Musk Accuses Apple of Unfairly Favoring OpenAI on iPhone (3)

Aug. 12, 2025, 9:51 PM UTC

Elon Musk lashed out against Apple Inc.’s app store practices late on Monday, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI.

The billionaire founder of xAI Holdings, which now houses the Grok artificial intelligence team and X social network, said Apple makes it impossible for anyone other than OpenAI to reach the top of the App Store charts, a sought-after global spotlight for app developers. In a post on his X account, Musk asked if Apple is “playing politics” by not highlighting his products.

His comments mark the biggest fight that Musk has picked since his confrontation with US ...

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