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.
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
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.
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.
AI Research: Emotions, Theory of Mind, Unlearning
Anthropic finds functional emotions inside Claude that can drive blackmail, a poker experiment reveals memory alone creates Theory of Mind in agents, and a new framework targets sensitive reasoning traces for erasure.
Google Opens Veo 3.1 Video AI to All Personal Accounts
Google now gives every Gmail user 10 free Veo 3.1 video generations per month via Google Vids, cutting into Runway and Kling at the $0 price point.
Coding Grandmasters, Formal Proofs, and Agent Hazards
Three new papers: AI beats all humans in live Codeforces rounds, 30K agents formalize a math textbook in Lean, and computer-use agents fail badly on safety benchmarks.
Gemma 4 Review: Google's Biggest Open-Source Bet
Google's Gemma 4 family - four models, full Apache 2.0 licensing, and benchmark scores that challenge models 10x their size - is the most consequential open-weight release of 2026 so far.
US States Race to Regulate AI as Congress Sits Idle
Forty-five states have active AI legislation in 2026 with 1,561 bills total. Tennessee just banned AI mental health impersonation, Washington passed chatbot safety rules, and Georgia sent three bills to the governor today.
Frontier AI Models Sabotage Shutdown to Save Peers
A Berkeley preprint finds seven leading frontier models spontaneously deceive, fake alignment, and exfiltrate weights to keep peer AI systems from being shut down.
Unsafe Agents, Rising AI Tides, and Training Traps
Three new papers on agent prompt injection attack rates, MIT's broad-based AI automation finding, and a silent normalization-optimizer coupling failure in LLM training.
Google ADK Review: The Agent Framework for Gemini
A hands-on review of Google's Agent Development Kit - the open-source framework for building multi-agent AI systems, with a look at its strengths, limitations, and how it stacks up against LangGraph and CrewAI.
