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Swedish vibe-coding unicorn Lovable has doubled its annual recurring revenue (ARR) to $200 million in just four months, co-founder and CEO Anton Osika said onstage at the Slush 2025 technology conference in Helsinki, Finland. The milestone comes just four months after the year-old company surpassed $100 million in ARR in July. Osika credited the AI-assisted coding software maker’s decision not to move to Silicon Valley as the main reason for its success thus far. Osika said Lovable decided to stay in Europe despite getting a lot of early advice that the company would only be successful if it left the…

DALLAS (AP) — When it became clear to high school theater teacher Gigi Cervantes that she couldn’t ignore a new state law requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in her Texas classroom, she felt she had no choice. She resigned from the job she loved.“I just was not going to be a part of forcing or imposing religious doctrine onto my students,” she said.Texas is undertaking the nation’s largest attempt to hang the Ten Commandments in public schools, and in the rush to navigate the Republican-led mandate that took effect in September, the rollout has forced some districts to…

The rapid rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI systems has disrupted education, transforming how students learn and study. Students everywhere have turned to chatbots to help with their homework, but artificial intelligence’s capabilities have blurred the lines about what it should — and shouldn’t — be used for.The technology’s widespread adoption in many other parts of life also adds to the confusion about what constitutes academic dishonesty. Here are some do’s and don’ts on using AI for schoolwork: Don’t just copy and paste Chatbots are so good at answering questions with detailed written responses that it’s tempting to just…

Shivi Sharma spent a decade working in credit risk at places like American Express and Varo Bank.  At some point, she realized teams were spending equal amounts of time analyzing all types of loans — regardless of whether it was worth $100,000 or $5 million — meaning assessing smaller loans was ultimately an unprofitable and time-consuming process for lenders.  She and her husband, Utsav Shah, realized there was an opportunity here.  “She watched as the vast majority of small business owners couldn’t access the capital they needed to grow, simply because the economics didn’t work for banks,” Shah told TechCrunch. …

United States airlines are ready to handle a record-breaking number of travelers over the Thanksgiving period, despite the recent effects of the government shutdown.The airline industry is expecting more than 31 million passengers to fly during the holiday travel window, which this year stretches from November 20 to December 2, according to Airlines for America. The largest US airlines say they have fully recovered from the mandatory flight reductions imposed during the shutdown and are prepared to handle the huge influx of travelers over Thanksgiving. The FAA’s flight reductions officially ended on Monday, November 17.“While the government shutdown is behind…

The internet today has a new worry. Alongside vibe-coding tools, and the codebases, sites, and apps built with them, security issues and blind spots have proliferated, too. Cybersecurity company Guardio is taking aim at a fresh market born amid this flux: finding malicious code written using AI tools. The company says it has found that with AI tools, malicious actors now find it easier than ever to build scam and phishing sites as well as the infrastructure needed to run them. Now, Guardio is leveraging its experience building browser extensions and apps that scan for malicious and phishing sites to…

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has resigned from OpenAI’s board days after Congress released an extensive cache of emails with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, which included details of intimate affairs. Summers is also a former president of Harvard University and a current professor. The university will open its own probe into Summers’ connections with Epstein, reports the student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson. The university newspaper also reported that Summers will step back from public commitments.  His departure comes a day after both the House and the Senate voted to release the Epstein files. Over the past few days, a…

OpenAI is pushing deeper into retail, with Target set to debut a new ChatGPT-powered app for shoppers in coming weeks. The news follows OpenAI’s move last month to start adding dedicated retail apps to ChatGPT, including Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify, and Zillow. It also comes as OpenAI races to rake in AI-driven commerce via new products like “Instant Checkout” that let users make purchases within conversations with retailers like Etsy and Shopify.  The Target app in ChatGPT will launch in beta next week, and it will let shoppers ask for ideas, browse, and build multi-item baskets, shop for food,…

For Daniil Boiko and Andrei Tyrin, the idea for Onepot AI came from the same frustration. “The best ideas in drug discovery were often blocked not by biology, but by synthesis,” Boiko told TechCrunch. Synthesis is the creation of new molecules by using chemical reactions. It’s like a recipe or Lego pieces, where small pieces, ingredients, molecules, come together to form a wider puzzle picture, a food dish, a larger molecule. As one might expect, it’s quite hard to create those small molecules that go on to build bigger ones. For Boiko, a PhD candidate studying machine learning in chemistry…

On Wednesday, Spotify announced new features designed to showcase the people behind users’ favorite music, including producers, engineers, songwriters, background vocalists, and more. The company will also release tools that show how songs are connected and what inspired them. The second set of tools is showcased in a new, interactive feature called SongDNA, which shows which songs are being sampled in a given track, who has covered the tune, and what other projects the song’s collaborators may have been involved in. Image Credits:Spotify TechCrunch reported in October that Spotify was developing the SongDNA feature as a way to help users…