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2025-12-05T02:44:33.372Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Google and Replit are expanding their partnership to bring vibe coding to more companies. Replit projects $1 billion in revenue by the end of 2026, its CEO told Business Insider. Sundar Pichai says vibe coding is making software development “exciting” again. Google Cloud and coding startup Replit are expanding…

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration’s bid to halt an order requiring it to release millions of dollars in grants meant to address the shortage of mental health workers in schools.The mental health program, which was funded by Congress after the 2022 school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, included grants meant to help schools hire more counselors, psychologists and social workers, with a focus on rural and underserved areas of the country. But President Donald Trump’s administration opposed aspects of the grant programs that touched on race, saying they were harmful to students…

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The Chicago Tribune filed a lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity on Thursday alleging copyright infringement. The suit, seen by TechCrunch, was filed in a federal court in New York. The Tribune alleges that its lawyers contacted Perplexity in mid-October asking if the AI search engine was using its content, according to the complaint. Perplexity’s lawyers replied it did not train models with the Tribune’s work, but that it “may receive non-verbatim factual summaries,” the lawsuit claims. The Tribune’s lawyers, however, argue that Perplexity is delivering Tribune content verbatim. Interestingly, the newspaper’s lawyers are also calling out Perplexity’s Retrieval Augmented…

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Amazon Web Services’ annual tech conference AWS re:Invent has wrapped. And the singular message, amid a deluge of product news and keynotes, was AI for the enterprise. This year it was all about upgrades that give customers greater control to customize AI agents, including one that AWS claims can learn from you and then work independently for days. Amazon CTO Dr. Werner Vogels capped off the final night with a keynote aimed at lifting up developers and assuaging any fears at AI is coming for engineering jobs. AWS re:Invent 2025, which runs through December 5, started with a keynote from…

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Anne Marie Hukriede has three times appealed her insurance company’s decision not to cover her daughter’s scoliosis surgery.The answer each time was the same: Aetna considers the procedure that doctors recommend for her 12-year-old daughter, Vivian, to be experimental, citing a lack of evidence about long-term safety and efficacy.When the company’s third denial came on Nov. 11, Vivian’s surgery was just days away. Given that the procedure can cost up to $100,000 out of pocket, the family postponed it.Hukriede, who lives in Centennial, Colorado, exhausted her final chance for appeal last month. Now, the ideal window for Vivian to access…

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Apple has hired Meta’s top lawyer, Jennifer Newstead, as its next general counsel, extending a broader reshuffle of the iPhone maker’s senior ranks.Newstead will join Apple in January as a senior vice president, reporting to CEO Tim Cook, and is set to become general counsel on March 1, 2026, succeeding longtime legal chief Kate Adams, who plans to retire late next year, Apple said in a press release.In the same announcement, Apple said Lisa Jackson, its vice president for Environment, Policy, and Social Initiatives, will retire in late January 2026. Her Government Affairs organization will first move under Adams and…

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Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday that Tesla FSD will now let you text while the software drives you around.This is part of a recent FSD update, and the CEO said it allows texting in certain situations.So, I decided to test this out with my 2024 Tesla Model 3, to see how far the system would go and whether it performed under this new scenario.Depending on context of surrounding traffic, yes— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 4, 2025 I have a new version of the FSD software, v14.2.1 2025.38.9.6. And I’m using Tesla’s free FSD trial, which it rolled out to millions…

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Micro1’s rapid climb over the past two years has pushed it into a cohort of AI companies scaling at breakneck speed. The three-year-old startup, which helps AI labs recruit and manage human experts for training data, started the year with roughly $7 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR). Today, it claims to have surpassed $100 million in ARR, founder and CEO Ali Ansari told TechCrunch. That figure is also more than double the revenue Micro1 reported in September when it announced its $35 million Series A at a $500 million valuation. Ansari, 24, said then that Micro1 works with leading…

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stop using certain types of glucose monitor sensors after the company that makes them, Abbott Diabetes Care, said the devices were linked to seven deaths and more than 700 injuries.Certain FreeStyle Libre 3 and FreeStyle Libre 3 Plus sensors may provide incorrect low glucose readings, FDA officials said this week. Such readings over an extended period may lead people with diabetes to make bad treatment decisions, such as consuming too many carbohydrates or skipping or delaying doses of insulin.“These decisions may pose serious health risks, including potential injury or death,”…

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ATLANTA – Federal vaccine advisers selected by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. delayed until Friday a vote to lift a long-standing recommendation for all newborns to get the hepatitis B vaccine in what would be the most sweeping revision to the childhood vaccine schedule under Kennedy.The advisers heard presentations in the morning – including from two prominent vaccine critics recently hired by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – casting doubt on the safety and necessity of a three-dose series of hepatitis B vaccines given to babies, despite widespread agreement by medical and public health experts that the…

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