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Artifact, the news app created by Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, is shutting down just a year after launch<\/a>. The app used an AI-driven approach to suggest news that users might like to read, but it seems it didn\u2019t catch on with enough people for the Artifact team to continue making the app.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cWe have built something that a core group of users love, but we have concluded that the market opportunity isn\u2019t big enough to warrant continued investment in this way,\u201d CEO Kevin Systrom says in a blog post<\/a>. The app is beginning to wind down today. Users can no longer add new comments or posts, and Artifact will still let you read news \u201cthrough the end of February.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Systrom says the team of eight people working on Artifact \u201cwill go our separate ways.\u201d He adds that he\u2019s \u201cpersonally excited to continue building new things\u201d and says that the opportunities for new ideas in the realm of AI \u201cseem limitless.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n