Opera debuted its Opera News service in January 2017, based on AIRE, which uses artificial intelligence to distribute and recommend content and is available as an integrated feature of Opera's mobile browser.

As of the end of June 2020, Opera had 360 million monthly active users worldwide, including 226 million on smartphones and 75 million on desktop.Opera's artificial intelligence content recommendation engine, Opera News, went live in the Opera browser in January 2017, and as of June 2020, the Opera News platform had a cumulative total of over 205 million MAUs, representing 26% year-over-year growth.

Opera News uses self-developed AI technology to recommend news, articles, videos and other online content that may be of interest to users. Users can easily access relevant content through real-time intelligent ranking, top stories and push features.

Opera News uses technologies such as natural language processing to quickly handle linguistic differences to evaluate and recommend online content across languages and cultures. Users can effectively discover, save and share online content that interests them.

Opera News is a personalized news aggregator that keeps you up to date with local and national headlines. It highlights a variety of the latest news and provides more stories that are important to users! With local and national news and highlights pushed to you. With daily breaking news, be the first to get all the latest updates on breaking local news and national news. Personalized content: Opera News is powered by its powerful AI news engine that delivers real-time, personalized content based on users' interests. Select a news category and topic to see the relevant news for the user. The more often the app is used, the better it becomes. News push notifications receive important breaking news alerts directly on the home screen and keep up with what's happening around the user. opera News now has a search bar that suggests trending articles and allows you to search for specific topics or people to read or follow.