Apple Agrees to Pay $250 Million to Settle Siri AI Upgrade Lawsuit

California. Tech giant Apple has agreed to pay 250 million US dollars to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders regarding the delay in Artificial Intelligence (AI) upgrades to its popular voice assistant 'Siri'.

This agreement, reached on Tuesday, signals that Apple will be freed from a long-standing legal entanglement in court.

This dispute began in 2024 when a shareholder named Peter Landseft filed a lawsuit against Apple in a US federal court in California. At Apple's 2024 annual software developer conference (WWDC), Apple made a big announcement that it would provide many powerful AI features in Siri along with new iPhones and aggressively advertised it. However, when the new iPhones came to the market, those announced AI features were not included.

The plaintiffs claimed that this delay affected the company's reputation and share price, causing significant financial losses to shareholders. In 2025, Apple clarified that a full AI overhaul of Siri would not come before this year. Recently, Apple executives confirmed that new Siri features will only be unveiled at the annual developer conference to be held in the coming months.

In this settlement, Apple has not admitted any fault or weakness. The settlement still requires final approval from a court judge to be fully implemented.

Apple, in a statement, claimed that since the launch of 'Apple Intelligence' in 2024, the company has already brought many other AI features to users.

Defending itself, Apple wrote in its statement, 'Apple has reached this agreement to resolve claims related to the availability of two additional features. We have settled this matter to continue focusing on our core mission of providing our users with the most innovative products and services.'