EU tech chief and Tim Cook hold ‘constructive’ talks as Siri AI stays blocked in Europe
Apple chief executive Tim Cook and the European Union’s technology chief spoke by video call on Monday, and both sides came away describing the exchange as “constructive”. That word is doing a lot of work.
Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen, who oversees the bloc’s digital rulebook, held the meeting with Cook on 30 June. An EU spokesperson said the two had a “constructive exchange on topics of common interest, on which the work continues”.
Neither side detailed what was agreed, and the language suggests very little was.
The subject that brought them to the same screen is Siri AI, Apple’s rebuilt voice assistant, and whether it can launch in Europe without breaching the Digital Markets Act. Apple has already confirmed the feature will not ship on iPhone or iPad in the EU when iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 arrive later this year.
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