The filing
Elon Musk’s X Corp and SpaceXAI on Monday asked a federal court in Texas to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple, while keeping their case against OpenAI alive, Yahoo Finance reported, citing Reuters and CNBC.
The filing gave no reason for dropping Apple and no indication of whether the parties had reached a settlement. The companies involved did not respond to requests for comment, according to the report. As The Next Web put it, a voluntary dismissal is not a finding, and no terms have been disclosed.
What the case was about
Musk’s companies sued in August 2025, seeking billions over Apple’s decision to build ChatGPT into the iPhone’s operating system. They alleged that Apple, working in concert with OpenAI, had foreclosed competition and “locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing”.
Apple and OpenAI denied the claims and said their arrangement was never exclusive. OpenAI called the suit part of “a pattern of harassment” by Musk, who co-founded the company and later left, PYMNTS reported. A judge ruled in November that the case could proceed, an early win for Musk’s side.
What is left
The remaining claims accuse OpenAI of anticompetitive conduct to keep an illegal monopoly over chatbots. Without Apple as a defendant, the case continues against OpenAI alone.
That changes the shape of the argument. The original complaint treated the iPhone integration as the mechanism of the alleged harm: Apple’s distribution plus OpenAI’s product, working together. With Apple out, Musk’s companies will have to show that OpenAI’s position in chatbots is unlawful on its own terms, rather than as a product of one distribution deal.
OpenAI’s description of the suit as harassment signals that it does not expect a quiet resolution.
The timing
The dismissal landed on the day Apple released iOS 27, whose rebuilt Siri was trained with Google’s Gemini models, as Aivio News reported last week. There is no indication in the filing that the release and the dismissal are connected.
Europe’s gap
The Next Web draws a European comparison. The EU’s Digital Markets Act lists virtual assistants among the ten services it can regulate, but no assistant has ever been designated. Conduct of the kind the Texas suit targeted therefore sits inside Europe’s categories and outside its enforcement.
What to watch
Whether any agreement between Apple and Musk’s companies becomes public, and what the court sets as the next steps for the claims against OpenAI.
