A judge ordered that X and xAI's lawsuit accusing Apple and OpenAI of trying to maintain monopolies in artificial intelligence markets must remain in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, despite "at best minimal connections" to that geographic area by any of the companies.

Judge Mark Pittman , in a sharply ironic four-page order on Thursday, encouraged the companies to relocate their headquarters to Fort Worth, given their preference for the antitrust lawsuit to be heard there.

In a footnote, he even flagged the companies to the website of the Business Services unit of the City of Fort Worth "to get the process started" of relocating there.

Pittman's order implicitly aims at the tendency of some plaintiffs of a conservative bent to file lawsuits in the Fort Worth

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