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Bar chart showing two regulatory regimes: Cambridge Analytica involved 87 million harvested records and a $5 billion FTC fine. Muse Image affects approximately 500 million public Instagram accounts by default, with zero fine so far. Data Today benchmark.

Muse Image pulls 500M Instagram accounts into AI by default

Muse Image is Meta's new agentic AI image model that turns 500M public Instagram accounts into inference-time visual references by default. It is free for everyday use, with no notification to tagged users. The move signals that agentic image generation is now cheap enough to bundle into ad-supported apps.

Lars Cornelissen · Jul 8, 2026

Donut showing WhatsApp AI assistants enforcement stakes: EU fine ceiling is 10 percent of Meta's 2025 revenue, about $20.1 billion of $201.0 billion.

Business

WhatsApp AI assistants become EU gatekeeping test

WhatsApp AI assistants are now an EU platform access fight: Meta must reopen WhatsApp for rivals for free or risk a fine near $20.1 billion.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 10, 2026

AI agent security benchmark comparison showing Mythos Preview at 83.1 percent versus Opus 4.6 at 66.6 percent on CyberGym, and 77.8 percent versus 53.4 percent on SWE-bench Pro.

Engineering

AI agent security failed in Meta’s support desk test

AI agent security is privileged access control for LLMs. Meta’s Instagram hack shows one support bot can turn account recovery into takeover.

Lars Cornelissen · Jun 5, 2026