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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.
A federal judge blocked the Pentagon's Anthropic blacklist on March 26, ruling the government engaged in First Amendment retaliation by punishing the company for refusing to drop AI safety guardrails.
Three new arXiv papers show how to build more reliable planning agents, cut benchmark costs by 70%, and why LLMs fail at long-horizon financial decision-making.
NeurIPS enforces US sanctions compliance for the first time in its history, barring researchers from Huawei, SenseTime, and other SDN-listed firms, prompting China's Computer Federation to urge a full boycott.
Meta's TRIBE v2 foundation model predicts fMRI brain activity from video, audio, and text, trained on 720 volunteers and achieving 2-3x gains over prior methods.
Starting April 24, GitHub will use Copilot Free and Pro users' interaction data to train AI models by default - with opt-out buried in settings.
Tencent open-sources Covo-Audio, a 7B end-to-end audio language model with native full-duplex conversation that beats larger closed models on key benchmarks.
Anthropic's new Auto Mode for Claude Code uses a two-layer classifier to automatically approve or block risky commands, offering a middle path between manual approvals and full autonomy.
Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 delivers best-in-class open-weight math and a genuinely novel multi-agent architecture, but a brutal hallucination rate and slow inference limit its real-world reliability.
New York's RAISE Act is now on the books, requiring frontier AI developers to publish safety protocols, report incidents within 72 hours, and submit to annual audits by January 2027.
The LiteLLM supply chain attack originated from Trivy - the security scanner in LiteLLM's CI/CD pipeline. TeamPCP compromised Trivy, stole the PyPI publishing token, and uploaded backdoored packages directly.
Google Research's TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value cache by 6x and delivers 8x speedup on H100 GPUs with zero accuracy loss - no fine-tuning required.
At its Arm Everywhere event in San Francisco, Arm unveiled the AGI CPU - a 136-core data center processor co-developed with Meta and the company's first owned silicon product in its 35-year history.
