Federal judge Mark Pittman wants details on any agreement that may have led Elon Musk’s companies to drop their antitrust claims against Apple. Here are the details.
Earlier this week, X and SpaceXAI submitted a motion to voluntarily dismiss with prejudice their claims against Apple in the case they brought against Apple and OpenAI last year.
According to the original filing, Apple and OpenAI were colluding to keep competing AI apps from gaining visibility on the App Store, as a result of their agreement to integrate ChatGPT into Siri and Apple Intelligence. Apple and OpenAI rejected the claims.
In its filing earlier this week, X and SpaceXAI said only that they had “resolved their claims in this Action against” Apple, stressing that they did not seek to dismiss their claims against OpenAI.
Now, as first reported by POLITICO, Judge Mark Pittman, who has been overseeing the case, has ordered X and SpaceXAI to provide the court with “any agreement or combination of agreements with Apple that relate to the resolution of Plaintiffs’ claims against Apple in this litigation.”
The order came in response to an emergency motion filed by OpenAI seeking to compel X and SpaceXAI to produce their agreement resolving the dispute with Apple. Pittman also ordered the companies to respond to OpenAI’s motion by noon on September 17.
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Marcus Mendes is a Brazilian tech podcaster and journalist who has been closely following Apple since the mid-2000s.
He began covering Apple news in Brazilian media in 2012 and later broadened his focus to the wider tech industry, hosting a daily podcast for seven years.
