Phil Schiller's departure from the App Store stems from wariness over new CEO John Ternus's push for more recurring revenue, reports TechCrunch (opens in a new tab). Elsewhere, Isar Aerospace (opens in a new tab) launched Europe's first commercial orbital rocket, while an Amazon cargo plane (opens in a new tab) crashed at Miami airport. Travis Kalanick's Atoms (opens in a new tab) may enter robotaxis, and authors contest the Anthropic settlement (opens in a new tab) split. In tech, the Nitter project (opens in a new tab) continues following legal advice, and OpenAI (opens in a new tab) publishes on AI alignment.