian Witalec
Update 2023-11-16: I attended the course, and, unfortunately, am not very convinced. The course is rather superficial and in the beginning, many basic details are...
Netflix creates personalized “Sizzles” (video previews)
Netflix announced that it is now personalizing the sizzles in the user interface. A sizzle reel is “a montage of video clips from different titles...