xAI and X Corp, owned by Elon Musk's SpaceX, have asked a federal judge in Texas to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple, according to a report by Bloomberg. The claims, which were filed in August 2025, alleged that Apple's decision to build ChatGPT into the iPhone's operating system was anticompetitive and sought billions in damages.
However, the companies' monopolization claims against OpenAI, which is also a defendant in the case, are still ongoing. Apple and OpenAI had denied the claims, stating that the arrangement was never exclusive. OpenAI had also called the case part of a pattern of harassment by Musk, who co-founded the company before leaving.
The Digital Markets Act, a European regulation, lists virtual assistants as a core platform service that can be regulated. However, no virtual assistant has ever been designated as such, and the European Commission's April review of the act found that it was well-suited to the rise of AI and did not need to be amended.
Despite this, the Commission will further assess whether some AI services need to be designated as virtual assistants. This development is significant, as the behavior alleged by Musk in the Texas case falls within Europe's categories but outside its enforcement. Meanwhile, Apple has moved on from the controversy, paying Google around $1 billion a year for Gemini to run Siri, while OpenAI spent the spring preparing to sue Apple over the same partnership.
In a separate case, Apple sued OpenAI in July for trade secret theft, accusing the company and its hardware chief of a coordinated effort to take information about unreleased products. This case is already costing OpenAI ahead of any verdict, and the European instrument written for this fight has not been pointed at anybody.
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