Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.
Apple’s Cal AI crackdown signals it’s still policing the App Store
Apple tells TechCrunch Cal AI was removed not for web payments alone, but for deceptive billing, manipulative tactics, and App Store rule violations.
When 60,000 attendees descend on Tokyo Big Sight April 27–29, the headline numbers are hard to ignore: 750 startup exhibitors, 151 sessions, city leaders from 49 countries. But the stat that tells you what kind of event this actually is? It’s 10,000 facilitated business meetings — brokered, booked, and tracked before most attendees even land.
Apple’s top job comes with almost unrivaled power and money, but it comes with plenty of baggage, too.
Founded by an OSU researcher, the startup is developing AI agents that can become experts in any domain.
Cook, who joined Apple in 1998, succeeded Steve Jobs as CEO in 2011 and went on to transform Apple into a $4 trillion powerhouse.
The move could shore up weaknesses at each company, but it also reveals them. Neither Cursor nor xAI has proprietary models that can match the leading offerings from Anthropic and OpenAI — the same companies now competing directly with Cursor for the developer market.
Meta says that it has a new internal tool that is converting mouse movements and button clicks into data that can train its AI models.
Anthropic told TechCrunch it is investigating the claims, but maintains that there is no evidence that its systems have been impacted.
The company is restructuring some teams to accommodate a booming energy storage business, according to emails viewed by TechCrunch.
Generative AI is being infused into Google’s popular feature within Maps.