AI is coming to enrich your daily experience on Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports.
Today, Yahoo is debuting two game-changing, AI-powered experiences that blow up the old, fragmented way you research stocks and prep for the NBA draft.
Powered by our proprietary AI engine, Yahoo Scout, these tools are being embedded directly into the DNA of Yahoo Finance and Yahoo Sports.
I’m not talking about forcing you into some separate, clunky tab. This is about meeting hundreds of millions of investors and sports fans where they are and delivering invaluable insights in real time.
Let’s start on the finance side, because as an investor, your time is literally money.
For decades, the process of analyzing a stock meant a grueling, multi-tab marathon—piecing together earnings data here, scouring breaking news there, and hunting for macro trends across the internet. Somewhere, you would find a price-to-earnings ratio, then open up another tab to see how it aligns with a company’s free cash flow trend.
Enter “Ask Yahoo Scout” on Yahoo Finance.
Available right now inside select stock quote pages and news articles, this AI powerhouse instantly understands the exact context of what you are researching.
You can fire off complex questions about stocks or corporate balance sheets, and Scout will serve up contextual answers sourced directly from Yahoo Finance data and authoritative sources across the web. It streamlines your entire research workflow!
I’ve been using Scout internally for months — and now on our new AlphaSpace platform — and it’s best in class. If I had to guess, using Scout has saved me a gazillion minutes over the past three months in assessing stocks and markets.
But the Yahoo team didn’t stop there. The team is unleashing this exact same algorithmic firepower just in time for the NBA Draft on June 23 and 24.
Right now, hoops fans are drowning in data, trying to prep their big boards. Our Yahoo Sports NBA Draft guide is already the gold standard — packed with mock drafts, team-fit analysis, and deep-dive prospect breakdowns. But navigating that mountain of content across endless filters can be a headache.
That is why we are launching “Ask Kevin O’Connor.”
Before I explain, Kevin O’Connor, senior NBA analyst at Yahoo Sports, is the man —give him a follow on X. If you want to understand the NBA at its core and be entertained while doing so, you follow Kevin.
And now you can basically talk to him directly on Yahoo Sports!
By feeding Yahoo Scout his extensive analysis, written coverage, broadcast shows, and deep analytical databases, Yahoo has built an interactive experience that lets you converse directly with KOC’s unrivaled basketball brain. It’s like having a direct lifeline to me after I finish interviewing a billionaire CEO, if investing is your game.
