Spotify and Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a licensing deal that will allow users to prompt the creation of AI-generated remixes and covers for streaming songs. The tool will be a paid add-on for Premium subscribers. Artists will be able to opt out of the program, but those who do participate will collect royalties on these AI remixes.
In October of last year, Spotify announced that it was working with UMG, as well as other major labels, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Merlin, and Believe, to create "responsible AI products." At the time, it was unclear exactly what that meant. But this appears to be the first product of that p …
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Studio by Spotify Labs is a new standalone AI app that generates a daily briefing, podcasts, and playlists on your PC using chatbot prompts. The AI-generated content draws from your Spotify listening history, as well as info from apps you connect to it, like your email inbox, calendar, and notes. Spotify says its AI can also "take action on your behalf," such as "researching topics, using a web browser, organizing information, and helping complete tasks."
Any content you generate in Studio, like a daily briefing podcast, can be saved to your Spotify library. It will be launching "in the coming weeks" as a research preview for users 18 and …
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Drake’s ninth studio album Iceman dropped at midnight ET on May 15, and within hours the most informative place to watch the market digest it wasn’t Spotify’s trending tab or Billboard’s pre-print — it was Polymarket. The crypto-collateralized prediction market platform is currently hosting 11 active Iceman markets and 139 active Drake markets, with cumulative volume north of $24 million. Two of those charts tell the story of release week with unusual clarity. Drake Iceman sales, Source: Polymarket Pricing first-week sales in real time The first-week sales market, which buckets equivalent units in 50,000-unit increments and resolves after Hits Daily Double publishes debut figures, swung wildly across the release window. The market-implied first-week number climbed from around 500,000 in early May to a peak near 548,000 in the run-up to launch, crashed to roughly
London-based CodeWords has raised €7.6 million in a seed round led by Visionaries, with participation from Firstminute Capital, Sequel, and Illusian, alongside angel investors including the CEOs of Miro, ElevenLabs, Personio, Zalando, and Supercell, plus leaders from OpenAI and Mistral. Founded by Aymeric Zhuo and Osman Ramadan, the company builds Cody, an AI agent that […]
Spotify has expanded its interactive AI DJ feature to four new languages — French, German, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese — alongside launches in Austria, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, South Korea, and Switzerland. The feature is now available in more than 75 countries, having previously been limited to English and Spanish. Each new language version comes with a distinct […]
Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it through their AI of choice to create audio summaries and personal podcasts, this lets you save them right alongside the latest episode of The Vergecast and Welcome to Night Vale on Spotify.
To set it up, you need to download and install the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub. Then you just prompt your AI agent as normal, but tack on "and save to Spotify," and it should show up right in your podcast feed. In the blog post announcing the feature, S …
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