Apple has laid off employees in its Vision Pro and Siri teams as it shifts focus to smart glasses and next-gen AI tech, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported. The cuts are said to affect around 200 workers, with 100 cuts in the Vision Pro division and another 100 in the Siri and software divisions. The Vision Pro layoffs are focused largely on gaming and immersive video teams, according to the report. The Siri cuts, meanwhile, are aimed at teams working on the old version of the Siri assistant, as the new Siri AI system requires personnel with a different type of expertise. Apple acknowledged that it was making cuts and realigning teams based on a changing product mix. "While we will create new roles as part of this change, it will also impact a limited number of existing roles," the company said.

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Apple accidentally leaked a video of its forthcoming camera-equipped AirPods earlier this week, thanks to a test version of an upcoming macOS update. Now we have even more information about the unique earbuds, also thanks to code buried in that macOS Tahoe 26.7 early build. The idea of camera-equipped earbuds is pretty wild on its own, but the details on how this will likely work are downright weird. Each earbud will reportedly have its own camera and images will be synchronized by the Visual Intelligence software into a cohesive whole. The cameras will take RGB still images up to just 1 megapixel. The AirPods will account for head movement, which isn't a surprise as the company's earbuds already have multiple accelerometers.

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Variety reports that Apple is working on a "Made With AI" tag to use in its Apple Music service. The publication says that this label will be required if "a material portion of the content" involved use of generative AI. There's no publicly known timeline for when the tags will begin appearing or if there's a more precise definition of what use cases will merit the label. We've reached out to Apple for confirmation of this upcoming feature and will update if we receive a response. Earlier this year, Apple added support for Transparency Tags, which allowed AI-generated tracks to be marked accordingly so listeners would know what they were hearing. However, the move seemed a bit half-hearted since that designation is only applied at labels' and distributors' discretion.

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