Elon Musk threatened Apple with a lawsuit – and launched a testy back-and-forth on X with OpenAI’s Sam Altman as he accused the App Store of violating antitrust laws by unfairly favoring ChatGPT over Musk’s Grok chatbot.

“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. xAI will take immediate legal action,” Musk wrote in a post on his social media platform X Monday.

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 politics.” 3

Apple did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.

In response to Musk’s accusations, Alt

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