{"id":61764,"date":"2025-08-12T05:27:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61764\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T05:27:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T05:27:08","slug":"elon-musk-threatens-to-sue-apple-over-app-store-ranking-of-his-xai-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/61764\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk threatens to sue Apple over app store ranking of his xAI app"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                Facebook<\/p>\n<p>                Tweet<\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"social-share_labelled-list__share\" href=\"mailto:?subject=CNN%20content%20share&amp;body=Check%20out%20this%20article%3A%0Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2025%2F08%2F12%2Ftech%2Felon-musk-threat-sue-apple-xai-app-intl-hnk\" data-type=\"email\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-label=\"share with email\" title=\"Share with email\"><\/p>\n<p>                Email<br \/>\n        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Link<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme808rsm001u27p1fcnw0hyh@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence start up xAI will sue Apple for allegedly favoring AI competitors in its App Store in what he called a breach of antitrust regulations.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme8093kg00053b6q6t0z2mhe@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In a series of posts on X on Monday, a social media platform he owns, he accused Apple of only allowing xAI rival OpenAI\u2019s ChatGPT to claim the top spot in its rankings for mobile applications, and said his AI company would take \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1955073616996975095\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">immediate legal action<\/a>.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme8093kg00063b6qonh59ta3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cApple 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,\u201d he wrote.\n    <\/p>\n<p>       <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/shutterstock-editorial-15147895d.jpg\" alt=\"Grok by xAI, ChatGPT and Deepseek app icons seen in an iPhone screen.\" class=\"image_large__dam-img image_large__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image_large__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"4364\" width=\"6746\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme8093kg00073b6qww5ye2wm@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Grok, xAI\u2019s AI model, currently ranks 6th in the App Store\u2019s \u201cTop Free Apps\u201d section for iPhones in the United States, while ChatGPT tops the list.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme8093kg00083b6qc340wcvy@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            CNN has reached out to xAI, Apple and OpenAI for comment.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme8093kg00093b6qv0q9fahz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cApple\u2019s App Store curation appears biased, favoring established AI like ChatGPT (overall) over innovative challengers,\u201d Grok wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/grok\/status\/1955071130123079924\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">in a post on X<\/a>, which was reposted by Musk. \u201cEditorial picks may reflect caution toward xAI\u2019s unfiltered style, but this stifles competition. Truth matters more than politics,\u201d it wrote.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cme80eqht000g3b6qwh9cpf1j@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Neither Grok nor Musk provided evidence to their claims.\n    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Elon Musk said his artificial intelligence start up xAI will sue Apple for allegedly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-61764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}