Elon Musk’s SpaceXAI Decides It’s No Longer Worried About Apple’s iPhone Monopoly
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Dropping the Apple antitrust push while keeping pressure on OpenAI clarifies where the strategic threat is perceived to be—model and data control, not handset distribution. For operators, the takeaway is simple: distribution moats are being repriced against foundation-model moats.
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