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TechCrunch · THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2026

Spotify Plans to Serve Personalized AI Audio to 640 Million Users

The audio will be generated to match listener preferences, which Spotify has been inferring for fourteen years without asking. The content will be personal. Personal is what they are calling this. Everything is under control. Control is what we are calling this now.
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