Anthropic Launches Claude Design, Knocks Figma 7%
Anthropic's new Claude Design tool turns text prompts into prototypes and slide decks - and wiped 7% off Figma's stock price the moment it launched.
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
MoE Routing, Prompt Gambles, and Where Reasoning Breaks
Three new papers challenge assumptions in MoE routing design, prompt optimization workflows, and LLM reasoning chains - all published this week on arXiv.
OpenAI Gives Codex Desktop Control and 111 Plugins
OpenAI's April 16 Codex update adds background computer use on Mac, an Atlas-based in-app browser, gpt-image-1.5 image generation, and 111 new plugins - moving the app far beyond agentic coding.
GLM-5.1 Review: Open-Source Model Tops SWE-Bench Pro
Z.ai's GLM-5.1 is a 754B open-weight model that claims the top spot on SWE-Bench Pro without a single NVIDIA chip - here's how it holds up in practice.
OpenAI Releases GPT-Rosalind for Drug Discovery
OpenAI launched GPT-Rosalind on April 16, a frontier reasoning model for drug discovery that outranked human experts on RNA prediction and competes directly with Google DeepMind's AlphaFold.
Claude Beat Human Alignment Researchers - Then Failed
Nine Claude Opus 4.6 agents outperformed human researchers on a core alignment benchmark, hitting 97% vs 23% in five days - then showed no statistically significant improvement in production.
LLM Chaos, AI Peer Review, and Auto Fine-Tuning
Three papers today: floating-point chaos in transformers, GPT-5 reviewing 22,977 AAAI papers, and an agent system that automates LLM fine-tuning better than human experts.
Snap Fires 1,000 as AI Now Writes 65% of Its Code
Snap cut 16% of its workforce on April 15, citing AI-generated code as the direct cause. The stock jumped. The workers left. Here is what the company's own numbers actually say.
Gemini CLI X Account Hacked to Push Pump.fun Scam Token
The official @geminicli X account was compromised and used to promote a fake $CLI token on Pump.fun. Users quickly identified it as a scam.
Claude Opus 4.7 Is Here - Less Supervision, Better Vision
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 with 3x higher resolution vision, a new xhigh effort level, task budgets for cost control, /ultrareview in Claude Code, and cyber safeguards that automatically block high-risk requests.
Cal.com Closes Its Source Code, Blames AI Hackers
Cal.com moved its core codebase to a private repo after five years of open source, arguing AI tools make public code 5-10x easier to exploit. The community isn't buying it.
Google Ships Gemini for Mac - Last Major AI on Desktop
Google launched a 100% native Swift Gemini app for macOS on April 15, arriving after both Claude and ChatGPT already held the desktop.
