Elissa Welle

Former Tarbell AI Fellow

Spotify’s new audiobook recap feature uses AI to remind you of the story so far

Elissa WelleNov 13, 2025

Amazon is cracking down on illegal streaming on its Fire TV Stick

Elissa WelleNov 12, 2025

Google Gemini’s Deep Research can look into your emails, drive, and chats

Elissa WelleNov 5, 2025

The human behind AI music artist Xania Monet, revealed.

In September, we wrote about the record deal scored by the human creator of a popular AI-generated R&B artist called “Xania Monet.” (And the copyright mess that comes with artistry primarily generated by AI.) At the time, only the manager of the human artist spoke to us on the phone.

Now, Monet’s creator, Telisha “Nikki” Jones, has gone public in an interview with Gayle King on CBS Mornings.

Elissa WelleNov 5, 2025

Education technology companies don’t tell you much about the AI in their products.

This report from the Center for Democracy & Technology isn’t very surprising, since tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat.

The civil rights nonprofit found edtech companies don’t tell educators crucial information like the AI model used, or whether it’s tuned for a school context. On average, they found the 100-plus companies evaluated failed to provide more than half of the pertinent info.

Opening the Book: A Rubric to Support Effective Transparency for EdTech Products that Incorporate AI

[Center for Democracy & Technology]