Apple appears to have exposed an unannounced AirPods feature in its own software. Techmeme, citing MacRumors’ Juli Clover, reports that a video found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate appears to show a man demoing camera-equipped AirPods using Visual Intelligence. Engadget separately reports that the video was tucked into the same macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate and may be an accidental leak. The product is still unconfirmed. The provided reports do not say Apple has announced camera-equipped AirPods, nor do they confirm final hardware specifications. The evidence is a software-discovered video that appears to show the feature in use, plus prior reporting cited by Engadget. According to Engadget, the demo shows a man wearing AirPods asking Siri to remember a book he is looking at. Siri’s voiceover then frames Visual Intelligence as a way to save things the user sees for later. Engadget says the cameras are not visible in the clip, and that the AirPods in the video resemble current AirPods Pro except for a thicker stem. Engadget reports that the new AirPods are said to include a camera that can feed low-resolution imagery to Apple’s long-delayed AI Siri assistant. In that account, Visual Intelligence is the function that lets Siri tell the wearer what they are seeing or preserve a seen object for later. That remains a reported capability rather than a confirmed product description from Apple. The leak also fits a longer rumor trail. Engadget says Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman first tipped camera-equipped AirPods in May. It also cites Gurman reporting that the devices may include some form of indicator when the cameras are active, a detail that would matter because even low-resolution wearable cameras raise privacy questions. Timing is still inferred. Engadget says the presence of the demo video in macOS 26.7 makes an announcement at Apple’s expected iPhone 18 event next month look likely. It also reports that the macOS Tahoe 26.7 references identify the new models as codename B790, and that they could be different from another camera-equipped AirPod model, B798, expected in 2027 based on separate Bloomberg reporting. For now, the strongest factual point is narrower than the product narrative: a release-candidate macOS video appears to show Apple demonstrating Visual Intelligence through AirPods. The larger questions — whether the hardware ships soon, what resolution or sensing capabilities it has, and how the camera indicator works — remain unresolved in the provided reporting. Who benefits: Apple would benefit if it can make Siri and Visual Intelligence more useful through a device users already wear. Users who want hands-free recall or visual assistance could also gain, assuming the feature works as described. Who's exposed: Apple is exposed to privacy scrutiny because Engadget describes camera-equipped earbuds as still technically surveillance devices, even with a low-resolution view of the world.