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Eli Tan

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Sep 27, 2026
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Jul 9, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 27, 2026 · ELI TAN

    Opinion: I gave my life over to Meta's AI agent and was blown away (opens the original)

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    SAN FRANCISCO: Last week, I answered a call from an unknown number. “I reached Anthem Dental and am about to connect you,” a voice piped up. The call was from an artificial intelligence (AI) “agent” created by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram. Ten minutes earlier, the AI agent had called my dental insurer, given it my member ID, answered a security question and waited on hold before transferring me to the representative – just as I had asked it to.

  2. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · ELI TAN

    Meta unveils three smart glasses with built-in AI (opens the original)

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    MENLO PARK: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has directed his company to spend billions of dollars developing new artificial intelligence (AI) models. Now Meta is focusing on the next step – having people use them. On Sept 23, at its annual developer conference in Menlo Park, California, the tech giant unveiled three types of smart glasses integrated with AI, as well as new features for Muse, the AI agent released this month, which reached the top of the App Store this week.

  3. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Eli Tan

    What happened when Meta used AI to ban accounts on Facebook and Instagram (opens the original)

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    The notification startled Camille Hanson awake one night this March. Her Facebook and Instagram accounts, where she had nearly 1 million followers running a business with her husband teaching English to non-native speakers, had been flagged for deletion. Meta said she had violated the community guidelines for fraud and deception. “I’m just an English teacher,” Hanson, 40, remembered thinking. She was flummoxed by the fraud and deception claims. “What am I doing wrong?” she wondered.

  4. Article · Jul 9, 2026 · Eli Tan

    How to prevent Meta from using your Instagram images in AI (opens the original)

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    SEATTLE: When Meta unveiled an artificial intelligence (AI) image generator called Muse Image on July 7, it came with a feature that let users create AI images based on people’s Instagram photos. Any adult with a public Instagram account was automatically opted in. Using the Meta AI app, the company’s stand-alone chatbot, other users could pull from “part or all of your published photos” to create new AI images, the company wrote in a blog post.

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