Musk launches legal assault against his top rival

Elon Musk has launched a new legal assault against his xAI rival OpenAl, accusing the ChatGPT maker of colluding with Apple, to freeze his own products out of the market.

- To Dodds and Michael Liedtke, The Independent

In a 61-page antitrust complaint filed in federal court in Texas on Monday, lawyers for the tech tycoon claimed the two companies had broken the law by making a deal to integrate ChatGPT into Apple's iPhone operating system. They also accused Apple of illegally suppressing Musk's competing chatbot Grok in its App Store rankings and deliberately slow-rolling the approval process for new updates. The lawsuit doubles down on Musk’s recent rants on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, in which he complained about Grok not ranking higher in Apple’s charts and claimed without evidence that this must be the result of a conspiracy. It marks the latest twist in Musk’s years-long feud with OpenAl, which he originally helped bankroll but has now come to regard as a bitter rival.