Spotify takes on Google’s NotebookLM with its new app

Key points

• One of the common features for companies to build in the age of AI is to connect services like email, calendar, documents, and notes to create a daily brief in text or audio format.
• Spotify is also giving in to this temptation and releasing a new standalone desktop app called Studio by Spotify Labs for this purpose.
• Today, the company released the ability for users to explore a topic by creating a podcast about it.
• Spotify is also adding personal context to this podcast generation tool.
• And, because in 2026 companies can’t refrain from adding agents to their apps, the new Studio app has an agent that can browse the web and fetch personal information to create a personal podcast.