This is the Daily Tech News for Thursday, May 7th, 2026.

We tell you what you need to know, give you some important context, and try to help each other understand.

Well, today, as Spotify opens up its podcast features to OpenClaw,

Andy Beach joins us to discuss streaming music's odd approach to AI. I'm looking forward to that one.

We've also got a screenless Fitbit and Anthropics deal with SpaceX, which doesn't yet involve

orbital data centers. But we're saying there's a chance.

I'm Tom Merritt.

I'm windwit now.

Let's start with what you need to know with that big story.

Spotify has launched a command line interface called Save to Spotify, CLI, on GitHub, so that you

can use it to create podcasts in an agent, something that

OpenClaw, Claude Codex can all do, and then upload those to Spotify for your own use.

To be clear, this is for your own use. This doesn't go distribute them to everyone else.

But it could be things like your daily digest, your meeting prep,

class notes, stuff like that. Spotify also announced its machine-generated DJ voice, now available

in more markets and more languages now. This follows a developing attitude from streaming platforms

to generated content that Andy Beach at Engines of Change has described as a detect label stay neutral.

So we thought, who better to discuss this than Andy Beach?

Welcome, Andy.

Hello, good to see you, Tom.

Good to see you, too.

I know you have some thoughts on the risks to royalties that this detect approach poses. But before we get to that,

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