Spotify's Prompted Playlists took over for me at a party - and didn't disappoint

ZDNET reports that Spotify is rolling out a beta Prompted Playlist feature to Premium users in the US and Canada (after a December 2025 beta in New Zealand), enabling natural-language playlist creation that factors in listening history and trends and can refresh on a chosen schedule; in testing (e.g., for a birthday party), it performed well and offers more updating/personalization than Spotify’s existing AI playlist or ChatGPT integrations, though it’s framed as a helpful starting point rather than a replacement for human curation.