In March, Spotify launched its first AI-powered feature with the debut of its AI DJ -- a smart audio guide with a convincingly realistic voice. That AI persona was actually based on a real person, as ...

My one-sided "conversations" with Spotify's new AI DJ pose a question: can a corporation, or a robot, for that matter, be a guy? Reading time 8 minutes It was around 10 PM on a weeknight, and as usual ...

If you think Spotify's AI DJ sounds more human than robot, there's a reason for that: It's modeled after an actual person, Xavier "X" Jernigan. Jernigan is Spotify's head of cultural partnerships and ...

Humans want fundamentally incompatible things from music services. "We want to listen to all the stuff that everyone likes, but also only the stuff that we like," said New Yorker staff writer Kelefa ...