Spotify is making a bigger move into artificial intelligence with new tools designed to turn prompts, personal information, and connected apps into private audio experiences. The company is launching Studio by Spotify Labs, a standalone desktop app that lets users create AI-generated podcasts, daily briefings, and playlists using simple chatbot-style prompts. This shows Spotify is not just trying to be a place where people listen to music and podcasts, but also a platform whe

Google and OpenAI escalated their rivalry at the forefront of artificial intelligence on the same day, with Google unveiling its most advanced AI research agent yet just as OpenAI released GPT 5.2, codenamed Garlic. Google’s announcement centered on a major upgrade to Gemini Deep Research, which it described as a reimagined agent capable of long form reasoning, complex analysis, and enterprise grade investigation rather than simply generating research reports. The closely t