X and xAI file antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI over Grok

X Corp. and xAI filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple and OpenAI on August 25, 2025, in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, accusing the companies of conspiring to bury Grok, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot, in favor of ChatGPT. What the lawsuit was about The core allegation was straightforward: Apple’s decision to deeply integrate ChatGPT into iOS gave OpenAI’s product a structural advantage that competitors like Grok couldn’t overcome through merit alone. The plaintiffs argued that this integration harmed Grok’s visibility, damaged its App Store ranking, and effectively locked xAI out of a distribution channel that reaches over a billion iPhone users. The companies sought billions in damages, contending that Apple’s preferential treatment for ChatGPT amounted to anticompetitive collusion. Apple and OpenAI both moved to dismiss the case. On November 13, 2025, a federal judge denied those motions, allowing the lawsuit to proceed to discovery. The discovery phase became notable for its extensive disputes over evidence production, with key rulings in 2026 that included adding Apple’s Craig Federighi, the company’s senior vice president of software engineering, as a do...