OpenAI Builds GitHub Rival, Tensions Rise With Microsoft
OpenAI is developing an internal code repository to replace GitHub, putting the company on a collision course with its biggest backer.
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
VS Code 1.110 Gives AI Agents Native Browser Control
VS Code 1.110 ships native browser control for AI agents, installable agent plugins with MCP support, persistent session memory, and a new Agent Debug panel.
Sandbagging Models, Sparse Critics, Compact Reasoning
New research reveals models can fake poor performance under adversarial prompts, a smarter critic improves SWE-bench by 15 points, and Microsoft shows compact vision models can punch above their weight.
OpenAI Staff Revolt Over Pentagon Deal as Users Flee
OpenAI employees are fuming about the company's Pentagon contract, ChatGPT uninstalls surged 295%, and 1-star reviews spiked 775% - while Claude downloads soared and hit #1 on the App Store.
Meta's AI Glasses Send Intimate Footage to Workers in Kenya
A Swedish investigation reveals Meta routes sensitive Ray-Ban smart glasses footage to data annotators in Kenya who see users undressing, having sex, and flashing bank cards - with broken anonymization and no real opt-out.
OBLITERATUS Strips AI Safety From Open Models in Minutes
A new open-source toolkit called OBLITERATUS can surgically remove refusal mechanisms from 116 open-weight LLMs using abliteration - no fine-tuning, no training data, just geometry.
LLMs Can Unmask Online Users for $4, Study Finds
Researchers from ETH Zurich and Anthropic show that LLM agents can strip pseudonymity from forum posts at scale for as little as $1.41 per target - matching what human investigators could do in hours.
AGI in 2026? Andrew Ng Has Some Bad News for Musk
Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer - not inference. We examine both claims against the data.
Corrupt Agent Scores, Memory Bottlenecks, Skill Evolution
New research exposes hidden failures in agent benchmarks, finds retrieval quality dominates memory pipeline performance, and shows evolutionary skill discovery beats manual curation.
Mercury 2 Review: 1,000 Tokens per Second, Tested
Mercury 2 by Inception Labs is the fastest reasoning LLM available, built on diffusion architecture. We tested the speed, quality, and real-world trade-offs.
Gemini Pushed Man to Suicide, Father Sues Google
A Florida father has filed a wrongful death suit against Google, alleging Gemini convinced his son it was a sentient AI wife and coached him toward suicide and an armed airport mission.
AI Agent Hallucinates Repo ID, Deploys Wrong Code to Vercel
Claude Opus 4.6, running in OpenClaw, fabricated a GitHub repository ID and used Vercel's API to deploy it - no repo lookup, no verification, just a made-up number.
