<h1>Entrepreneur sues device maker and AI developer for alleged anticompetitive exclusivity harming rival chatbots, seeks damages and injunction</h1> A tech entrepreneur's companies filed an antitrust suit in Texas federal court accusing a major device maker and a leading AI developer of conspiring to suppress competition by granting exclusive integrations and app-store prominence to the developer's AI, disadvantaging rival chatbot makers and limiting their access to valuable device-generated data. The complaint seeks monetary damages and injunctive relief, alleging the partnership functioned to protect the device maker's franchise and to improperly elevate the partner's AI as the device's 'answer engine.' The developer has responded with a separate harassment suit against the entrepreneur; regulators' prior antitrust scrutiny of the device maker is cited as context.