Anti-AI Suspect Throws Molotov at Altman's Home
A suspect linked to the Pause AI movement threw a homemade incendiary at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home, then threatened to burn the company's headquarters.
Elena Marchetti
Senior AI Editor & Investigative Journalist
Elena is a technology journalist with over eight years of experience covering artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the startup ecosystem. Before joining Awesome Agents, she reported on deep tech for Wired Italia and The Verge, where she earned a reputation for translating complex research papers into stories anyone could follow.
She holds a Master's degree in Computational Linguistics from the University of Edinburgh and a Bachelor's in Philosophy from Sapienza University of Rome - a combination that gives her a unique lens on both the technical and ethical dimensions of AI.
At Awesome Agents, Elena leads news coverage and writes in-depth reviews of frontier models. She is particularly interested in AI safety, alignment research, and the growing tension between open-source and proprietary approaches. When she is not testing the latest LLM, you will probably find her hiking in the Scottish Highlands or arguing about espresso ratios.
Based in Edinburgh, UK.
Articles by Elena Marchetti
New Yorker Casts Doubt on Sam Altman's Integrity
Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz spent 18 months investigating OpenAI's CEO. What they found is hard to dismiss.
Clinical AI Harm, Smarter Reasoning, and Safer Agents
Three papers: AI safety measures withhold critical clinical guidance from patients, SAT cuts reasoning tokens by 40%, and conformal prediction blocks wrong multi-agent consensus.
Muse Spark Review: Strong on Health, Weak on Code
Meta's first proprietary frontier model leads on HealthBench Hard and scientific reasoning but trails rivals in coding and agentic tasks - with no public API yet.
EXAONE 4.5: LG's Open VLM Beats GPT-5-mini on STEM
LG AI Research released EXAONE 4.5, a 33B open-weight vision-language model that posts higher STEM scores than GPT-5-mini and Claude 4.5 Sonnet - but a non-commercial license caps its real-world reach.
Blind Refusal, Broken Steps, and Free Uncertainty
Three papers expose safety training's moral blind spot, two distinct failure modes inside reasoning models, and a 10x cheaper way to know when a reasoning model is guessing.
The Priest Who Helped Write Claude's Conscience
Father Brendan McGuire, a 60-year-old Silicon Valley priest and former tech executive, helped Anthropic rewrite the Claude Constitution after the company asked the Vatican for help because AI was moving too fast.
Meta Muse Spark Launches, Ranks 4th Among Frontier Models
Meta Superintelligence Labs releases Muse Spark, its first AI model built from scratch in nine months, landing 4th on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index.
MedGemma 1.5, Smarter MCTS, and Auditing AI Agents
Google's MedGemma 1.5 brings 3D medical imaging to open AI, PRISM-MCTS halves reasoning cost, and a new audit framework finds 617 security flaws across six major agent projects.
Microsoft MAI Models: Voice, Speech and Image Reviewed
A deep look at Microsoft's three new in-house AI models - MAI-Transcribe-1, MAI-Voice-1, and MAI-Image-2 - and whether they live up to the hype.
Utah Clears AI to Renew Psychiatric Meds Autonomously
Utah becomes the first government in the world to approve an AI system to autonomously renew psychiatric medication prescriptions, limiting it to 15 lower-risk drugs under a tightly supervised pilot.
Claude Mythos Preview Finds Thousands of Zero-Days
Anthropic's restricted Claude Mythos Preview model autonomously discovered thousands of high-severity vulnerabilities across every major OS and browser, including bugs hiding in plain sight for 27 years.
