Yahoo Scout

Yahoo Scout is an AI chat assistant that saves conversations and accesses chat history.

Yahoo Scout is Yahoo's AI answer engine, launched in beta on January 27, 2026. You ask a question and it replies with a summary drawn from the web and from Yahoo's news and finance content, with links to its sources, and you can keep asking follow-ups. It is available as a standalone site and app and inside the Yahoo Search app, and its main underlying model is Anthropic's Claude. It is free and focused on the US.

Yahoo Scout at a glance

Best for: Student, Researcher, Finance
Runs on: Web, iOS, Android
Pricing: Free.
Released: January 2026
Category: AI search engine
Website: scout.yahoo.com

Key features

Answers questions with sourced summaries
Draws on Yahoo News and Yahoo Finance
Follow-up questions in a chat
Standalone site and app, plus the Yahoo Search app

Use it for

Quick answers about news and current events
Looking up companies, stocks and markets
Everyday research questions

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