There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way
The Verge 1 month ago 25
Apple did not announce AirPods Pro with cameras at its September event, despite earlier rumors.
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Wednesday, 9 September 2026
Read the Apple document explaining how new listening features still protect your privacy
The Verge 1 month ago 20 ● 4 sources
Apple announced new Siri Audio Intelligence listening features at its iPhone Duo launch and also published a privacy document describing how it limits access to any captured audio. The document says raw audio is handled within dedicated hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple. As a result, Audio Intelligence can process ambient audio without storing it or exposing it through the system or apps.
Podcast: DHS’ Secretive ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit Pulling People Over
404 Media 1 month ago 36
A podcast episode described a secretive predictive policing unit within DHS that analyzes Americans’ financial data and has local police pull people over. The show’s coverage includes Joseph’s story and a second segment about a shirt designed to confuse AI-camera systems. As a result, the episode adds these allegations and topics to its weekly journalism and offers subscribers extended bonus content.
Apple’s new iPhone camera mode promises to prove your photo isn’t AI
The Verge 1 month ago 3 ● 7 sources
Apple is adding a camera feature to iPhone 18 Pro models that authenticates photos against an AI-manipulation reference image. The “Reference Image” mode arrives later this month on iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max. Photos captured in Reference mode are processed via Private Cloud Compute into an unalterable reference image for side-by-side comparison with edited versions.
Microsoft has new AI privacy rules for schools
The Verge 1 month ago 36 ● 2 sources
Microsoft agreed to privacy and safety principles for AI used in schools with the AFT and UFT, following bans on student-facing AI by two major school systems. The agreement includes ten contract-enforceable principles, including not training AI models on student or educator data. As a result, school districts that adopt the terms can require Microsoft to limit data collection and to disclose to families how its tools work.
Now it’s China’s experts who are gig workers training AI data
Rest of World 1 month ago 14
China’s expert professionals, including architects and software engineers, are taking gig work on data-annotation platforms to train AI models on real work tasks as government support for “high quality data sets” grows.
WIRED: OpenAI Navier-Stokes discovery draws academic controversy
WIRED 1 month ago 25 ● 21 sources
OpenAI announced that it found an AI-generated solution to the 200-year-old Navier-Stokes equation, sparking academic controversy over whether it rushed after learning of related work by mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge. OpenAI said it trained a new advanced model starting August 28 and used over 1,000 agents for more than 50 hours, eventually reaching as many as 10,000 agents, with computing costs in the millions of dollars. The dispute changes the focus from the claimed proof—Lean-formalized and complete—to allegations about access to researchers’ prior work and credit, with OpenAI denying it saw their material before it went public and noting de-identified data could have indirectly helped.