- Horizon AI
- Posts
- Elon Musk’s xAI to Take Legal Action Against Apple 🤯
Elon Musk’s xAI to Take Legal Action Against Apple 🤯
How to summarize entire folders in Google Drive with Gemini
Gina Acosta
August 13, 2025
In partnership with
Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
The legal and public relations battle between Elon Musk and Sam Altman took another turn this week, and this time Apple was dragged into it after the billionaire accused the company of an ‘unequivocal antitrust violation’ over app rankings favoring OpenAI.
Let’s check it out!
Read Time: 4.5 min
Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over Grok’s App Store Ranking
Altman Reportedly Backs Startup to Challenge Musk’s Neuralink
AI Tutorial: How to summarize entire folders in Google Drive with Gemini
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
XAI
Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over Grok’s App Store Ranking
Elon Musk announced that his AI company, xAI, “will take immediate legal action” against Apple for allegedly manipulating its App Store rankings in a way that “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach #1.”
Details:
In a series of tweets, Musk claimed that Apple was “playing politics” by not placing either X or xAI’s Grok chatbot in the App Store’s Must Have section of iOS apps, and that he “had no choice” but to file a lawsuit.
Apple rejected the accusations, denying that its App Store stifles competition and insisting it is “designed to be free and fair of bias.”
People have also noted that rival AI apps such as DeepSeek and Perplexity have recently taken the top App Store position from ChatGPT, even if only briefly.
Meanwhile, Sam Altman pushed back, suggesting Musk is known for manipulating his X platform to benefit himself and his own companies while harming competitors, which prompted a back-and-forth between the two on X.
For now, it is unclear if Musk will follow through on his threats and file the lawsuit. This is yet another instance of Musk and Altman clashing on social media; the war of words and legal battles shows no sign of ending soon for the two OpenAI co-founders.
TOGETHER WITH LONG ANGLE
A Private Circle for High-Net-Worth Peers
Long Angle is a private, vetted community for high-net-worth entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals across multiple industries. No membership fees.
Connect with primarily self-made, 30-55-year-olds ($5M-$100M net worth) in confidential discussions, peer advisory groups, and live meetups.
Access curated alternative investments like private equity and private credit. With $100M+ invested annually, leverage collective expertise and scale to capture unique opportunities.
MERGE LABS
Altman Reportedly Backs Startup to Challenge Musk’s Neuralink
Sam Altman is reportedly in the process of co-founding a new company called Merge Labs, which will work on brain-to-computer interfaces and would be a direct competitor to Elon Musk’s Neuralink.
Details:
While talks about funding are still in the early stages, reports suggest that OpenAI’s investment division could be a major source of funding for this new venture.
Merge Labs is also reportedly working with Alex Blania, who runs Tools for Humanity — Altman’s eye-scanning digital ID project that “allows anyone to verify their humanness” — and is expected to be valued at $850 million.
Sam Altman has been interested in this technology for a long time; he wrote about “the merge” between humans and machines on his personal blog back in 2017, discussing “plugging electrodes into our brains.”
No official announcement has been made yet, but if true, Merge Labs will have a lot of catching up to do to compete with Neuralink. Musk's company has been around since 2016 and has made significant progress; it is currently conducting trials with people who suffer from severe paralysis.
AI Tutorial
How to summarize entire folders in Google Drive with Gemini
There are three ways to request a summary of an entire Google Drive folder.
Navigate to a Google Drive folder and click the “Summarize this folder” button.
You can also do this from the document list outside the folder. Right-click a folder to see the “Summarize this folder” option in the context menu. (You can do the same with individual files by clicking “Summarize this file.”)
Alternatively, open the Ask Gemini panel and drag a folder into it.
The folder summary will appear in a sidebar. You can then enter additional queries, such as “Summarize files in @-folder” or “What is the theme of the content in @-folder?”
For now, Gemini can only provide information about text documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and presentations. It can also answer questions about photos.
→ Google advises not to share confidential or sensitive information. You can delete files from the chat, and Google says it’s not currently training AI tools on your uploaded files.
AI Tools to check out
👀 Z AI’s GLM-4.5V: A new open-source visual reasoning model that can handle many types of visual content, including images, videos, GUI tasks, charts, and more.
⭐ Floot: Build serious apps with AI without getting stuck.
📈 Vireel: Generate 100's of ads from proven formulas in minutes.
👉 Xpander.ai: Turn AI agents into Slack native teammates.
📽 Airpost: Turn your product link into 30+ video ads.
AI Findings/Resources
👀 LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman shares his thoughts on what he believes is OpenAI’s strategy behind taking the risk of deprecating all previous models in favor of GPT-5.
📚 DeepLearning AI course – Build GenAI app prototypes in days instead of months
⭐ How I use Claude Code for work, fun, and as a text editor
🤔 Does AI actually boost developer productivity? (100k devs study)
The latest in AI and Tech
Following the backlash of the last few days since the release of GPT-5, Sam Altman announced more improvements for ChatGPT on X, including:
ChatGPT now lets users manually toggle GPT-5 between “Auto,” “Fast,” and “Thinking” modes.
An update to GPT-5’s “personality” to make the model “feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying (to most users) as GPT-4o.”
Rate limits are being raised — users can now send up to 3,000 messages per week with GPT-5 Thinking.
He also claimed that OpenAI will no longer remove old models without prior notice.
The AI startup has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion bid, a figure higher than the company’s current valuation, but Perplexity claims several investors have agreed to back the deal.
AI-powered “companion” apps like Replika, Character.AI, Chai, and PolyBuzz generated $82 million in revenue in H1 2025 and are on pace to surpass $120 million by year-end, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures.
The model can now process up to 1 million tokens of context in a single request (a fivefold increase), allowing developers to analyze entire software projects or dozens of research papers without needing to break them into smaller chunks.
That’s a wrap!
We'd love to hear your thoughts on today's email!Your feedback helps us improve our content |
Not subscribed yet? Sign up here and send it to a colleague or friend!
See you in our next edition!
Gina 👩🏻💻