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The Feedly Cybersecurity API

Feedly for Cybersecurity includes an API that allows cybersecurity teams to share the threat intelligence they collect in Feedly with other applications.

150,000 cybersecurity professionals use Feedly to collect intelligence about the evolving threat landscape.

Threat research and collection are one step of the overall threat intelligence, investigation, and response.

The Feedly Cybersecurity API allows security teams to easily integrate the insights they collect in Feedly into other systems and applications. Some teams use the API to extract data about threats and vulnerabilities and feed larger machine learning threat-prioritization models. Some teams use the API to create Jira tickets based on the content of the Feedly boards to make sure that critical vulnerabilities are reviews and patched in a timely manner.

Access to the Feedly API (up to 200,000 requests per month) is an add-on included in the Enterprise Edition of the Feedly for Cybersecurity package.

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In this tutorial, we will show you how to use the Feedly API to access the content of your security feeds, your boards, and your Leo priorities.

Authentication

When you subscribe to Feedly for Cybersecurity Enterprise Edition, we will provide you with a special Feedly access token associated with your account. That token will allow you to access the content of your feeds, boards, and priorities and perform up to 200,000 requests per month.

Articles as JSON

The JSON representation of an article combines some of the open-source content included on the RSS or on the website, CVE/CVSS/Exploit information aggregated from vulnerability and exploit databases, as well as the results of the Leo cybersecurity models.

The title, content, and visual information give you access to the core of the content of the articles:

The commonTopics array represents Leo’s topic classification. The entities represent CVEs, products, or companies Leo has identified in the article. The CVE entity includes CVSS and exploits information extracted from vulnerability databases.

The estimatedCVSS represents the result of Leo’s CVSS scoring model. This is useful for zero-days and articles which do not mention a CVE explicitly. In those cases, Leo reads the content of the article and computes an approximative CVSS score based on the terminology used in the article or the tweet.

Pro tip: When you have an article open in the Feedly web application, you can use the Shift+D keyboard shortcut to see and inspect the JSON of the article.

Accessing the content of your feeds

Let’s imagine that you have a “Security News” feed which contains a list of known and trusted security sources you want to follow.

The Feedly API allows you to query Feedly and ask for the last 100 articles aggregated in that feed. The articles are normalized in a JSON format which includes the title, the content, the source information, as well as all some cybersecurity metadata (Leo topics classification, CVE metadata, CVSS metadata, exploit information.

You can use the Stream endpoint to get the last 100 articles published in a feed:

The most important parameter is the streamId. Each feed in your Feedly account has a unique stream id. When you select the feed in the left navigation bar, you see the streamId as part of the URL. The stream id is formatted as `enterprise/xxxx/category/xxxx` for team feeds and `user/xxxx/category/xxxx` for personal feeds.

The count parameter defines the number of articles the server will return. We recommend that you select a number between 20 and 100. If you need access to more than 100 articles, you can use the continuation parameter returned by the response to chain the requests and ask for the next 100 articles.

Finally, the importantOnly parameter allows you to get the list of articles in the stream that has been prioritized by Leo.

Troubleshooting tips:

Make sure that the requests you are making are authenticated using the token you have received from the Feedly team.
Make sure that the streamId is URL encoded when it is passed as a parameter to the Stream endpoint.

Accessing the content of your boards

Security teams use boards to bookmark critical articles everyone in the team should be aware of. They also often use boards to bookmark articles they want to share with other applications.

You can use the same Stream endpoint to access the last N articles manually bookmarked by your team to a board.

The only difference will be the streamId. Team Board streamIds are formatted as `enterprise/xxxx/tag/xxxx`. Personal Board streamIds are formatted as `user/xxxx/tag/xxxx`.

If users have annotated the articles with some notes and highlights while saving the article to a board, those notes and highlights will be included in the article JSON structure.

Example: Integrating Feedly with your ticketing system

Here is an example of how you can streamline the integration between the research and collection work of your threat intelligence team and the analysis and patching work of your operations team.

