{"id":22977,"date":"2026-05-06T07:37:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/apple-agrees-to-pay-250m-after-falsely-claiming-ai-powered-siri-was-available-now\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T07:37:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T05:37:23","slug":"apple-agrees-to-pay-250m-after-falsely-claiming-ai-powered-siri-was-available-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/apple-agrees-to-pay-250m-after-falsely-claiming-ai-powered-siri-was-available-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was \u2018available now\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/apple\">Apple<\/a> on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/iphone\">iPhone<\/a> buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiffs accused the California tech company of having \u201cpromoted AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years\u201d in order to boost iPhone sales, according to the suit. Apple\u2019s more \u201cpersonalized\u201d version of Siri still has not been fully released despite its announcement nearly two years ago.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/05\/apple-siri-ai-settlement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/24c9487714799b09a2359e46a668f05ef9b34fa0\/125_0_3750_3000\/master\/3750.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=fdc640f75f131439373d16f11a8ff97e\" title=\"Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was \u2018available now\u2019\" \/>Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit<br \/>\nApple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024.<br \/>\nPlaintiffs accused the California tech company of having \u201cpromoted AI capabilities that did not exist at the time, do not exist now, and will not exist for two or more years\u201d in order to boost iPhone sales, according to the suit. Apple\u2019s more \u201cpersonalized\u201d version of Siri still has not been fully released despite its announcement nearly two years ago. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Settlement, which includes no admission of wrongdoing, covers roughly 36m eligible devices in class-action lawsuit Apple on Tuesday agreed to pay $250m to settle a class-action lawsuit accusing it of misleading millions of iPhone buyers by falsely touting artificial intelligence capabilities for its Siri voice assistant in late 2024. Plaintiffs accused the California tech company &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/apple-agrees-to-pay-250m-after-falsely-claiming-ai-powered-siri-was-available-now\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple agrees to pay $250m after falsely claiming AI-powered Siri was \u2018available now\u2019<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}