Elon Musk’s companies sue Apple and OpenAI for hurting AI competition; says: ‘In a desperate bid to…’

Elon Musk-owned companies, X and xAI, have filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI, accusing them of an “anticompetitive scheme” to restrict the growth of AI rivals. According to a report by CNBC, the recent lawsuit alleges that the two companies have “colluded” to maintain monopolies in the smartphone and generative AI markets. The legal complaint also accuses Apple of giving preference to OpenAI’s ChatGPT by integrating it into Apple products while actively deprioritising competing AI chatbots, such as xAI’s Grok, in its App Store rankings. This lawsuit follows Musk’s public threat earlier this month to sue Apple for what he called an “unequivocal antitrust violation.”