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Cecily Mauran

Brooklyn, New York

Tech Reporter at Mashable

Tech Reporter covering AI @mashable. '20 @columbiajourn. "Technology is cyclical" - Dennis Duffy

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  • 6 days ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

    You're not the only one who turns to Wikipedia for quick facts. Lately, a deluge of AI bots training on Wikipedia articles has put enormous strain on the organization's servers. To curb the influx of "non-human traffic" scraping the site for training data, Wikipedia is taking a proactive approach: serving up its data directly to AI developers.

  • 6 days ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

    Google Gemini 2.5 Flash, its hybrid reasoning model, is now available in preview for the standalone Gemini app. On Thursday, the company rolled out an "early version" of the model with updated reasoning capabilities. It can also better determine how much processing power or "thinking" to apply to each request.

  • 1 week ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

    The long-rumored foldable iPhone might trade Face ID for Touch ID. 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.

  • 1 week ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

    OpenAI's o3 and o4-mini models for ChatGPT have arrived. As expected, the ChatGPT maker released the newest versions of its reasoning models. OpenAI launched o1, its first reasoning or chain-of-thought model, last summer and skipped over o2 to announce its progress on o3 in late December. While o3 has not been publicly available yet until today, OpenAI now has a lightweight version, o3-mini on the market.

  • 1 week ago | mashable.com | Cecily Mauran

    Google's use of AI to combat harmful ads has resulted in the suspension 39.2 million fraudulent accounts. On Wednesday, the tech giant published its 2024 Ads Safety Report, highlighting its use of advanced LLMs (Large Language Models) to detect and enforce advertiser fraud.

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Cecily Mauran
Cecily Mauran @cecily_mauran
28 Mar 25

RT @mashable: There's a very specific reason why OpenAI says it's okay. https://t.co/ynwzBYGrIw

Cecily Mauran
Cecily Mauran @cecily_mauran
28 Mar 25

NEW: OpenAI responds to the #StudioGhibli controversy https://t.co/mU2aXpbve9

Cecily Mauran
Cecily Mauran @cecily_mauran
12 Jan 25

LA fires: how to help from afar, including @MutualaidLA's amazing database of resources and @gofundme's verified fundraising campaigns https://t.co/FiZPqRpAIt