{"id":19747,"date":"2025-08-13T07:37:47","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/elon-musk-threatens-apple-with-lawsuit-over-openai-sparking-sam-altman-feud\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:37:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:37:47","slug":"elon-musk-threatens-apple-with-lawsuit-over-openai-sparking-sam-altman-feud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/elon-musk-threatens-apple-with-lawsuit-over-openai-sparking-sam-altman-feud\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire accuses Apple of \u2018unequivocal antitrust violation\u2019 over app rankings, prompting testy response<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/elon-musk\">Elon Musk<\/a> has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/openai\">OpenAI<\/a> and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/sam-altman\">Sam Altman<\/a>, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cApple 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. xAI will take immediate legal action,\u201d Musk said in a post on X.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/aug\/12\/elon-musk-apple-openai-sam-altman\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/03cf5e46c2e5dc88a53d959c59f1d1387d4142ed\/375_0_3750_3000\/master\/3750.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=87b3cd878ad503149d0b5fd0367ba52d\" title=\"Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud\" \/>Billionaire accuses Apple of \u2018unequivocal antitrust violation\u2019 over app rankings, prompting testy response<br \/>\nElon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam Altman, the OpenAI CEO, and began a spat between the two former business partners on X.<br \/>\n\u201cApple 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. xAI will take immediate legal action,\u201d Musk said in a post on X. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire accuses Apple of \u2018unequivocal antitrust violation\u2019 over app rankings, prompting testy response Elon Musk has threatened legal action against Apple on behalf of his artificial intelligence startup xAI, accusing the iPhone maker of favoring OpenAI and breaching antitrust regulations in managing the rankings in its App Store. The posts elicited snide responses from Sam &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/13\/elon-musk-threatens-apple-with-lawsuit-over-openai-sparking-sam-altman-feud\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking Sam Altman feud<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":19748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}