Yahoo CEO: The first thing every AI agent asks is to be let into your email | Invest 2026
Yahoo chief executive Jim Lanzone tells Brian Sozzi that the first generation of AI agent products all open the same way, by asking to be let into your email, and that trust of that kind is earned over decades and can go away overnight. He argues the bigger problem for publishers is not agents but answer engines, and makes the case that an answer engine owes a link back to whoever it learned from. Yahoo is 31 years old, serves about 700 million people a month, and launched its own search engine this year for the first time in 17 years. Figures here are his own.
Featuring:
Jim Lanzone, Chief Executive Officer, Yahoo
Brian Sozzi, Executive Editor, Yahoo Finance
Watch the full day of Yahoo Finance Invest: https://youtube.com/live/rAYVxDJYeAc
Timestamps
0:00 The state of Yahoo, five years after the spinout
1:23 The first six months, and not arriving with prejudgments
2:31 Where the turnaround playbook came from
3:38 “Do you think we’re an underdog?”
5:25 Why trust takes 31 years to build and one night to lose
6:55 “Please let us in. Give us your email”
8:07 The two levers of growth, and what Yahoo is actually for
9:30 College fantasy football, and a search engine after 17 years
11:13 What agents do to publishers
12:47 “They owe it to you”
14:17 What a company like this is worth
#AI #Yahoo #Publishing #YahooFinance
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