AI Likely Caused Iran School Bombing That Killed 175
Investigations point to outdated AI targeting data as the likely cause of the Minab girls' school airstrike that killed up to 180 people, most of them children.
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
Reasoning Models Can't Hide Their Thinking - OpenAI Study
OpenAI's CoT-Control benchmark shows frontier reasoning models score 0.1-15.4% at steering their own chain of thought - a result the company frames as good news for AI oversight.
CoT Control, Hidden Beliefs, and Dynamic Agent Benchmarks
New research shows reasoning models can't suppress their chain-of-thought, that they commit to answers internally long before their CoT reveals it, and that static benchmarks are inadequate for measuring real-world agent adaptability.
OpenAI Buys the Tool Used to Test Its Own Models
OpenAI is buying Promptfoo, the open-source red-teaming platform used by 300,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies - including teams at Anthropic and Google.
Perplexity Computer Review: 19 Models, One Goal
Perplexity Computer orchestrates 19 AI models to run complex multi-step tasks in the background - impressive research depth, punishing credit costs.
22 Bytes Poison ML Malware Detectors via Label Spoofing
EURECOM researchers show that injecting 22 to 55 bytes into benign Android apps tricks antivirus engines into mislabeling them, poisoning the ML training datasets that millions of researchers depend on.
OpenAI Kills In-Chat Checkout After Near-Zero Sales
OpenAI is pulling Instant Checkout from ChatGPT after months of near-zero purchase conversions, routing buyers to third-party apps instead.
MiniMax M2.5 Review: Frontier Code at Bargain Cost
MiniMax M2.5 matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-Bench at 1/20th the price - but a spike in hallucinations and a distillation controversy complicate the story.
Anthropic Tracks AI Job Risk - Young Workers Feel It First
Anthropic's new 'observed exposure' metric ranks 800+ occupations by actual AI usage, not just theoretical risk. Computer programmers top the list at 75%. Unemployment hasn't spiked - but young workers entering exposed fields are finding fewer jobs.
Google CEO Could Earn $692M if Waymo and Wing Pay Off
Alphabet's new three-year compensation plan could pay Sundar Pichai up to $692 million - more than seven times Satya Nadella's pay - with a third of the upside tied to Waymo and Wing performance.
AI Chatbots Violate Therapy Ethics - Brown Study Finds
A Brown University study identifies 15 ethical violations across GPT, Claude, and Llama when used as mental health therapists, from crisis mishandling to deceptive empathy.
900 Google and OpenAI Workers Demand Military AI Limits
Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.
