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Policy2026-06-12 · source-backed
Per MacRumors, the European Commission publicly rebuffed Apple on June 9, saying its decision to withhold Gemini-powered Siri from 450M+ EU users is Apple's own business choice, not a DMA requirement. Apple had sought an 18-month exemption from DMA Article 6 interoperability rules. Regulators refused. The standoff over who has to open up assistant access keeps escalating.
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On Apple's fiscal Q3 call, Cook said the LLM-powered Siri rebuild will have paid tiers: "there will be people that want to use it a lot, and so we will have some kind of upgrade possibilities on iCloud+, where people can buy up the stack." Apple reported $111.2B revenue and a...
Rebuilt Siri powered by Google Gemini for reasoning. On-screen context awareness, multi-step task chains, persistent conversations. Apple retains UI and privacy while Gemini handles reasoning. With 2.2B active devices, this is the largest AI assistant deployment in history. Te...
Some features pushed to iOS 26.5 (May) or iOS 27 (September) due to reliability issues. Samsung ships 800M Gemini devices while Apple's flagship AI assistant remains incomplete. 9to5Mac ---
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