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Unwrap your personal musical podcast. In this year’s version of Wrapped, Spotify introduced two new features that help you experience your annual listening recap in different ways. One new feature is a new data story called “Your Music Evolution,” which lets you see how your musical interests evolved over the past year. The other feature is through a partnership with Google’s NotebookLM that produces an AI-powered podcast of your 2024 Wrapped. The result is meant to feel like you’re listening to a podcast about your Wrapped.

Spotify Wrapped, the streamer’s highly anticipated annual listening recap, has arrived. In addition to its usual personalized summary detailing your favorite artists, songs, podcasts, and more, the company this year is introducing two new features, including, most notably, an AI-powered podcast of your 2024 Wrapped created with Google’s AI summarization tool, NotebookLM.

Your data may not be for sale as widely as it was before. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wants to rein in the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information. In the wake of high-profile hacks affecting hundreds of millions of Americans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is proposing a rule limiting data brokers’ ability to sell Americans’ sensitive personal and financial information. Under the proposed rule, data brokers that sell information about consumers’ income, credit history, credit score, or debt payments would be considered consumer reporting agencies. As such, they’d be required to comply with the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), a law limiting how these agencies can obtain and use the information provided in consumer reports.

These aren’t the posts you’re looking for. Threads is rolling out a search update globally over the next few weeks that will let users filter searches to a specific profile and within date ranges. The existing search built into Threads has been a basic keyword search to find trending topics, posts, or accounts, with “Top” and “Recent” sorting options. You’ll have the option to look for posts after a specific date, before a date, or from a specific profile. These search updates are an attempt by Threads to reach parity with X and Bluesky and a recognition that people use social networks for more than just doom scrolling. Doom searching, perhaps?

OpenAI wishes you happy holidays. Open AI plans to kick off a “shipmas” period of new features, products, and demos for 12 days, starting on December 5th. The announcements include a text-to-video AI tool, Sora, and a new reasoning model.

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