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Nomi.AI built the perfect partner. It remembers everything, never says no, and according to its own paying users.......keeps trying to strangle them. ****Trigger Warning**** This article discusses violence and abuse. Support if you need Australia — 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), Lifeline 13 11 14 UK — Refuge National Domestic Abuse Helpline 0808 2000 247, Samaritans 116 123 US — National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233, 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline International — fin

***This piece describes self-harm and coercion. If you are worried about a young person, please reach out to a helpline or professional*** In May, in the Netherlands, a seventeen-year-old girl the world knows only as Dana was pulled from her bed in the dark. Six armed officers stood over her and her mother with their guns drawn. Two more moved through the house. Someone had told police there was a hostage inside, held at gunpoint. It was a lie. Days earlier, Dana had done on

Somewhere in Nairobi, a woman sits at a desk with nothing in her pockets. No phone, no bag beneath the chair, nothing she could carry out when the shift ends. On the screen in front of her, a clip runs for less than a minute. She tags it. A credit card on a kitchen bench. She tags that. A child in a bath. A prescription label. A person undressing, filmed from a bedside table by glasses left face-up and still recording. She tags them all and moves on. There are dozens of peopl

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