Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI drop antitrust lawsuit against Apple

The companies had accused Apple of favouring OpenAI’s ChatGPT over rival AI chatbots.Published On 14 Sep 202614 Sep 2026Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI have dropped their antitrust lawsuit against Apple, ending a legal challenge that accused the iPhone maker of conspiring with OpenAI to shut rivals out of the generative artificial intelligence market.The companies said in a court filing on Monday that they had moved to dismiss their claims against Apple. The filing did not give a reason for the decision or say whether the parties had reached a settlement.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump dismisses calls for AI slowdown from leading tech CEOslist 2 of 3US pushes looser approach to AI regulation, while EU pushes new lawlist 3 of 3‘Silent Cold War’: Why calls to slow AI have sparked new US–China frontierend of listThe lawsuit, filed in August 2025 in United States federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, accused Apple and OpenAI of violating US antitrust law through an agreement that made ChatGPT the only generative AI chatbot integrated into Apple’s iPhone operating system.X and SpaceXAI, which develops the Grok chatbot, argued that Apple’s arrangement gave ChatGPT acces...