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Earlier this week, Meta announced that people could generate images in Meta AI by @-mentioning public Instagram accounts they wanted to reference. In plain English, that meant someone could bring a public Instagram account into an AI image prompt and use public photos from that account as part of a new AI-generated image. After public backlash, Meta updated its announcement on July 10, 2026, saying the feature “missed the mark” and is “no longer available” (Meta Newsroom). T

A follow-up to “Instagram just changed the rules on your photos.” that has been read by 100K+ of you across various platforms. You can read it here for background. Meta has announced something in the last 24hrs called Muse Spark 1.1. Forget the name, because here are the most common questions I have been asked over the past few days and why it all matters. Question 1: Kirra, does this happen on Facebook and WhatsApp too, or is it just Instagram? Yes. It does. Not in exactl

A new Meta AI feature lets people turn public Instagram photos into AI-generated images. For a school, that is not a creative novelty. It is a safeguarding, consent and reputation issue - and the fix takes five minutes. Instagram has quietly introduced a new AI image feature that belongs on every school's and parents radar today. Meta's new model, Muse Image, lets people @mention Instagram accounts inside Meta AI prompts, so public photos from those profiles can be pulled i

I learned something new a few days ago, promptly forgot about it and then this morning I was poking around in a settings menu looking for something else , and there it was. I showed my partner, mostly as a “huh, look at this” and before I’d even finished explaining, he’d put his phone in my hand and said, “Quick. Do it to mine.” A simple setting change transforms any iPhone into something that feels a lot more like a dumb phone without buying another device. Nobody has to be

The way we've shared music has always been a small act of love. You hear a song that cracks you open a little, and you send it to someone with the quiet hope that it might undo them too. That's the sweet version. And Spotify's new messaging feature is being sold to us in exactly that language, a tidy, warm, a place to keep the songs and the people together.