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

Key points

• 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.