X Corp. and X.AI LLC filed a federal lawsuit on Monday alleging that Apple and OpenAI’s exclusive ChatGPT integration violates federal competition law.

Plaintiffs accused the two companies of violating antitrust laws by reinforcing effective monopolies in their respective markets. The lawsuit stated that Apple currently owns a 65 percent US marketshare for smartphones, while OpenAI maintains an 80 percent marketshare for generative AI chatbots.

The complaint, filed in the US District Court for Northern District of Texas, raised multiple federal antitrust claims under the Sherman Act . Under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the lawsuit argued that Apple and OpenAI leveraged their scale and market dominance to unlawfully restrain trade and stifle competition. The complaint further alleg

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