New Delhi, June 15 -- CUPERTINO - Somewhere between Apple Park's keynote stage and the iOS 27 developer beta, a feature vanished. Apple built a fully operational framework to let iPhone users swap between ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude directly inside Siri. It built the settings panel. It built the dedicated App Store section. It even opened negotiations with all three companies about the terms. Then, on June 8, it said nothing.

That silence is now the most revealing thing Apple has done in its AI push - because it exposes a contradiction at the heart of the company's strategy, and a trap closing around OpenAI that no amount of legal maneuvering will easily resolve.

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported Sunday that the iOS ...