Quick teaser: Today's AI Dispatch stitches together five stories that together illustrate where the AI industry is heading in late-2025 - platform power and platform politics Elon Musk's threat to sue Apple over App Store treatment of Grok, a provocative Business/Tech idea about the economics of "one-person unicorns," an intensifying legal front as publishers push back against generative-AI scraping Yomiuri vs. Perplexity, nation-level industrial policy around sovereign AI funds Indonesia, and a life-sciences tie-up showing how AI is moving deeper into biotech R D Apriori Bio Francis Crick Institute. This is an op-ed-style briefing: concise reporting, evidence-backed analysis, and pointed implications for founders, investors, policymakers, and researchers.
Introduction - why these five stories matter togetherAI in 2025 is no longer an experimental stack for labs and a few startups. It is an industrial fabric: shaping markets, spawning new business models, triggering lawsuits, prompting national strategies, and changing how science gets done. The five stories we cover today touch five essential axes:
Platform power and competition xAI v. Apple/OpenAI.
Business model evolution the rise of ultra-lean, high-value AI businesses.
Legal and ethical boundaries publishers suing AI firms over content use.