{"id":188974,"date":"2025-08-25T17:30:38","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-alleging-anticompetitive-collusion-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T17:30:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T17:30:38","slug":"elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-alleging-anticompetitive-collusion-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-alleging-anticompetitive-collusion-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s xAI sues Apple and OpenAI, alleging anticompetitive collusion | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elon Musk\u2019s X and xAI filed a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/legaldocs\/klpybbxzxvg\/x%20v%20apple%20openai%20lawsuit%2020250825.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">lawsuit<\/a> against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, alleging that the two companies are colluding to stifle competition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn a desperate bid to protect its smartphone monopoly, Apple has joined forces with the company that most benefits from inhibiting competition and innovation in AI: OpenAI, a monopolist in the market for generative AI chatbots,\u201d the lawsuit reads, referring to Apple\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2024\/06\/introducing-apple-intelligence-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac\" target=\"_blank\">partnership<\/a> with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into its systems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This lawsuit is part of a long series of disputes between Musk and Altman, who continue to throw public jabs at one another. Once a co-founder and co-chair of OpenAI, Musk has <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/03\/01\/elon-musk-openai-sam-altman-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sued<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/04\/judge-rejects-musks-attempt-to-block-openais-for-profit-transition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">block<\/a> OpenAI\u2019s transition into a for-profit company. He also submitted an <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/10\/elon-musk-led-team-submits-97-4b-bid-for-openai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">unsolicited bid<\/a> to take over OpenAI for $97.4 billion, which the company rejected.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">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&#8217;t like. <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HlgzO4c2iC\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/HlgzO4c2iC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sam Altman (@sama) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sama\/status\/1955094792804720660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\">August 12, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Musk posted anticompetitive allegations against OpenAI and Apple on X earlier this month, claiming that it\u2019s \u201cimpossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The partnership between Apple and OpenAI was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/newsroom\/2024\/06\/introducing-apple-intelligence-for-iphone-ipad-and-mac\/#:~:text=Compose%20allows%20users%20to%20access,styles%20to%20complement%20their%20writing.&amp;text=Privacy%20protections%20are%20built%20in,features%20right%20from%20these%20experiences.&amp;text=Apple%20Intelligence%20is%20free%20for,.com\/apple%2Dintelligence.\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> last June, with <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/12\/11\/apple-releases-new-apple-intelligence-features-including-chatgpt-integration-with-ios-18-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">collaborative features<\/a> expected to ship in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OpenAI and Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/08\/25\/elon-musks-xai-sues-apple-and-openai-alleging-anticompetitive-collusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk\u2019s X and xAI filed a lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on Monday, alleging that the two companies are colluding to stifle competition. \u201cIn a desperate bid to protect its smartphone monopoly, Apple has joined forces with the company that most benefits from inhibiting competition and innovation in AI: OpenAI, a monopolist in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-188974","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}