Spotify adds AI-powered Q&A and briefing generation features to podcasts

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For users, Spotify has been a place to consume podcasts made by other creators. The company wants to change that by introducing a personal podcast feature, which uses AI to generate podcasts for users based on an idea or a custom prompt.

Earlier this month, the company released a GitHub-based command-line tool for Claude Code and Codex that allows users to create a podcast and save it to their own Spotify library. The company said that, soon, users would be able to create podcasts directly within the Spotify app. They can also schedule them to create daily or weekly briefs for topics they have a recurring interest in. Plus, they can also create one-off podcasts to understand a topic.

Users can make a request like “Share my daily city updates, and tell me about local concerts from artists I love,” or “Help me understand economics in five minutes,” to create...

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