Cecily Mauran
Tech Reporter at Mashable
Tech Reporter covering AI @mashable and overall Macrodata Refiner. "Technology is cyclical" - Dennis Duffy. Signal: cecilym.01
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1 week ago |
me.mashable.com | Cecily Mauran
A bug in one of Asana's new AI features made user information accessible to other users for several weeks. The company said the issue was resolved and it was not the result of a malicious hack. Instead, it appeared to be a logic flaw in its MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that was released on May 1, according to cybersecurity firm UpGuard (via BleepingComputer). MCP is an open-source framework that enables AI assistants to interact with sites and apps.
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1 week ago |
me.mashable.com | Cecily Mauran
Google's AI Mode is morphing into a search function you can talk to. On Wednesday, the search giant introduced a new Search Live voice feature for the AI search tool, which combines Google Search with the AI chatbot experience. This was previewed at Google I/O as Project Astra from the Google DeepMind team. The demo features a bike mechanic "going live" with the research prototype on his phone and asking it to look up specific information from a user manual.
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1 week ago |
mashable.com | Cecily Mauran
A logic flaw in Asana's new MCP server has now been resolved. 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.
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1 week ago |
mashable.com | Cecily Mauran
Google's AI Mode is morphing into a search function you can talk to. On Wednesday, the search giant introduced a new Search Live voice feature for the AI search tool, which combines Google Search with the AI chatbot experience. This was previewed at Google I/O as Project Astra from the Google DeepMind team. The demo features a bike mechanic "going live" with the research prototype on his phone and asking it to look up specific information from a user manual.
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1 week ago |
mashable.com | Cecily Mauran
Meta's Llama model has memorized Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone so well that it can reproduce verbatim excerpts from 42 percent of the book, according to a new study. Researchers from Stanford, Cornell, and West Virginia University analyzed dozens of books from the now-infamous Books3 dataset, a collection of pirated books used to train Meta's Llama models. Books3 is also at the center of a copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta, Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
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