Overview

• U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled that OpenAI’s allegations of a “years-long harassment campaign” by Elon Musk are legally sufficient to proceed.
• The court scheduled a jury trial for March 16, 2026, marking the next phase in the high-stakes legal battle between Musk and the company he co-founded.
• Elon Musk claimed Apple’s App Store unfairly spots ChatGPT in editorial sections while excluding his X and Grok apps, warning he will take immediate legal action.
• Apple responded that its App Store is “designed to be fair and free of bias,” noting that charts and curated lists rely on objective, expert-driven criteria.
• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman publicly rebutted Musk’s antitrust accusation by pointing to community-verified data showing other AI apps have also topped App Store charts and challenging Musk to affirm he never manipulated X’s algorithm.