Is Apple beginning a privacy reset?

In recent months, hints emerged concerning Apple’s plans to introduce camera-equipped AirPods Pro; the cameras would be designed to pick up details of your ambient surroundings and feed information to Siri to help you with your life. At one point, we heard the product had been pulled citing privacy concerns. But that doesn’t seem to be the case, as the latest seemingly orchestrated Apple “leak” offers up a short video to explain how these things are going to work. The privacy reset First spotted by MacRumors (is Mark Gurman on vacation?), the short clip was unearthed from within the macOS 26.7 Release Candidate. The demo shows a man holding up a book so the camera in the AirPods can see the title. A voiceover says, “With Visual Intelligence, your world becomes saveable.” It continues, “See something you like? Just ask me to save it for later.” While you could be forgiven for thinking this is a reference to salvation, the task at hand is much more mundane, with the cameras used to search for a book called Could Should Might Don’t, How we Think About the Future by futurist Nick Foster. There’s probably a message in that choice, given that the inherent tech at play here consists of c…