Why Dave's Hot Chicken is beating Sora and ChatGPT in the App Store ranks

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Dave's Hot Chicken is very popular. More popular than AI? Well....

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Apple is cracking down on those viral 'Tea' apps, citing persistent privacy concerns

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Tea Dating Advice, known colloquially as "the tea app" was removed from the Apple App Store.

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Apple is tightening App Store age restrictions in Texas. Here's what it means for parents.

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A Texas law requires Apple to tighten its restrictions.

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OpenAI just launched its own version of an app store, taking aim at Apple and Google

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Sam Altman

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Apple's ICEBlock takedown shows how easily Washington can pull the plug on the internet

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Attorney General Pam Bondi says she told Apple to take down an ICE-tracking app.

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OpenAI's Sora officially hits No. 1 on Apple's App Store

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OpenAI's Sora app topped the Apple App Store charts days after its release.

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Neon, a buzzy app that pays to record your calls for AI training data, goes offline to address a security scandal

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The Neon Mobile phone app
The Neon app, which offered to pay users to record their phone calls, went offline on Thursday after a TechCrunch report detailing a security vulnerability.

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Using AI tools, this LinkedIn VP built and launched an app in a few weeks

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The LinkedIn logo is displayed in the Apple App Store on an iPhone.

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Hank Green's 'Focus Friend' unseated ChatGPT on the App Store. I used it to help concentrate while writing this article.

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YouTuber Hank Green launched "Focus Friend." The app quickly went No. 1 in the App Store.

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Elon Musk said Apple made it 'impossible' for non-ChatGPT AI apps to top the App Store. DeepSeek would like a word.

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While ChatGPT has long dominated the App Store, both DeepSeek and Perplexity have gone No. 1.

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