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Report: China is forcing Apple Intelligence delays as trade war leverage


China is reportedly holding up approval of Apple Intelligence as an effort to maintain leverage in the ongoing US-China trade war.

Apple’s rollout of artificial intelligence services in China with Alibaba is being held up by a Beijing regulator, as the tech partnership becomes the latest casualty of Donald Trump’s trade war. The tech giants have been working together to launch Apple Intelligence, the iPhone-maker’s suite of AI services, for Chinese users. This necessity is no doubt behind Apple being unable to ship its AI features as soon as it wanted in China, where iPhone sales have seemed to take a hit in the face of stiff competition.

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