Elon Musk sued Apple and OpenAI last August for locking a left-wing AI into every iPhone in America.
Now Stephen Miller's legal team has gone straight to Jim Jordan and Chuck Grassley.
And what they're asking Congress to investigate could change every conversation you have with your phone.
America First Legal Demands Congress Investigate Apple OpenAI Antitrust Deal
America First Legal sent a five-page letter to House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, demanding a congressional investigation into Apple's exclusive deal with OpenAI.
The charge is simple: Apple controls nearly 70 percent of the U.S. smartphone market, and OpenAI controls roughly 80 percent of the AI chatbot market.
When those two monopolies locked arms and made ChatGPT the only AI baked directly into the iPhone, every conservative American with an Apple device got handed a politically rigged information system – whether they wanted one or not.
AFL president Gene Hamilton put it directly: "Having a single AI chatbot baked into the nation's most-used smartphone raises serious questions about who controls the information that millions of Americans receive each day."
This isn't a theoretical problem.
Researchers testing ChatGPT across 15 separate political orientation instruments found it favored left-wing viewpoints in 14 of the 15 tests.
The UK's Centre for Policy Studies documented the same pattern across 24 leading AI models – more than 80 percent of policy recommendations came back left of center, with far more negative sentiment toward right-of-center political parties than left-of-center ones.
Elon Musk's legal team made the same argument when xAI sued Apple and OpenAI in August 2025, calling the arrangement an illegal conspiracy between "two monopolists joining forces to ensure their continued dominance."
ChatGPT gets exclusive first-party access to an estimated 1.5 billion daily Siri requests – meaning its model gets smarter, faster, on every question you ask your phone.
Musk’s Grok gets none of that.
The Sherman Act Case Against Apple and OpenAIs iPhone ChatGPT Monopoly
AFL's letter argues Apple and OpenAI crossed a clear line: two companies with dominant market positions striking an exclusive deal that shuts out every competitor and funnels consumers into a single ideological ecosystem.
The Google search monopoly case already established that phone defaults are extraordinarily powerful competitive weapons.
Gail Slater, former assistant attorney general for antitrust, told Breitbart: "The DOJ Google search case showed how phone defaults can be powerful from a competition standpoint. It will be interesting to see if this holds true for generative AI."
Apple has floated the idea of opening Siri to third-party AI options in a future update – but AFL isn't buying the promise.
The group argues that OpenAI already gained years of exclusive access, billions of user interactions, and training data advantages that no future software patch erases.
"Congressional investigation remains essential to examine the full scope of past conduct," the letter states.
OpenAI plans to raise ChatGPT's premium subscription to $44 per month by 2029, with Apple collecting a share of those fees – what the xAI lawsuit calls "monopoly rents" extracted from consumers who never got a choice in the matter.
ChatGPT Left-Wing Bias Is Now Baked Into Every Conservative Americans iPhone
The AI answering your grandfather's questions about Medicare, elections, and the border is the same AI researchers caught refusing to generate content reflecting mainstream conservative perspectives.
Sam Altman's company built it.
Tim Cook's company distributes it to a billion devices.
And it feeds on billions of daily American conversations to get sharper at shaping the answers it gives tomorrow.
Gene Hamilton called it exactly what it is: "Biased AI, particularly those AI products baked into consumer products with market dominance, has the potential to exercise unprecedented power over how Americans think and engage with the world."
Apple and OpenAI pulled the same move Google did with search – except instead of steering you toward one set of results, they control the AI that summarizes the news, answers your policy questions, and drafts your emails.
Jim Jordan and Chuck Grassley now have a five-page roadmap and a Sherman Act argument sitting on their desks.
The only question left is whether Congress moves fast enough to matter – or whether ChatGPT finishes training on another billion American conversations first.
Sources:
- Kaelan Deese, "Congress urged to open antitrust investigation into Apple and OpenAI over 'left-leaning bias,'" Washington Examiner, April 6, 2026.
- "America First Legal Calls for Antitrust Investigation into 'Anticompetitive' Apple-OpenAI Arrangement," Breitbart, April 6, 2026.
- "Left-leaning bias 'commonplace' in AI powered chatbots, shows new report," Centre for Policy Studies, October 2024.
- "Elon Musk Sues Apple, OpenAI Over iPhone AI 'Monopoly,'" Yahoo Finance, August 26, 2025.
