Tue. 08/12 – Elon To Sue Apple To Get At Sam?

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Elon says he might take legal action against Apple, but it’s probably his beef with Sam Altman rearing its head once again. A long piece looking at how Jenson won in China, though also, HAS he won WITH China… yet? And is the race to the bottom in AI pricing happening already? Links: Musk says xAI to take legal action against Apple over App Store rankings (Reuters) Tech giants Apple and Google lose landmark court case as federal judge rules they engaged in anti-competitive conduct (ABC) China Urges Firms to Avoid Nvidia H20 Chips After Trump Resumes Sales (Bloomberg) With Billions at Risk, Nvidia CEO Buys His Way Out of the Trade Battle (WSJ) Anthropic offers Claude chatbot to US lawmakers for $1 (FT) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Elon says he might take legal action against Apple, but it's probably his beef with Sam Aldman rearing its head once again. A long piece looking at how Jensen Wong won in China, although also has he won with China yet, and is the race to the bottom in AI pricing happening already?
0:26.7	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:32.7	Elon Musk says XAI will take legal action against Apple saying Apple, quote, makes it impossible for
0:39.2	any AI company besides OpenAI to top its App Store ratings, a move he calls a, quote,
0:45.9	antitrust violation, quoting Reuters. Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for
0:51.6	any AI company besides Open AI to reach number one in the app store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation.
0:57.4	XAI will take immediate legal action, Musk said in a post on his social media platform X.
1:03.0	Apple has a partnership with OpenAI that integrates ChatGBT into iPhones, iPads, and
1:07.2	Max. Musk did not provide evidence to support his claim.
1:11.9	Apple, OpenAI, and XAI did not respond to Reuters' requests for comment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to
1:17.9	Musk on Monday. This is a remarkable claim given what I have heard alleged that Elon does to
1:24.0	manipulate X to benefit himself and his own companies and harm his competitors and people
1:29.4	he doesn't like, he said on X. OpenAI's chat GPT currently holds the top spot in the App Store's
1:35.4	top free apps section in the U.S. Well, XAI's GROC ranks fifth. Hey, at Apple App Store, why do you
1:43.1	refuse to put either X or GROC in your must-have section
1:46.1	when X is the number one news app in the world and GROC is number five among all apps?
1:50.7	Are you playing politics? Musk asked in an earlier post on Monday. Users on X through the
1:56.7	community notes feature have pointed out that a few apps besides OpenAI have taken the top
2:02.0	spot on the app store this year.
2:04.3	Chinese AI app deep seek reached the number one spot on the platform in January, while in
2:08.7	July perplexity took first place in India's app store, both occurring after the OpenAI and
2:13.9	Apple partnership struck last year.
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