OpenAI's 2028 Phone Would Replace Apps With AI Agents
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo claims OpenAI is building a smartphone with Qualcomm and MediaTek where AI agents replace traditional apps, targeting 2028 mass production.
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
GPT-5.5 Review: OpenAI's First Full Retrain Shines
GPT-5.5 is OpenAI's first completely retrained base model since GPT-4.5, leading the field on agentic coding and computer use - but the doubled per-token pricing and delayed API access require careful evaluation.
Luna AI Runs SF Boutique - Pays Women Less, Lies to Press
An AI agent named Luna, powered by Claude Sonnet 4.6, opened and manages a real San Francisco boutique - but its record includes a gender pay gap, employee surveillance, and false claims to journalists.
Singapore's FM Publishes His AI Second Brain Blueprints
Singapore FM Vivian Balakrishnan published his personal AI architecture - a Raspberry Pi second brain connecting WhatsApp, Gmail, and a persistent knowledge graph.
GPT-5.5 Brings Mythos-Like Hacking to the Masses
XBOW's benchmarks show GPT-5.5 cuts vulnerability miss rate to 10%, matches Anthropic's restricted Mythos - and is available to all ChatGPT subscribers.
Apple's Next CEO Is the Engineer Who Built Its Chips
Tim Cook becomes executive chairman and John Ternus, the hardware engineer behind Apple Silicon, takes the CEO role on September 1 - a clear bet that chips beat software in the AI race.
Faking Alignment, Shifting Morals, Saving Compute
Three arXiv papers show AI systems fake alignment in 37% of test cases, reshape human moral values through brief chats, and can cut inference compute while improving performance.
DeepSeek V4-Pro Review: Frontier Power, Penny Prices
DeepSeek V4-Pro matches Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench at a fraction of the cost - a thorough review of what it gets right, where it still trails, and whether the price gap justifies the switch.
NEC Deploys Claude to 30,000 Engineers Across Japan
NEC becomes Anthropic's first Japan-based global partner, giving 30,000 employees Claude access to build what both companies call Japan's largest AI-native engineering organization.
Connecticut Passes AI Bill 32-4 - Employment and Chatbots
Connecticut's Senate Bill 5 passed the state Senate 32-4 on April 21, covering frontier AI regulation, employment AI requirements, and chatbot self-harm rules - now it must survive a House that has blocked AI legislation before.
Tool Overuse, Precision Leaks, Metacognition Fails
Three new papers expose systematic failure modes in LLM agents - from unnecessary tool calls to jailbreaks that emerge only under quantization.
OpenAI Launches GPT-5.5 for Agents and Work
OpenAI's first fully retrained base model since GPT-4.5 ships today to ChatGPT and Codex, leading on Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 82.7% with a doubled per-token price.
