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Apple appears to have escalated its crackdown on vibe coding by recently booting one such app out of its App Store for violating its rules. The Information's Aaron Tilley reports. Last Thursday, Apple removed the app, Anything, from the App Store, according to Dhruv Amin, Co-founder and CEO of the eponymous startup that makes the app. Apple's action came a week after The Information reported that the company had blocked updates of vibe coding apps - which use Ai to allow people without coding experience to create apps - while allowing earlier versions of those apps to remain in the App Store, the author notes.

On March 19, the U.K.'s Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation, part of HM Treasury, imposed a penalty of GBP 390,000 on Apple Distribution International Limited, an entity incorporated in the Republic of Ireland and a subsidiary of the US technology company Apple Inc, in accordance with section 146 of the Policing and Crime Act. OFSI said it imposed the penalty for breaches of the Russia Regulations 2019, namely regulation 12 which prohibits making funds available to a person owned or controlled by a designated person.