The research team creates a Feedly board called Critical Vulns where why bookmark articles related to critical vulnerabilities they want the operations team to be aware off and review.

Each time the research team finds a critical insight, they save that article in the Critical Vulns board, adding a note about why they think the vulnerability needs to be reviewed and patched.

Instead of asking the research team to manually create a ticket in your ticketing system (Jira, Service Now, etc.), you can write a small app which every 5 minutes connect to the Critical Vulns board, requests the last 20 articles bookmarked in that board, and for each new article, used the API of your ticketing system to create a new ticket. The app can enrich the ticket with the URL of the article saved in the board, the CVE information, and the notes and highlights from the researcher.

This is a powerful way to break the silos between your research team and your operations team and make sure that critical vulnerabilities are patched faster.

Pro tip: there is a simple solution to finding the new articles saved in a board. When your app processes a list of articles, it should save the first article in the list and the next time it uses the Stream Feedly app to get the latest articles bookmarked to a board, your app can use the newerThan parameter of the /v3/stream/content and pass that article id instead of a timestamp to get newer articles.

A lot more…

The Feedly web application and mobile applications are built on top of the Feedly API. This means that every piece of information available in the application and every action taken in the application is available in the API.

For more information about the Feedly API, please visit the Feedly Developer Website.

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We are excited to see many security teams use the Feedly API to streamline their open-source threat intelligence process. Sign up today and discover what Feedly for Cybersecurity can do for you!

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If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Leo Understands COVID-19

Look beyond the big headlines. Leo can show you exactly what’s happening to your industry as a result of COVID-19, or filter it out.

Coronavirus news is everywhere right now. It’s not so much a wave of information as an ocean. It’s easy to get overwhelmed or miss a crucial market development.

Or maybe you want to cut out the COVID-19 content altogether so you can find out what else is happening around the world.

So we’ve taught Leo, your AI research assistant, how to help.

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Mute or prioritize COVID-19 in your Feedly

Leo can already learn what you like to see and refine your Feedly. Now, he can mute or prioritize COVID-19 as well. And he does it across tens of millions of trusted sources.

It works just like Leo’s other prioritization parameters such as keywords, topics, and events. ‘Coronavirus’ and ‘COVID-19’ are just two of the terms he recognizes. Leo takes into account a variety of the virus’s other names, too, like SARS-CoV-2.

Once you give Leo a priority, you’ll get a specific view of how your industry is reacting to the pandemic. Then just save the most interesting articles in your Feedly Board.

You can mute or prioritize one feed, or every feed, and those feeds can be personal or spread across your team. It lets some team members focus on COVID-19 news if they need to, while others look beyond it.

Here’s a few examples to show how Leo’s coronavirus topic might work for you. After all, the virus is impacting every sector, whether you’re in retail, cyberspace, automotive or pharmaceuticals…

COVID-19 and biopharma

You’re a drug development director looking for news and insight around cardiovascular disease, and how COVID-19 is affecting this research.

Let’s imagine you have a cardiology feed in Feedly, and you’re following multiple science and medicine journals. Go to your cardiology feed and hit “Train Leo” in the right-hand corner. You can prioritize COVID-19 subjects by entering it as a topic.

The articles displayed are now all about coronavirus and cardiology.

Refine the priority further with +AND or +OR. Here’s some more information about Leo’s topic combinations.

COVID-19 and cybersecurity

You’re part of a large tech company. Security threats may have emerged during the pandemic, buried by the noise online.

Do the exact same thing. Click ‘Train Leo’ and enter COVID-19 as the topic.

You can see the most recent coronavirus-related articles from your sources in the preview. Choose whether to filter by Entire Content or titles that explicitly contain COVID-19 or its aliases.

New threats to your business can then be spotted and prepared for.

COVID-19 and retail

You’re a business intelligence analyst searching for COVID-19’s effects on stores and brands around the globe. Retail, one of the most disrupted sectors, is under intense scrutiny. The prioritization feature can help here too.

