Spotify has used its 2026 Investor Day to introduce new features, including a desktop app built around AI. The company’s new Studio by Spotify Labs is effectively a NotebookLM for audio that integrates the streaming service into your daily routine.
The new software can generate audio that’s not only in sync with your calendar, emails, and notes, but also draws on research and can use your web browser. It can build a music playlist for your upcoming road trip, personalize a daily briefing podcast for that day, and even recommend a place for dinner when you arrive.
Spotify is letting you control the algorithm with new Prompted Playlists
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The app uses chatbot-style conversations, so you can make requests in natural language and make hard-to-quantify changes like the “vibe” of your audio selections. Spotify stresses that its app only acts with your permission and cautions that the generative AI can still make mistakes.
Studio is coming as a “Research Preview” to some adult Spotify users in 20-plus countries. The company hasn’t said if or when a finished version or mobile support might be available. However, the goal is already clear: Spotify wants its service to feel essential, making it that much harder to switch to Apple Music and other rivals.
You can even reserve concert tickets for your favorite artists
Spotify isn’t leaning solely on Studio to deepen its AI integration. The company wishes to strike a balance between the demand for AI-generated music and respect for human artists. It just struck a licensing deal with Universal Music Group that lets fans use AI to produce covers and remixes when musicians allow it. If you want a trance mix of a favorite folk song, you can make the collaboration and know that the artists and songwriters will still get paid.
You can also use AI to ask Spotify questions about the podcast you’re playing, such as explaining a concept or getting recommendations related to the show’s creator. This feature is available now on mobile for Premium subscribers in the U.S., Ireland, and Sweden. YTou can also generate personal podcasts within Spotify that include the previously mentioned briefings as well as explorations of favorite topics and creators.
The company is widening Audiobooks+ with more plans. You can add extra reading hours this summer, and there will be family and student plans later in the year. AI prompt-generated playlists are also coming to audiobooks in the summer.
Spotify also claims to have a solution for avid fans tired of fighting bots and scalpers to land concert tickets. A newly available Reserved feature lets adult Premium members in the U.S. secure up to two tickets if they’re among an artist’s most frequent listeners.