Apple was facing increasing questions about its plans for artificial intelligence as other big tech companies invested tens of billions in the technology.

Apple’s decision to pay Google billions of dollars to harness Gemini to “help power future Apple Intelligence features” is good news for iPhone users. This will drive “a more personalized Siri coming this year,” which is desperately needed. But the joint statement is bad news for Samsung. And its timing could not be worse.

Three Democratic U.S. senators are calling on Apple and Alphabet's Google to remove X and its built-in artificial intelligence chatbot Grok from their app stores, citing the spread of nonconsensual sexual images of women and minors on the platform.