X Corp. Moves to Dismiss Apple From Antitrust Suit, Keeping OpenAI Claims

X Corp. and SpaceXAI LLC asked a federal judge on September 14, 2026, to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple Inc. with prejudice, telling the court the claims have been resolved while expressly continuing the case against the OpenAI defendants.

The Dismissal Filing

In a motion filed September 14, 2026 in X Corp. v. Apple Inc., pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, the two companies stated that they “have resolved their claims” against Apple and moved to dismiss those claims with prejudice under the federal rule governing voluntary dismissal by court order. The filing states that Apple does not oppose the motion, and it does not describe the terms of the resolution.

The motion expressly preserves the remainder of the case. It states that the companies do not seek to dismiss any of their claims against OpenAI Foundation, formerly OpenAI, Inc.; OpenAI, L.L.C.; and OpenAI OpCo, LLC, the only other defendants named in the case caption. The filing is signed by attorneys from Axinn LLP, Brown Pruitt Wambsganss Dean Forman & Moore, and Stone Hilton PLLC, and it carries a certificate of service dated September 14, 2026.

The case docket records the motion with an attached proposed order and shows a same-day entry styled as an order of dismissal or administrative closure.

The August 2025 Complaint

X Corp. and X.AI LLC, the company known as xAI, filed the complaint with a jury demand on August 25, 2025, naming Apple and the three OpenAI entities as defendants and describing Apple and OpenAI as “two monopolists.” The complaint alleged that a June 2024 agreement between the two companies made ChatGPT the only generative AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone.

According to the complaint, Apple holds a 65 percent share of the U.S. smartphone market and OpenAI controls at least 80 percent of the generative AI chatbot market. The filing alleged that Siri’s 1.5 billion daily user requests as of 2024 amounted to giving OpenAI exclusive access to up to 55 percent of all potential generative AI chatbot prompts.

The complaint further alleged that Apple deprioritized the X and Grok apps in App Store rankings, delayed reviews of updates to the Grok app, and refused xAI’s request to integrate Grok with iOS. It brought a claim under Section 1 of the Sherman Act, the federal prohibition on agreements in restraint of trade, against all defendants, along with a Section 2 claim accusing Apple of monopolizing the smartphone market. The complaint alleged damages amounting to billions of dollars.

Case Posture and Schedule

Apple and the OpenAI defendants each moved to dismiss the complaint on September 30, 2025. Judge Mark Pittman denied both motions on November 13, 2025, in an order stating it should not be construed as a judgment on the merits of the litigation, and the defendants answered the complaint on December 11, 2025, the docket shows. The court had earlier rejected a venue challenge on October 16, 2025, keeping the case in the Fort Worth Division.

An October 16, 2025 scheduling order initially placed the case on the court’s four-week trial docket beginning October 19, 2026. On April 16, 2026, the court granted a request by the OpenAI defendants to modify that schedule, adjourning the trial to January 11, 2027, with discovery due July 31, 2026, motions due September 15, 2026, and the pretrial order due December 14, 2026. A June 18, 2026 order extended the case’s mediation deadline to December 4, 2026.

On August 14, 2026, the court granted the plaintiffs’ unopposed motion to amend the caption, replacing X.AI LLC with SpaceXAI LLC as a named plaintiff. With the Apple claims resolved, the OpenAI entities remain as the defendants in the case, with the antitrust claims against them continuing toward the January 11, 2027 trial setting.