Spotify introduces new Playlist Creator with AI
Spotify is rolling out a new feature in the UK and Australia. Users can create “AI Playlists”, i.e. a user types a prompt such as...
RecSys Workshops at SIGIR 2024
The SIGIR 2024 — the 47th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval — is taking place in July in Washington....
Yes! In 2024, there will be another Summer School on Recommender Systems (in Bari, Italy)
Once in a while, there are recommender-systems summer schools co-located with the ACM Recommender Systems Conference. Also, this year, there will be a summer school...
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...