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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.
Three papers from today's arXiv: a 32B medical model beats DeepSeek-R1 in rare disease diagnosis, a KV cache method keeps 97% accuracy with 3% memory, and a new benchmark red-teams agentic AI systems.
OpenAI's GPT-5.5-Cyber found CVE-2026-8390 in Firefox's WebAssembly engine before Pwn2Own Berlin - five of six registered exploit entries withdrew.
Sakana Fugu tops SWE-Bench Pro by routing tasks across rival LLMs, Microsoft's 9B browser agent beats OpenAI Operator, and a 3B model from Weibo matches DeepSeek V3.2 on math.
Google DeepMind's $75M investment in A24 aims to build AI tools shaped by filmmakers rather than imposed on them, as studios race to stake their AI positions across Hollywood.
The White House won't lift its ban on Anthropic's Fable 5 until the model can be made jailbreak-proof. Security experts explain why that condition is technically impossible.
New reporting reveals Amazon CEO Andy Jassy flagged a Fable 5 jailbreak on a routine White House call, triggering a 90-minute ultimatum that shut down Anthropic's two best models worldwide.
Three arXiv papers: a conscience mechanism for ethical training, shared memory for agent populations, and selective verification that cuts test-time compute waste.
Google DeepMind's DiffusionGemma generates 1,000+ tokens per second through parallel diffusion, trading 5-19 benchmark points against Gemma 4 for speed and unique bidirectional generation capabilities.
Baseten's $1.5B raise at a $13B valuation signals a structural shift as open-source models displace closed APIs in enterprise AI.
Three new papers: agents that compile runs into 8-13x faster state machines, benchmark scores that shift with compute budget, and big brands monopolizing LLM recommendations.
Mistral's 128B open-weight model consolidates reasoning, coding, and vision into one checkpoint, with remote agents that file pull requests autonomously.
Two major surveys from WordPress VIP and Gartner find a majority of US consumers are put off by AI labels in brand messaging, even as companies race to build AI visibility for search engines.
