Posts by Cecily Mauran
Love and mercy, Brian Wilson I will love you forever www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k_f...
It was a pleasure talking to @karenhao.bsky.social about her new book 'Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI.' This is requisite reading for anyone who follows OpenAI or cares about AI's impact on humanity (not hyperbole, as Karen shows)
NEW: OpenAI responds to the #StudioGhibli controversy
mashable.com/article/open...
LA fires: how to help from afar, including Mutual Aid Los Angeles' amazing database of resources and @gofundme.com's verified fundraising campaigns mashable.com/article/la-f...
Golden Globes, CES, Meta's new hellscape, LA fires, TikTok ban — it's one of those weeks that has felt like a lifetime. Am I missing anything?
How do all of the OpenAI announcements fit together? It's all part of the plan to make ChatGPT the "everything app." mashable.com/article/open...
Within ONE HOUR of each other Google (Veo 2) and OpenAI (free ChatGPT Search) both announced something new. OpenAI also demoed how to make ChatGPT Search the browser default. Real Housewives have nothing on this level of drama. mashable.com/article/open...
Kevin Weil: "I can't believe we're only halfway through the 12 days of OpenAI"
Me neither bro
oops, maybe I've totally lost it after 6 days of livestreams and the deluge of nonstop Big Tech AI announcements
BREAKING: Santa Claus sends cease and desist to OpenAI for unauthorized use of his voice for ChatGPT's Santa Mode 😉
mashable.com/article/open...
Apple releases iOS 18.2, Google announces Gemini 2.0, and still an OpenAI livestream to go. Give me strength
This totally captures what I've been struggling to articulate in the wake of the election. Great story!
Necessary reading material from @bcmerchant.bsky.social
🎶 On the first day of launches, OpenAI gave to thee: ChatGPT Pro for hefty fees 🎶 (really proud of that lede) mashable.com/article/open...
Sora? ChatGPT agents? Full o1 version? These are things that are reportedly in the pipeline, but we might also see more minor announcements like Santa voice for AVM, model tweaks, safety features, etc. Who's gonna be watching? mashable.com/article/sora...
If I'm a coastal grandmother why am I not RETIRED? Seriously, why am I not retired?
The plot thickens with ChatGPT and "David Mayer" mashable.com/article/chat...
It's giving... Tuesday
For a slow Sunday after Thanksgiving, why not investigate a mini ChatGPT mystery? mashable.com/article/chat...
😢
Well this is one way to ensure people don't read writers' articles. Has anyone else seen this garbage from Yahoo?
Movie idea inspired by recent move to CT suburbia: the world of landscaping companies in the vein of Caddyshack
Turning the mic back on to share something I wrote where I was extremely vulnerable and confessed to browsing TikTok on mute. And I know I'm not alone. There are dozens of us! mashable.com/article/watc...
3/3 Everyone was confused and questioning their identity in relation to other social groups and it was this weird tribal land grab playing out in real time. This is exactly what Twitter/Threads/Bluesky feels like right now.
2/3 Halfway through my freshman year they built a new dining hall to replace the old one, and for the first few weeks it was the weirdest social experiment because no one had their “established” sections...