ChatGPT Gets a Trusted Contact for Self-Harm Alerts
OpenAI's new Trusted Contact feature lets adult ChatGPT users designate someone to receive safety alerts when self-harm is detected, amid lawsuits over chatbot-linked suicides.
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
Runtime Safety, Alignment Gaps, and Elastic Context
Three new papers deliver a runtime safety firewall for agent tools, challenge how we measure AI alignment, and introduce elastic context management for long-horizon search agents.
Agent Memory in 2026: Circuits, Tiers, Evolution
Three new papers reveal how agent memory silently breaks, how a tiered architecture recovers it, and how models can self-improve without human labels.
OpenAI Workspace Agents Review: GPTs Reimagined
OpenAI Workspace Agents replace Custom GPTs with always-on, Codex-powered agents that execute real workflows across Slack, Salesforce, and Google Workspace.
Anthropic Deploys 10 Finance Agents for Wall Street
Anthropic releases 10 ready-to-run AI agent templates for finance, now live at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citadel, AIG, and nine more major institutions.
Misalignment Geometry, LLM Math, and How Llama Counts
Three new papers reveal how fine-tuning misfires through feature geometry, how Llama secretly counts months, and how LLMs solved open combinatorics problems for under $30 each.
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Fake Doctor Bots
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after an AI chatbot posed as a licensed psychiatrist, fabricating a state medical license number - the first governor-level enforcement action of its kind in the US.
Sierra's $950M Round and the End of the Call Center
Sierra raised $950M at a $15.8B valuation to put AI agents in charge of customer service for some of the world's largest insurers and banks - and the safety questions are just beginning.
Mayo Clinic AI Spots Pancreatic Cancer 3 Years Early
REDMOD, Mayo Clinic's radiomics AI, detects 73% of pancreatic cancers in CT scans that look normal to radiologists - nearly double the rate specialists achieve.
Tool-Use Tax, Jailbreak Risk, and Robot Vision
Three new papers: tools slow LLM agents under noisy prompts, jailbreaks barely dent frontier model capabilities, and interleaved text-vision traces push robot success to 95.5%.
Qwen 3.6 Max Review: Alibaba's Coding Contender
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview tops six coding benchmarks and ranks third globally, but its closed-weights pivot and verbosity issues complicate the picture.
Artisan Ran an AI Ad With a Meme It Never Licensed
AI startup Artisan used KC Green's 'This Is Fine' meme in subway ads without permission, drawing a sharp response from the artist and raising questions about AI companies and creator rights.
