Cecily Mauran

2 days ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

Last week, Google quietly announced that it would be adding a visible watermark to AI-generated videos made using its new Veo 3 model. And if you look really closely while scrolling through your social feeds, you might be able to see it. The watermark can be seen in videos released by Google to promote the launch of Veo 3 in the UK and other countries. Google announced the change in an X thread by Josh Woodward, Vice President with Google Labs and Google Gemini.

3 days ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

In less than two weeks, Google Wallet users in the U.S. will no longer be able to directly link their PayPal account. So, if you're currently using PayPal for contactless payments on your Android device, you'll need to find an alternative solution. In an update to the Google Wallet support page first spotted by Android Authority, Google's digital wallet service is losing support for PayPal integration.

4 days ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

Samsung users might have Perplexity-powered features on future devices. According to a report from Bloomberg, Samsung is "nearing a wide-ranging deal" to bring Perplexity search capabilities to the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. That could include the Perplexity app pre-loaded on Samsung devices, Perplexity search features within Samsung's web browser, and possibly integrating Perplexity with Samsung's Bixby virtual assistant.

5 days ago | me.mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

This week, DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 model on HuggingFace, reigniting the open-source versus closed-source competition. The updated version, called DeekSeek-R1-0528, has 685 billion parameters, an upgrade from January's version, which had 671 billion. Unlike OpenAI and Google's models, which are famously closed-source, DeepSeek's model weights are publicly available.

1 week ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

Plus, Claude finally gets voice mode and the AI-generated emotional support kangaroo that fooled the internet. Cecily Mauran Cecily Mauran Tech Reporter Cecily is a tech reporter at Mashable who covers AI, Apple, and emerging tech trends. Before getting her master's degree at Columbia Journalism School, she spent several years working with startups and social impact businesses for Unreasonable Group and B Lab.