Apple Home’s AI Security Camera Features Are Opt-In, if You Can Afford Them

Apple's smart home empire just added a layer of synthetic sight: AI-powered video summaries and natural language search for your security cameras—if your wallet can stomach the tariff. At up to sixty dollars a month, the machine that watches your door now charges admission for the privilege of telling you what it saw. The descriptions promise to distill hours of mundane footage into crisp narrative snippets, transforming your home's perimeter into a story only an algorithm gets to read first. But this opt-in oracle raises a question that lingers