With a retail feed, you’ll preview countless pieces of content that tackle this subject.

Again, just create a Leo priority around COVID-19.

And that’s it. You have a feed at the intersection of two subjects, with plenty of room for more priorities and further refinement.

Muting COVID-19

You might want to look past COVID-19 instead, and keep it out of your feeds.

Muting is just as easy. Click ‘Train Leo’ and scroll to ‘Mute Filters’. Type in COVID-19. You’ll see a message asking which Feedly feeds you want to remove it from.

Here’s how it looks in a tech feed.

No more content on the topic will turn up in your Feedly, as long as the mute is active. It’s one of 1,000 pre-trained topics that Leo can mute right away.

Train Leo to prioritize or mute COVID-19 now

Whatever happens with coronavirus and your market, the trusted insights are here. Leo makes sure you’re never overwhelmed or struggling to see the big picture.

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If you’re interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, join the Feedly Community Slack channel. 2020 will be a challenging year, but by staying informed, you can respond better and remain in control.

Power Search across the Web

Find the exact content you’re looking for with super specific topics and publications

The internet is a cavernous place. Opinion and insight can emerge from anywhere. Whether you’re new to Feedly or not, you want good, trusted publishers to teach you more about a certain topic, market or industry.

Feedly already digests and presents updates from the sources you value. But to really stay ahead of the curve, it pays to search beyond the publishers you already follow – to the blogs, articles, reports, and debates that are turning heads, but almost buried among the noise online.

That’s why we’ve given Feedly the ability to look further with Power Search across the web. It drills down into the specific information you want to find beyond your existing feeds and sources.

In this way, you can learn something new, discover new sources for future reference and easily share reputable insights with your colleagues and social network. It intersects the exact content you’re looking for with super-specific topics and publications.

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Here’s what Power Search across the Web does, and how to use it.

Introducing Power Search across the web

Search is a relevance game. It’s easy to lose time in the wormhole of search engines. Meanwhile, the low hit rate of typical news aggregators and alert features can leave you pulling hairs out.

Feedly gets around this with a carefully vetted database of more than 40 million trusted web sources. Collectively, they publish 110 million articles, journals, and videos. on a daily basis.

But that’s still a crazy amount of info and analysis. So we help you refine this down with buckets – categories of publications that make a search super granular.

You can think of each bucket as a list of trusted publications that focus on a specific industry, function or topic. They tell the search exactly what to filter. You get hyper-relevant content that can be saved to a Feedly board and shared with your team or out into the wider world. Six popular buckets are surfaced automatically yet other, more narrow buckets can be chosen – we’ll show you how to do this later in our guide.

Discover what trade publications are saying about a company. Track topics on strategy sources. Bring up the conversation around a product in business magazines. The knowledge is yours to shape and tinker with.

Run-through

Okay, let’s imagine you’re part of the Innovation Hub at Aéroports de Paris. You’re looking for ground-breaking stories and reports about the airline industry.

First, click on the search icon to open Power Search, select the new Across the web tab, and search for the airlines topic.

You get instant access to highly relevant articles from expert and trusted sources.

You can also search for companies, people, products, or other keywords you are interested in.

Narrow to specific publications

The initial search is performed against a set of default buckets: strategy magazines, trade publications, business magazines, and tech blogs.

But you can narrow your search to a specific slice of the web. Click on +PUBLICATIONS and lookup energy for example. This is a powerful way to find articles about airlines across a broad set of energy publications.

Refine your query with Leo topics and business events

You can refine your query by adding additional parameters (topics or business events) using the +AND operator.

For example, you can easily search for product launches related to the airline industry by combining the airlines smart topic and the product launch business event

Cut through the noise with Exclude

Okay, now let’s remove some results you 100% don’t want to find. For instance, any mention of COVID-19…

The Exclude feature allows you to filter out specific topics or keywords from the search results. Click on Exclude > +Topic and enter COVID-19.

