Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack’s App Store Freedom Act seeks to restore competition to digital marketplaces by addressing app store monopolies at their source.

After years of gradual declines, the App Store finally saw a huge jump in new apps this past year. Apple’s App Store saw 235,800 new apps in the first three months of 2026, according to new data published by The Information on Sunday, up 84% from the same time period last year.

Within 24 hours of its release, the app climbed to the No. 1 spot among paid apps in the Photo

Thanks to the new possibilities afforded by AI coding tools, the App Store is seeing a resurgence in new app submissions.

Tools that allow anyone to build apps without coding skills is straining Apple's review infrastructure.

Meta announced Muse Spark, its newest LLM that's headed straight for its Meta AI app in the U.S. with smarter, faster responses.