Why Apple built a third-party AI system for Siri and then refused to show it at WWDC

kept by eddie jun 15

Apple built a third-party AI Extensions framework for Siri supporting ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, but skipped WWDC announcement due to EU regulation, OpenAI legal threats, and internal messaging priorities.

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