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Elon Musk's companies, X Corp and xAI, filed a 61-page antitrust lawsuit on August 25, 2025, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas against Apple Inc. and OpenAI entities. The complaint states that Apple, which holds approximately 65% of the U.S. smartphone market, and OpenAI, which controls over 80% of the generative AI chatbot market, have entered into an anticompetitive agreement to maintain their respective monopolies and suppress rivals, including xAI's Grok chatbot.

At the core of the suit is Apple's and OpenAI's June 2024 partnership, which exclusively integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT into Apple's iOS, making it the default and sole generative AI chatbot for certain iPhone features, such as Siri responses, camera integrations, and writing tools. Plaintiffs express that this deal forecloses competitors from accessing billions of user prompts from hundreds of millions of iPhones, thereby amplifying network effects and scale advantages that enable ChatGPT to improve more rapidly while restricting rivals' growth and innovation. The lawsuit argues this entrenches both companies' market dominance, suppresses the development of AI-powered "super apps" that could disrupt Apple's smartphone ecosystem, and harms consumers through reduced choices, lower quality, and higher prices.

The complaint also reports that Apple has manipulated App Store rankings to deprioritize competing apps, such as X and Grok, delayed Grok app updates, and rejected feature requests. These allegations mirror those in the U.S. Department of Justice's ongoing antitrust case against Apple, which alleges that Apple uses the App Store to bury competitors. It underlines OpenAI's shift from a nonprofit focused on benefiting humanity to a profit-driven entity, citing internal resignations, safety concerns, and FTC investigations into its practices as evidence of prioritizing dominance over ethical AI development.

Key claims include violations of Sections 1 and 2 of the Sherman Act (unreasonable restraint of trade, monopolization, and conspiracy to monopolize), as well as Texas state antitrust and unfair competition laws. Plaintiffs seek billions in damages, including trebled antitrust damages and punitive awards, a permanent injunction to end the exclusive deal and open iOS integrations to rivals, and a jury trial.

This lawsuit may have far-reaching implications for ongoing disputes on AI competition and antitrust enforcement across the technology industry.

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https://x.com/tetsuoai/status/1960434710976586081?t=yah7LAbgyZYjJXN_Os-HLA&s=35

2025年8月25日，埃隆·马斯克旗下公司X Corp和xAI向美国德克萨斯州北区联邦地区法院对苹果公司和OpenAI实体提起了长达61页的反垄断诉讼。诉状称，占据美国智能手机市场约65%份额的苹果公司和控制着生成式AI聊天机器人市场超过80%份额的OpenAI公司达成了一项反竞争协议，以维护各自的垄断地位并压制竞争对手，其中包括xAI的Grok聊天机器人。

该诉讼的核心是苹果公司和OpenAI于2024年6月达成的合作伙伴关系，该合作伙伴关系将OpenAI的ChatGPT独家集成到苹果的iOS系统中，使其成为某些iPhone功能（例如Siri响应、摄像头集成和写作工具）的默认且唯一的生成式AI聊天机器人。原告表示，这笔交易阻止了竞争对手获取来自数亿部 iPhone 的数十亿条用户提示，从而放大了网络效应和规模优势，使 ChatGPT 能够更快地改进，同时限制了竞争对手的增长和创新。诉讼认为，这巩固了两家公司的市场主导地位，抑制了可能颠覆苹果智能手机生态系统的人工智能“超级应用”的开发，并通过减少选择、降低质量和提高价格损害了消费者的利益。

投诉还称，苹果操纵了 App Store 排名，降低了 X 和 Grok 等竞争应用的优先级，推迟了 Grok 应用的更新，并拒绝了功能请求。这些指控与美国司法部正在进行的针对苹果的反垄断案如出一辙，该案指控苹果利用 App Store 压制竞争对手。这份诉讼凸显了 OpenAI 从一个专注于造福人类的非营利组织转变为一个以盈利为导向的实体，并指出内部员工辞职、安全隐患以及联邦贸易委员会 (FTC) 对其行为的调查，都表明 OpenAI 优先考虑主导地位而非符合伦理道德的人工智能开发。

主要指控包括违反《谢尔曼法案》第 1 条和第 2 条（不合理的贸易限制、垄断和共谋垄断），以及德克萨斯州的反垄断法和不正当竞争法。原告寻求数十亿美元的赔偿，包括三倍的反垄断赔偿金和惩罚性赔偿、永久禁令以终止独家协议并向竞争对手开放 iOS 集成，以及陪审团审判。

这起诉讼可能对科技行业正在进行的人工智能竞争和反垄断执法纠纷产生深远影响。

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