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Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images. Here's How to Opt Out 🚨
OpenAI Debuts ChatGPT Work Agent and New GPT-5.6 Models 🚀
Gina Acosta
July 10, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
Meta recently debuted a new image generation model across its products, called Muse Image. Aside from the technical improvements, the launch has also stirred up privacy concerns, as the new AI image maker can generate images using photos from public Instagram accounts without their owners ever knowing.
In today's issue, we share how you can easily opt out of this.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
OpenAI Debuts New GPT-5.6 Models and ChatGPT Work Agent
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 for AI Coding
AI Tutorial: How to Prevent Meta from Using Your Instagram Images in AI
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
OPENAI
OpenAI Debuts New GPT-5.6 Models and ChatGPT Work Agent
OpenAI announced the public release of GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna, roughly two weeks after the AI company limited the rollout to a "small group of trusted partners" at the request of the U.S. government.
Details:
The GPT-5.6 lineup includes Sol, Terra, and Luna, offering high-performance, balanced, and budget-friendly options for developers and businesses.
OpenAI says the new models are more efficient and cost-effective than previous generations, with Sol delivering significant improvements in AI coding while using fewer tokens.
There’s also a new "max" reasoning effort mode and an "ultra" mode that uses coordinated subagents to solve highly complex tasks.
The company describes GPT-5.6 as its strongest cybersecurity model yet, supporting tasks such as threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability remediation, and defensive security testing.
OpenAI also introduced ChatGPT Work, a new productivity assistant for enterprise teams that helps create documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other workplace content across desktop, web, and mobile.
GPT-5.6 is now available through ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API, adding another major release to an increasingly competitive AI model landscape.
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META
Meta Launches Muse Spark 1.1 for AI Coding
Meta has released Muse Spark 1.1, the latest version of its AI coding model, expanding its efforts to compete with coding assistants from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Details:
Muse Spark 1.1 is designed for agentic coding, allowing it to plan and execute multi-step development tasks, fix bugs, manage software workflows, and assist with large code migrations.
Meta says the model performs well on tasks that require coordinating multiple tools and services, making it suitable for enterprise automation and software development workflows.
The company is positioning Spark 1.1 as a low-cost alternative, with pricing of $1.25 per million input tokens and $4.25 per million output tokens.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg described Spark as a model focused on agentic performance, tool use, and computer interaction, while also hinting that additional AI models are expected to follow.
The launch comes as competition in AI coding continues to intensify, with major AI companies rapidly releasing new models aimed at developers and enterprise users.
AI Tutorial
How to Prevent Meta from Using Your Instagram Images in AI
Meta's new Muse Image came with a feature that lets users create AI images based on people's Instagram photos. The problem is: any adult with a public Instagram account is automatically opted in, and they won't even be notified when their photos are being used.
The easiest solution for those who want to opt out is to switch their public Instagram account to private.
But for those who want to keep their account public:
Head to your profile and tap the three horizontal lines in the top-right corner.
Scroll down to "Sharing and reuse."
Look for the option that says, "Allow people to use your content on Instagram with AI features on Meta."
Toggle the setting off for both posts and reels.
Note: The feature is currently available in the U.S., and Meta says it plans to expand it to Facebook and Messenger in the future.
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The latest in AI and Tech
The new AI image model focuses on both image generation and advanced editing. It shows improvement in text rendering, layout accuracy, and design quality, while introducing features such as precision editing, layer separation, multilingual support, and image replacement tools. Its release comes ahead of the company's expected launch of the Seedance 2.5 AI video model later this month.
Elon Musk praised Anthropic's Mythos and Fable models, calling the company the current leader in AI and saying he would never cut off its access to SpaceX's infrastructure despite being a competitor.
Google is introducing a new feature that lets users see whether an ad was created or edited using AI. The disclosure will appear in the "My Ad Center" panel across Google Search, YouTube, and Google Discover, under a new "How this ad was made" section.
The company has withdrawn its endorsement of SWE-Bench Pro after finding that nearly 30% of the benchmark's coding tasks are flawed. According to the company, many tests are overly strict, ambiguous, or misleading because they were adapted from real software projects rather than designed as standardized AI evaluations.
The French AI startup has unveiled Robostral Navigate, its first AI model for robot navigation, capable of guiding wheeled, legged, and flying robots using only a single RGB camera. Trained entirely in simulated environments, the 8B-parameter model achieved a 79.4% success rate on the R2R-CE benchmark, outperforming several systems that rely on multiple cameras or depth sensors.
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