Apple Delays Siri AI in EU, Says Regulators Refusing to Engage

Apple Inc. said it isn’t currently able to launch Siri AI, its redesigned digital assistant, on iPhones or iPads in the European Union, marking the company’s latest standoff with the continent’s antitrust watchdog.

Apple said in a statement Monday that it had proposed an EU-specific solution that would make Siri AI compliant with the bloc’s Digital Markets Act, known as the DMA, while protecting user privacy by limiting the data that virtual assistants could access.

The company said the European Commission did not accept any of its suggestions over the past several months, and that as a result Siri ...