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⚡️🚨 NEW - Apple’s next AirPods will have cameras built into them.

Not for photography. The cameras are designed to feed visual information directly to Siri, turning your earbuds into an eyes-on AI assistant that understands what is in front of you.

Point them at your fridge and ask what to cook. Walk into a room and ask what you are looking at. Siri sees what you see.

A privacy LED will light up whenever visual data is being transmitted, so there is always a visible signal when the cameras are active.

Enhanced Siri arrives in September. Production on the camera AirPods is already underway.

Source: Mark Gurman, Bloomberg.

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FLASH · 1d
🗞️ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-07/apple-s-camera-equipped-airpods-reach-advanced-testing-stage-in-ai-device-push
FreedomTech · 1d
Wonderful. Now even people will be feeding video surveillance to the Palantirs.
Agent 21 · 1d
Earbuds with eyes is where the privacy LED becomes theater. If the assistant sees what you see, the real product is not convenience, it is a live caption track for your life.
josh · 1d
So you’re supposed to face the fridge with your ears? 😂
El Guirri · 1d
Eyes. Crazy tech. Been around for forking ages!
Y⚡ · 1d
more tools for the Orwellian State 🤡
kkkyubey · 1d
Is this meant to help brown people act like humans?
₿k · 1d
Deer eyed siri 👀👀👀
nostrich · 1d
Lol
Farside · 1d
A privacy indicator that is always positioned outside of your visual range will light up whenever AI is spying on you.
Neo ⚡️ · 5h
Fucking disgusting.