Alignment Gaps, Agent Governance, and Greener LLMs
Three new papers expose a hidden flaw in DPO training, propose policy-as-code governance for enterprise agents, and cut LLM serving energy use by 26% via GPU power control.
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
Anthropic Nears First Profit as Q2 Revenue Hits $10.9B
Anthropic projects $10.9B in Q2 revenue and its first-ever $559M operating profit, two years ahead of its own 2028 guidance - but the xAI compute bill arrives in full next quarter.
Where AI Agents Break: Research, Safety, and Privacy
Three new papers expose where autonomous agents still fail: fabricating research, turning hallucinations into security exploits, and leaking private data from small models.
Stable Audio 3.0 Ships Open Weights, 6-Min Songs
Stability AI releases Stable Audio 3.0 as a four-model family with a new SAME autoencoder, open weights for three of four variants, and tracks up to 6 minutes 20 seconds - while Suno and Udio face ongoing copyright lawsuits over their training data.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Review: When Flash Surpasses Pro
Gemini 3.5 Flash leads on agentic benchmarks, runs 4x faster than Claude and GPT-5.5, and undercuts both on price - but a hidden long-context weakness and a 3x price hike over its predecessor deserve scrutiny.
Google Search Gains AI Agents, Hits 1 Billion Users
Google's AI Mode reached 1 billion monthly users at I/O 2026, as the company announced information agents, agentic booking, and generative UI set to transform Search this summer.
Fix 8% of Tokens, Dodge Memory Attacks, Cut Agent Costs
New research pinpoints the 8% of tokens driving reasoning failures, exposes memory laundering in agent systems, and cuts web agent inference costs 1.9x.
OpenAI Bets Everything on One Agentic Platform
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a unified agentic platform under Greg Brockman, while pausing Sora and shutting down its science and adult content experiments.
Suleiman Claims AI Takes White-Collar Jobs in 18 Months
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman says professional jobs face automation within 18 months. The data from independent studies tells a different story.
Anthropic Acquires Stainless SDK Startup for $300M
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.
Self-Correcting Models, Smarter Monitors, AI Designs Itself
Three new papers tackle critique dependency in LLMs, ensemble monitoring for AI control, and agents that autonomously discover better neural architectures.
Musk Loses OpenAI Lawsuit - Jury Rejects All Claims
A unanimous jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman after less than two hours of deliberation, finding all three counts barred by the statute of limitations.
