Judge scrutinizes Musk’s move to drop Apple from antitrust lawsuit involving OpenAI

Federal Judge Mark Pittman is requesting details regarding any agreement that may have prompted Elon Musk's companies, X and SpaceXAI, to drop their antitrust claims against Apple. This comes after the companies submitted a motion to voluntarily dismiss their claims in the lawsuit they filed against Apple and OpenAI last year. The lawsuit was initiated due to Apple and OpenAI allegedly colluding to prevent competing AI apps from gaining visibility on the App Store by integrating ChatGPT into Siri and Apple Intelligence.

However, Apple and OpenAI have rejected these claims. In their recent filing, X and SpaceXAI stated that they had "resolved their claims in this Action against" Apple, but emphasized that they did not withdraw their claims against OpenAI. Judge Pittman's order to provide the court with any agreement or combination of agreements between X and SpaceXAI and Apple, in relation to the resolution of claims against Apple, was in response to an emergency motion filed by OpenAI.

Judge Pittman also set a deadline for X and SpaceXAI to respond to OpenAI's motion by noon on September 17.