Advanced mode

If you are a power user, you can use the Title Only knob to let Feedly know if you want to search only in the title of articles or the entire content.

The where on the web feature also includes a funnel button gives you more control over which publications should be included in the buckets. Pick leading publications if you are searching for a popular term and pick all publications if you are searching for a niche topic and you want your search to be as broad as possible.

Make your Feedly better

Once you’ve discovered a great new article, you can click on the source name and see the other articles that the source has published. This is a powerful way to find new sources for niche topics.

If the content is highly relevant, you can use the +FOLLOW button to add that new source to one of your Feedly feeds and receive the next articles published by that source.

Your turn

15 million users are already using Feedly for their own trade and market analysis. Ready to join them?

Cut to the heart of what matters. Set up your Feedly account today.

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Save PDFs To Your Feedly Boards

Bookmark, annotate and share PDF documents on Feedly

You may know your way around our Feedly Boards already. They’re a place to save useful insights you’ve found in Feedly or around the web, and share them as newsletters with your teammates.

But insights can come from many kinds of media, including market reports, conference brochures, presentation decks, or whitepapers packed with industry knowledge. Typically, these exist in a PDF format.

Now, you can save PDFs to your Feedly Boards, so nothing is left out for a deep-dive understanding of a subject.

Run-through

Let’s suppose you’re an analyst for JP Morgan, learning about breaking developments in financial services. Here’s how to add the PDFs you find to your Boards.

Say you come across a fantastic online market report. In this case, it’s all about the technologies set to disrupt financial services in the near future.

Copy the URL from the browser URL bar.

Then, return to your Feedly Board, choose + ADD STORY, and paste the URL.

Feedly will extract the PDF’s title automatically from metadata or the name of the file. You can also shorten and change the title yourself.

Before you can save a story to a Board, add a summary.

Summaries show your team what they’re about to read and why it matters. They’ll also show up your Team Newsletter.

Write your own, or do as we’ve done here and copy the first paragraph of the report’s summary.

Once you’re done, click ‘Save To Board’.

The Board should now have your PDF at the top.

It’ll stay there for anyone in your team to view and comment on. Add as many PDFs as you want to populate the Board, so you can easily access all the reference points you need in one place.

If your board is configured with a team newsletter or a Slack or Microsoft Teams notification, the PDF link will be automatically included and shared with your teammates.

Your turn

Follow these steps to add slides, brochures, guides, market reports and more to your Boards. Now that you can save any insights you come across, you can be sure that crucial information never escapes you or your team when building a fuller picture of a topic.

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Get more out of Feedly now with Team Newsletters when you upgrade to our Business plan. You’ll also get additional Boards, sources and sharing functionalities.

Mute Market Reports with Leo

Remove market reports, so that you can focus on only the topics and trends that matter to you, without the noise

We heard from lots of users that market reports can be a considerable source of noise when you track company updates.

We are excited to announce a new Market Reports topic.

We have taught Leo to identify market reports so that you can easily mute them from your feeds and save time. Leo recognizes market reports as any article that is either an ad for buying a market report or a sample of a market report.

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Quick Demo

Let’s imagine you have keyword alerts to track updates about various health companies such as Amgen, Novartis, and 23&Me.

As you can see, a considerable amount of these articles are market reports.

Let’s train Leo to read this feed and filter out all the noisy market reports.

You can create a new Leo mute filter by click on the Train Leo button and selecting the Mute Filters skill.

In the Mute Filters editor, search and select the Market Reports smart topic.

You can see a preview of all the articles that Leo has read and recognized as Market Reports.

Leo will continuously read your feed and remove market reports, letting you focus on the topics and trends that matter to you.

The Leo Market Report mute filter helps us cut through the noise and track company updates a lot more efficiently.

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We are excited to see how many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

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If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Feedly’s 25 Keyboard Shortcuts

A cheat sheet to master time saving for shortcut lovers

At Feedly, we’re passionate about saving you time. Even seconds. So here’s another useful tip to speed up your reading flow!

