Plus: California has defied Trump's demands to stop AI regulation. This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday ...

Claude is now atop the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Interest in Anthropic has exploded since its CEO, Dario Amodei, defied the Pentagon. Download estimates show just how quickly the ...

Generative artificial intelligence apps drove mobile download growth during 2025, and for the first time, non-game apps surpassed game apps in total revenue derived from in-app purchases, according to ...

The subscription economy helped boost mobile app revenues in 2025, even as app downloads declined for the fifth consecutive year, according to app intelligence firm Appfigures‘ annual report. In 2025, ...

Dec. 10 (UPI) --OpenAI's ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence app topped Apple's 2025 list of the most-downloaded free apps that iPhone owners installed this year. ChatGPT is a large-language AI ...

GM is pulling the plug on app functionality for a significant number of vehicles equipped with its previous-generation infotainment technology. Owners of certain 2017 through 2020 models now find ...

Plus: Meta's lawyers advised staff to remove parts of their research This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of ...

Starting Jan. 1, 2026, Texans who download apps will see new prompts before they hit “install.” A state law known as the App Store Accountability Act, or Senate Bill 2420, will require platforms to ...

OpenAI confirmed that the Sora iPhone app reached one million downloads in five days of its September 30 launch, faster than the ChatGPT iOS app. What's impressive is that Sora managed to reach that ...

A new platform that encourages users to share information about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents nearby rose to the top of the Apple App Store this week, amid criticism from ...

In the summer of 2022, the rapper Lupe Fiasco sat on the grass near a sculpture on MIT’s campus and, on the spot, wrote and recorded a song about it. The Big Sail, by the American sculptor Alexander ...

A game emulator called Delta is taking advantage of the recent court decision around Apple’s App Store to support its business by linking to its Patreon membership page. The update, approved Wednesday ...