{"id":109263,"date":"2025-08-25T16:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109263\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T16:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T16:40:11","slug":"elon-musk-sues-apple-openai-over-iphone-ai-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/109263\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Sues Apple, OpenAI Over iPhone AI Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\">Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI over a deal the companies struck to bring ChatGPT to iPhone users, according to a lawsuit <a href=\"https:\/\/fingfx.thomsonreuters.com\/gfx\/legaldocs\/klpybbxzxvg\/x%20v%20apple%20openai%20lawsuit%2020250825.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">filed<\/a> Monday with the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, in Fort Worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">The lawsuit&#8217;s main complaint is that Apple doesn&#8217;t allow iPhone owners to use any other kind of chatbot, like xAI&#8217;s Grok. Because of this, consumers are locked into using ChatGPT, which gives OpenAI the &#8220;benefits from billions of user prompts,&#8221; which helps the company improve its AI and scale its business.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also alleges that Apple manipulated rankings in its App Stores to deprioritize non-OpenAI chatbots, something Apple has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cn842x1v1n1o\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">previously denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was filed by xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot, and its parent company xAI Corp., which Musk founded and includes social media platform X\/Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for more updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI over a deal the companies struck to bring ChatGPT to iPhone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-109263","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-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}