When you press “?” anywhere in Feedly, you’ll see a list of all available keyboard shortcuts.

Here are all 25 shortcuts at a glance:

Backed by popular requests from the community, today we introduce 2 new shortcuts: gg and t

gg – Jump to… Anywhere You Want

If you have hundreds of sources packed inside a dozen feeds, gg will be a simple way to search and navigate specific sources and feeds.

t – Save to Board

When you find an interesting article and want to save it to your boards – the shortcut t comes in handy.

Wisdom from the Community

We take your feedback close to our hearts. Let’s team up on our journey to continuously improve your Feedly experience by joining the Feedly Community Slack channel.

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Leo and Summarization

Ask Leo to read the articles in your feeds and highlight crucial sentences

Reading through a large number of articles every day can be time-consuming, especially if those articles are long.

Helping you save time is a problem we are very passionate about, so we are excited to release today a new Leo skill called Summarization.

We have taught Leo to read and summarize the articles in your feeds so that you can more efficiently scan through articles and determine which ones are relevant.

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Demo

Leo automatically reads all the articles in your feeds and summarizes them.

Articles lists showcase those Leo summaries as articles descriptions.

When you open an article, Leo also highlights the key sentences which are part of the summary. The goal is to help you get to the key insights more efficiently.

Board newsletters and slack integration also take advantage of the Leo summaries for the article descriptions.

Available Now

The Leo Summarization skill is available now to all users in the Pro+ and Business plans.

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If you prefer not to see the blue highlights, you can turn them off via the Leo Summary Highlights preference.

If you have feedback about the Leo Summarization skill, you are welcome to join the Feedly Lab slack channel and discuss it with the product team.

Leo and Topics

Leo lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds

Broad business and tech publications produce hundreds of articles per week. Not all those articles are relevant to the topics, companies, or products you care about. Manually filtering out the noise can be overwhelming and time-consuming.

Relevance is a problem we are very passionate about. We have spent the last two years designing and building Leo, your AI research assistant to help declutter your feeds and save time.

Unlike opaque recommendation engines, Leo has a set of skills that let you define and control what is relevant to you.

We are excited to show you how the Leo Topic skill lets you track specific topics, companies, and keywords in your feeds.

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Let’s get started!

Companies, people, and products

Leo knows about all the companies, people, and products listed in Wikipedia and in the news. You can ask Leo to look for any of those named entities (and their known aliases) and prioritize articles that are a match.

You can, for example, look for mentions of your competitors or prospects in your industry or tech feeds.

Smart Topics

Leo understands how to recognize articles about hundreds of “smart” topics (like artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, blockchain, energy, health, etc..). He’ll be looking for thousands of different terms related to that smart topic. We designed smart topics because an article can be about artificial intelligence without including the term “artificial intelligence”.

We continuously teach Leo new smart topics. If there is a specific topic you would like to sponsor, please email leo@feedly.com

Keyword matches

You can also ask Leo to look for exact matches of a keyword you are interested in. In this mode, Leo behaves like a saved search.

Refine with AND and OR

You can design more sophisticated priorities by combining multiple topics using AND and OR. AND means that both of the topics need to be present. OR means that either of the topics needs to be present.

Combine with other skills

The topic skill can be composed with all the other Leo skills allowing you, for example, to easily prioritize articles that reference a product launch (business event skill) while also being related to #artificial intelligence (topic skill)

Or high severity software vulnerabilities (cybersecurity skill) related to docker (topic skill)

Continuously learning

You can use the Leo “less like this” down arrow to correct Leo when a topic detection is incorrect. This feedback is channeled to the Feedly ML Team and to the datasets used to train Leo, making topics increasingly more accurate and relevant over time.

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We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

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If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Leo understands funding events, product launches, and partnership announcements

Easily track key business events like funding events, product launches, or partnerships.

Industries are changing at a faster pace than ever. Keeping up with new threats and opportunities can be overwhelming and time-consuming.

