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Apple Cracks Down on ‘Vibe Coding’ Apps

By Stephanie Palazzolo and Aaron Tilley · Mar 18, 2026 6:00am PDT · 1 comment
Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people create games and other applications, from releasing updates to their mobile apps on the App Store unless they make modifications, according to several people with knowledge of the situation. The company confirmed it has told some app developers that... Apple has quietly prevented AI vibe coding apps such as Replit and Vibecode, which help people...
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Can Protein-Obsessed Techies Help Save Sweetgreen?

By Jemima McEvoy · Mar 14, 2026 6:56am PDT
For a little salvation, Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman has lately been looking beyond the piles of chopped romaine lettuce and maple-glazed squash that originally won his company a devoted following with the suit-and-salad lunch set in Washington, New York and Los Angeles. The high-earning young people who used to frequent... For a little salvation, Sweetgreen co-founder and CEO Jonathan Neman has lately been looking...
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Org Chart Spotlights: Ad Exec Key to Pinterest’s Turnaround, xAI Departures Mount

By The Information Staff · Mar 5, 2026 10:30am PST
Online scrapbooking app Pinterest is trying to revive its ad sales growth and has reshuffled some of its leadership to help with that effort. Lee Brown, who joined Pinterest as its chief business officer in January, is at the center of that push. Online scrapbooking app Pinterest is trying to revive its ad sales growth and has reshuffled some...
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What to Expect from Spotify, Lyft and Pinterest Earnings This Week

By Martin Peers · Feb 8, 2026 3:00pm PST
After the crush of tech news last week, including a big AI-fueled stock sell-off, things might calm down a bit in the next few days. With any luck, we’ll have time to debate which of the tech companies’ Super Bowl ads running Sunday night were the best and which were the worst. My vote for best is the Amazon Alexa spot, by the way, although the... After the crush of tech news last week, including a big AI-fueled stock sell-off, things might...
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OpenAI Forecasts Nearly as Many ChatGPT Subscribers as Spotify by 2030

By Sri Muppidi · Nov 25, 2025 4:55pm PST · 2 comments
To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used to increase paid users. It’s hooking up most of its  users—which now number more than 800 million—with the free version of the chatbot and then trying to convince their employers to sign enterprisewide subscriptions, said a... To boost ChatGPT revenue, OpenAI is following a playbook enterprise apps Zoom and Slack have used...