"Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation," Musk wrote in

The billionaire said in posts on X that the consumer tech giant was violating antitrust laws by giving preferential treatment to OpenAI on the App Store.

He added that X and his Grok AI chatbot are excluded from the App Store’s “Must Have” list when the apps rank as #1 in news and #5 overall, respectively – asking if Apple is “playing

Elon Musk suggested without evidence that Apple blocked AI apps that aren't made by OpenAI from topping the App Store. DeepSeek did it this year.

In October 2022, Elon Musk officially took over X and moved quickly to lay off over 70 percent of the workforce. Former staffers subsequently filed a lawsuit claiming they received only a month of severance pay or, in some cases, no severance at all.

Elon Musk has announced plans to sue Apple Inc. over the fact that the iOS version of ChatGPT is the top-ranked app in the App Store. “Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1 in the App Store,

Elon Musk has accused Apple of committing an "unequivocal antitrust violation" by favoring OpenAI in the App Store rankings.

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Elon Musk threatened to sue Apple for allegedly burying his Grok AI app under competing offerings in its App Store.

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