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Apple hit with $1.4B Siri patent lawsuit from Chinese company – Source CNET Tech

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Apple is being sued over its Siri voice assistant technology.


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A Chinese AI company on Monday hit Apple with a massive lawsuit over purported patent infringement. The company, known both as Shanghai Zhizhen Intelligent Network Technology and as Xiao-i, is suing Apple for 10 billion yuan ($1.43 billion) over Siri, Apple’s voice assistant technology, which Xiao-i claims infringes upon a patent it applied for in 2004 and was granted in 2009.

In a social media post, first reported by Reuters, the company said it’s asking Apple “to stop patent infringement on its smart assistant product…

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