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Roni Rahman
August 12, 2025
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☀️ On this day: On August 12, 1981, Estridge unveiled the IBM PC at New York's Waldorf Hotel. Priced at USD 1,565, it had 16 kilobytes of RAM and no disk drive, and it came with two programs: VisiCalc, for producing spreadsheets, and EasyWriter, for word processing.
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⚖️ Musk threatens to sue Apple over app rankings
⭐ Google adds ‘Preferred Sources’ to search
🦾 Nvidia unveils AI brain for smarter robots
🚫 Reddit blocks Internet Archive over AI scraping
🎧 AirPods may soon get live translation gesture
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⚖️ Musk threatens to sue Apple over app rankings ↗️LINK
What: Elon Musk says his AI company xAI will sue Apple, accusing it of rigging App Store rankings to favor rival AI apps like ChatGPT. He claims X and xAI’s Grok chatbot are unfairly excluded from Apple’s “Must Have” list despite high rankings.
Why: Musk alleges antitrust violations, arguing Apple makes it impossible for other AI apps to hit #1. However, past data shows other AI apps have topped the charts, and Musk provided no evidence.
Impact: The dispute revives Musk’s long-running feuds with Apple and OpenAI, mixing competitive rivalry with political and personal tensions in the AI space.
⭐ Google adds ‘Preferred Sources’ to search ↗️LINK
What: Google is launching “Preferred Sources” in the U.S. and India, letting users choose favorite news sites and blogs for the Top Stories section. A star icon lets you add sources, and some searches will include a “From your sources” section.
Why: The feature aims to give people more content from outlets they trust, expanding on a Search Labs experiment where over half picked four or more sources.
Impact: While it personalizes news, critics warn it could deepen ideological bubbles by limiting exposure to diverse viewpoints.
🦾 Nvidia unveils AI brain for smarter robots ↗️LINK
What: Nvidia launched Cosmos Reason, a 7B-parameter vision-language model that lets robots interpret visual input and make decisions using common sense. It can handle complex, multi-step tasks, such as making toast, by reasoning through scenarios.
Why: The goal is to enable robots to adapt to new situations and understand real-world interactions, boosting their usefulness in varied environments.
Impact: Available open-source but tied to Nvidia hardware, it could speed AI robotics adoption while reinforcing Nvidia’s grip on the robotics compute market.
🚫 Reddit blocks Internet Archive over AI scraping ↗️LINK
What: Reddit will block the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from archiving most of its site, including posts, comments, and profiles, allowing only the homepage to be indexed. Reddit says AI companies have scraped its data via the archive, violating policies.
Why: Reddit argues this protects user privacy and stops AI firms from training models on removed or restricted content without paying for access, as it has done in deals with Google and OpenAI.
Impact: The move limits public historical access to Reddit discussions, raising concerns over digital preservation while reinforcing Reddit’s push to monetize its data.
🎧 AirPods may soon get live translation gesture ↗️LINK
What: The iOS 26 beta hints at a new AirPods gesture (pressing both stems) to trigger live translation via Apple’s Translate app. It’s spotted for AirPods Pro (2nd gen) and AirPods (4th gen).
Why: This extends Apple’s Live Translation beyond calls and messages into real-world conversations, a strong use case for wearables and travelers.
Impact: Could make AirPods a powerful travel tool, though likely limited to newer iPhones due to hardware demands, possibly debuting with the iPhone 17 lineup.
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