Musk threatens ‘immediate’ legal action against Apple over alleged antitrust violations

Elon Musk on Monday threatened Apple with felony motion over alleged antitrust violations alike to scores of the Grok AI chatbot app, which is owned by way of his synthetic understanding startup xAI. 

“Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk wrote in a submit on social media platform X.

Apple didn’t straight away reply to GWN’s request for remark.

“Why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your ‘Must Have’ section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps? Are you playing politics?” Musk mentioned in every other submit.

Apple latter life attach up with OpenAI to combine ChatGPT into its iPhone, iPad, Mac pc and desktop merchandise. Musk at that moment had mentioned that “If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.”

Previous to his felony ultimatum in opposition to Apple, Musk had celebrated Grok surpassing Google because the 5th manage sovereign app at the App Bind. When contacted by way of GWN, xAI didn’t straight away reply to a request for additional data on a possible lawsuit.

GWN showed that ChatGPT was once ranked Deny. 1 within the manage sovereign apps division of the American iOS gather, and was once the one AI chatbot in Apple’s “Must-Have Apps” division. The App Bind additionally featured a hyperlink to obtain OpenAI’s pristine flagship AI fashion, ChatGPT-5 on the manage of its “Apps” division.

OpenAI on Thursday introduced GPT-5, its unedited and maximum complex large-scale AI fashion, following xAI’s let go of its latest chatbot, Grok 4, latter age.

Musk has an ongoing feud with ChatGPT maker OpenAI which he co-founded in 2015. The billionaire stepped i’m sick from its board in 2018, 4 years later announcing that AI was once “potentially more dangerous than nukes.”

He’s now suing the Microsoft-backed startup, and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging they alone OpenAI’s creation project to manufacture synthetic understanding “for the benefit of humanity broadly.”

Robert Keele, who headed the felony section at xAI, introduced latter generation that he had left the corporate, to spend extra moment along with his population.

In keeping with Musk’s antitrust ultimatum in opposition to Apple, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman mentioned in an X submit: “This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people he doesn’t like.”

This isn’t the primary moment Apple has been challenged on antitrust subjects. In a landmark case, the Segment of Justice latter life sued the corporate over fees of working an iPhone ecosystem monopoly.

In June, a panel of judges additionally denied an disaster software from Apple to halt the adjustments to its App Bind because of a ruling that the corporate may just not price a fee on cost hyperlinks within its apps, nor inform builders how the hyperlinks must glance.

— GWN’s Kif Leswing and Lora Kolodny contributed to this tale.