What's New in Arc Intelligence
Discover the latest updates to Arc XP's Arc Intelligence application.
AI Editor
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, December 11, 2024
Release summary
AI Editor 1.1.7 introduces the ability to set a monthly spend limit to control your variable requests costs. To learn more, see Setting a Monthly Spend Limit for AI Requests.
Users affected
AI Editor users in Composers
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, November 20, 2024
Release summary
This release includes two new features available in the Core package:
Translations - A new button within the AI Editor to easily translate your story into any language
Text-To-Speech - A new button within the AI Editor to turn your text story into an audio article (Sandbox preview only)
To learn more about how to use Translations and Text-to-Speech in AI Editor, visit AI Editor Core package.
This release also includes AI Settings in Global Settings, which allows an AI Admin to change the default models and prompts used within the AI Editor, and also generate custom prompts that show as new buttons within the AI Editor. To learn more about AI Settings in Global settings, visit Configuring Arc Intelligence settings.
Users affected
AI Editor users in Composer
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Release summary
This release delivers improved translation strings for greater accuracy after linguistic review.
Users affected
AI Editor users in Composer
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Wednesday, October 23, 2024
Release summary
This release offers a few minor updates:
The recommended buttons now align with AI API 2.1.0 changes
We fixed a security issue when checking the URL to determine whether the user is on a valid site for the extension
A box shadow no longer appears on the Composer v1 launch button
Users affected
AI Editor users in Composer
Action required
None
Release dates
Sandbox and Production - Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Release summary
This release offers support for right-to-left languages.
Users affected
AI Editor users in Composer
Action required
None
Release Dates
Production - Monday, Sep 16, 2024
Release Summary
This release fixes an issue where a loading spinner occurred on errors. Now, an error message will show when an error occurs.
Users affected
All AI Editor Users in Composer
Action Required
None
Release Dates
Production - Wednesday Aug 07, 2024
Release Summary
Create and distribute content more efficiently using AI
Arc XP’s AI-powered tools help you create content faster and distribute more efficiently - while keeping humans “in the loop” to control quality. Use AI to accelerate:
Translation
Summarization
Story tagging
Social post creation
Content recommendations
This release allows customers who have purchased Arc XP Intelligence to begin to use the AI Editor in production. After you install the extension to Google Chrome, you will see the new tool in the right nav of Composer. See the user guide for more.
Users affected
All Composer Users
Action Required
None
Clavis
Release dates
Sandbox: Thursday, April 13, 2023
Production: Thursday, April 13, 2023
Release schedule by region:
Sydney: 8:00 AM to 11:00 AM Eastern Time
Tokyo: 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Washington, D.C.: 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM Eastern Time
Frankfurt: 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM Eastern Time
Release summary
Clavis now includes fallback logic for recommendations. When you publish a new story that includes a Clavis recommendations block, a period of time exists where the model needs to capture events in order to return recommendations. During this time, Clavis has the potential to not return any recommendations, resulting in an undesirable user experience. The new fallback logic that we're introducing prevents this by falling back to the most popular stories until the model returns recommendations.
Expected Behavior
When a recently-published story has a Clavis recommendations block on the page, the following events occur:
As users visit the page, Clavis triggers the recommendations endpoint.
If the response contains no recommendations, Clavis reverts to display the most popular stories over the last 24 hours beginning with the sixth most popular story.
If the response does contain recommendations, Clavis returns recommended content from the last 60 days, based on display date.
Users affected
Clavis users
Action required
None
Release Dates
Sandbox: Thursday, February 16, 2023, during regional change windows
Production: Tuesday, February 21, 2023, during regional change windows
Recommendations Endpoint Updates
This release introduces two minor adjustments to the Recommendations endpoint algorithm to curate better responses:
We updated the algorithm to use use display_date as the basis for recommendations rather than publish_date. This helps to filter out older articles that were recently modified.
We updated the timeframe to 60 days rather than 30 days. This helps to ensure enough recommendations are being returned.
Release Dates
Sandbox: Tuesday, January 17, 2023, during regional change windows
Production: Thursday, January 19, 2023, during regional change windows
Note
Because this is a maintenance-only release and there is no client environment testing required, the Sandbox window is brief (48 hours).
This release is a maintenance release that makes adjustments to the Trending endpoint algorithm released in 3.1.6. We expect this endpoint to become available for consumption in Q1.
Trending Endpoint Updates
This release includes updates to the trending algorithm that will become available for consumption later in Q1.
After this release, we will continue to evaluate the quality of Trending endpoint responses. In the future, we'll make any changes necessary and will have an additional release to allow you to use Trending on homepages or section fronts.
As this is a maintenance release, we expect no customer changes to the current Clavis features or operation.
Release Dates
Sandbox: Tuesday, December 13, 2022, during regional change windows
Production: Thursday, December 15, 2022, during regional change windows
Note
Because this is a maintenance-only release and no client environment testing is required, the Sandbox window will be brief (48 hours).
This release is a maintenance release that will enable additional data collection for two future use cases:
1) Trending Endpoint
To offer a Trending endpoint in Q1, this release begins to calculate additional metrics on events. This includes an algorithm that inputs the number of interactions over a set period of hours (for instance, 8 hours) for articles within a certain publish range (for instance, the last 8 days) generated at a specific interval (for instance, every 15 minutes).
From this release, we're able to evaluate the quality of Trending endpoint responses. In the future, we'll make any necessary changes and have an additional release to allow you to use Trending on homepages or section fronts.
2) Click Thru Rate
To prepare for a future Clavis Admin dashboard, this release begins to collect additional metrics on interaction and non-interaction events, including clicks and impressions of Clavis endpoint responses, to generate a click-thru rate on a per-article basis.
As this is a maintenance release, we expect no customer changes to the current Clavis features or operation.
Release Dates
Sandbox: Tuesday, October 11, 2022, during regional change windows
Production: Tuesday, October 25, 2022, during regional change windows
The latest Clavis release includes two new features:
Replacing Axios with Fetch
In order to optimize the Clavis bundle size, we are updating the SDK code to use fetch, eliminating the dependency on loading an axios library. If you are loading axios alongside your Clavis implementation, you may remove it after this release to improve performance.
Filter Popularity Results by Section
Now you can consume Popularity endpoint and specify a section to which the retrieved articles should belong to. This can be used to populate a most popular list on Section fronts.
How to Use
We’ve updated both Clavis’ SDK and API to consider this new feature, adding a new parameter section to specify the section of the recommended articles.
Notice that if you have a section called “/sports” for an article in Composer, you can filter by that section by just passing “sports” as the section. Likewise, if the section in Composer is called “/sports/basketball/nba”, the articles belonging to that section will be included if you pass “sports” as the section. That’s because Clavis filters checking if the provided section string is contained in the article’s section string. For this example and in terms of regular expressions, the regular expression would be /sports/.
SDK Update
Now, recommendationsByPopularity admits one additional parameter, section, that can be used as follows (limit, section):
clavis.recommendationsByPopularity(3, “sports”)
API Update
Same as in the SDK, using Clavis API you can specify the section of the Popularity recommendations:
/clavis/training/site/[sitename]/documents/recommendations?section=sports