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

OpenAI’s latest AI models developed an unexpected habit: talking about goblins. After users and employees noticed ChatGPT and related tools using odd creature-based metaphors, OpenAI investigated why words like “goblin,” “gremlin,” and even references to raccoons, trolls, ogres, and pigeons were appearing more often in responses. What started as a strange but mostly harmless language quirk became a useful example of how AI training can accidentally reward and spread unusual b

Anthropic is pushing AI coding assistants into the place developers already live all day: team chat. On December 8, 2025, the company announced a beta “research preview” that brings Claude Code into Slack, letting developers delegate real coding tasks directly from a conversation thread instead of bouncing between Slack and an IDE. The shift matters because the competitive edge is starting to look less like raw model quality and more like workflow ownership, meaning who can