{"id":1657,"date":"2025-08-12T15:39:34","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2025-08-12T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:23:46","slug":"musk-threatens-to-sue-apple-over-x-grok-absence-on-recommended-apps-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/musk-threatens-to-sue-apple-over-x-grok-absence-on-recommended-apps-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk threatens to sue Apple over X, Grok absence on recommended apps list"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk threatened to sue Apple<\/a> on Monday for not including his social platform X or artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok on the App Store\u2019s list of recommended apps. <\/p>\n

\u201cHey @Apple App Store, why do you refuse to put either X or Grok in your \u2018Must Have\u2019 section when X is the #1 news app in the world and Grok is #5 among all apps?\u201d Musk wrote on X. \u201cAre you playing politics? What gives? Inquiring minds want to know.\u201d <\/p>\n

Several hours later, he escalated the dispute, suggesting xAI would take \u201cimmediate legal action\u201d against the iPhone maker. The tech billionaire\u2019s AI firm xAI acquired X for $45 billion in March. <\/p>\n

\u201cApple 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,\u201d Musk added. <\/p>\n

A “community note” attached to his own post noted DeepSeek reached the top spot on Apple’s App Store in January. The No. 1 spot is currently held by OpenAI’s ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Musk has long had a contentious relationship with OpenAI<\/a>, which he helped found in 2015. Since his departure, the tech mogul has sued the AI firm over its close partnership with Microsoft and its push to transform into a for-profit company.<\/p>\n

His chatbot Grok, which currently sits in the fifth spot in Apple’s App Store, was briefly suspended from Musk\u2019s own social platform Monday. The AI chatbot said in response to a query that the reason for its suspension remains unclear. <\/p>\n

However, it also noted that \u201cGrok itself claimed in now-deleted posts that the suspension was due to comments it made accusing Israel and the US of committing genocide in Gaza, citing sources like ICJ [International Court of Justice] rulings, UN reports, Amnesty International, and B\u2019Tselem.\u201d  <\/p>\n

\u201cThese posts were flagged for violating X\u2019s hateful conduct rules,\u201d it added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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