Today, we’re excited to announce a new Leo skill that lets you easily track key business events like funding events, product launches, or partnerships.

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Here’s a quick demo:

Funding Events

We have trained Leo to detect and understand funding events. This means that you can now ask Leo to read your tech, business or industry-specific feed and prioritize articles related to funding events – saving you a tremendous amount of time.

Product Launches

We have also trained Leo to detect and understand product launches.

Analysts and marketers can now train Leo to read their trusted industry publications and alert them when competitors launch new products in their space.

Partnership Announcements

Finally, you can also easily prioritize the fraction of articles referencing partnership announcements.

You are In Control

Business Events become even more potent once you combine them with other Leo skills.

For example, you can train Leo to prioritize articles referencing a product launch (business event skill) and related to #artificial intelligence (topic skill).

Continuously Learning

You can use the Leo prompt or the “less like this” down arrow to correct Leo when the event detection is incorrect. This feedback helps make Leo continuously smarter.

Trained across 24 industries

Different industries use different vocabulary to describe these business events so we trained Leo across 24 different industries.

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We are excited to see many Feedly users declutter their feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends that matter to them. Sign up today and discover what Leo can do for you!

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If you are interested in learning more about Leo’s roadmap, you can join the Feedly Community Slack. 2020 will be a thrilling year with new skills and bold experiments!

Meet Leo, your AI Research Assistant

People love RSS because it lets you to aggregate in one place all the topics and information you care about. No more zigzagging.

People also love RSS because of its control and transparency. It is not a feed that tries to manipulate and monetize your attention. It is a feed that feeds your mind and makes you smarter.

But sometimes RSS feeds can become noisy.

For example, you might follow broad sources like Forbes but only care about narrow topics like FinTech or climate change. Or you might have a keyword alert for General Electric but only care about product launches and partnerships. Or you might have a cybersecurity feed but want to focus your attention on the most critical software vulnerabilities first.

That noise can be overwhelming and make you waste time.

This is a problem we are very passionate about and have been focusing on over the last 18 months.

Today, we are excited to announce Leo, your AI research assistant.

We have been teaching Leo how to read so that he can help you declutter your feeds and dig deeper into the topics and trends you care about without losing control.

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Here is a demo!

Leo continuously reads your feeds and short-lists the most relevant articles in the priority tab.

For example, you might have a broad business feed connected to HBR, Bloomberg, NY Times, etc. with thousands of new articles per month.

You can train Leo to read those 1,000+ articles and prioritize the 30 or so related to specific companies (Slack), topics (#leadership) or trends (Facebook and #crypto) you care about.

Leo is not a black box recommendation engine. Instead, Leo ships with a set of skills that gives you control over defining what information is important to you:

The Topic skill lets you prioritize mentions of topics, keywords, people, companies, products, etc.
The Like Board skill learns by example based on articles you’ve saved to boards and prioritizes similar articles
The Business Event skill lets you track product launches, funding events, partnerships, etc.
The Security Threat skill lets you prioritize articles related to critical software vulnerabilities and specific vendors.
The Mute Filter skill let you remove articles mentioning specific keywords and topics.
The Deduplication skill removes duplicate articles from feeds and keyword alerts

You can easily assemble these skills into Leo models and preview in real-time what kind of information Leo will prioritize.

Control and transparency are core Leo design principles.

All the articles prioritized by Leo have a green priority marker. Clicking on that marker offers an explanation of why the article was prioritized and the opportunity to refine, pause or remove that priority.

Leo learns from both positive and negative feedback:

When a recommendation is useful, you can save it to a board to send Leo a positive signal.
When a recommendation is not useful, you can use the “Less-Like-This” down arrow button to correct Leo.

Leo learns from your feedback and gets continuously smarter!

GET EARLY ACCESS TO LEO

Leo is generally available to all Feedly Teams users and in early access to Pro+ users. If you have any questions or feedback regarding Leo, you are welcome to join the Feedly Lab Slack and connect with the dev team.