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rome — For more than two centuries, Antico Café Greco has been part of Rome’s cultural landscape. Writers and artists, movie stars, princesses and even cowboys have made the pilgrimage to Via Condotti at the foot of the Spanish Steps to soak up the historic atmosphere of Italy’s capital’s oldest coffee house. Last month, everything changed. A cafe popular with Romans and tourists has closed. Portraits of former customers, including Wild West sniper Buffalo Bill, were removed from the walls. The plush red velvet chairs, seating booths and bar stools have been removed. Gold-plated porcelain tableware was taken away. The…

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 on stage at the 2025 Slush Technology Conference in Helsinki, Finland. This milestone comes just four months after the one-year-old company surpassed $100 million in ARR in July. Osika credited the AI-assisted coding software maker’s decision not to relocate to Silicon Valley as a key reason for its success so far. Osika said LaBable decided to remain in Europe despite receiving a lot of early advice that the company would only succeed if it left the…

For a year, the secret to Abby Price’s success lay covered in dust in her store’s basement.As a graduate student at Parsons School of Art, Price founded Abode in 2019, a company that sells dried flower arrangements to people in New York on Facebook. By March 2022, she was selling bouquets and home decor from a rented storefront in the city’s Nolita neighborhood and had enough cash flow to buy a $15,000 embroidery machine, which Price said she bought “on a complete whim.”She didn’t have the expertise or space to actually operate the 100-pound machine, so she kept it in…

Despite the continued decline in stock prices, global investor sentiment towards artificial intelligence remains positive. European and Asian markets have recorded daily declines, following the decline in the US market, as AI stocks and their valuations come under increasing pressure. pan-european Stocks 600 Major stock exchanges had a mixed start to trading on Wednesday, with Asia-Pacific markets falling, with stocks hitting a one-month low on Tuesday. In the US, stock futures were little changed overnight after major US indexes widened their losses. AI stocks like Nvidia, Palantir, and Microsoft are among the stocks feeling the pressure.”We think this is an…

Scotland will join England in next summer’s World Cup finals in the United States, Canada and Mexico, but it could be a clean sweep for the Home Nations.England were the first team in Europe to secure a spot, and Scotland defended their spot until stoppage time in their final group game against Denmark, ultimately sealing victory in dramatic fashion. Meanwhile, Wales, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland will also aim to do the same through the play-offs. England dominated Group K, winning eight games without conceding a goal and securing a spot in North America with two games remaining.…

I wasn’t surprised when US President Donald Trump declared that South Africa “should not be” in the G20, then announced on Truth Social on November 7 that no US government officials would attend this year’s summit in Johannesburg because of the so-called “genocide” of the country’s white farmers. His rant was not an exception, but the latest expression of a long Western tradition of disciplining African sovereignty. President Trump’s attack on South Africa fits into the pattern of Western leaders who have long tried to shut down African government institutions through misdirections such as branding Congolese nationalist Patrice Lumumba a…

Dr. Toyin Ajayi has an ambitious mission to make health care accessible to all.Ajay is the founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, a primary care provider focused on supporting America’s underserved communities.She is undaunted by the enormity of her goal.”Everything we enjoy and take for granted today didn’t exist before. Someone dreamed it into existence,” she says.Having “confidence and ownership” is key to tackling complex problems, Ajayi told CNBC’s Julia Boorstin on the latest episode of the “CNBC Changemakers and Power Players” podcast.After receiving her medical degree from King’s College London Medical School in 2008, Ajayi moved to Sierra Leone…

Nvidia earnings, the most important report of the quarter, will be out after Wednesday’s close, and AI rockstar CEO Jensen Huang will be on the hot seat to answer tough questions about the spiraling artificial intelligence spending promises and how these tech companies — big and not so big — are going to pay for them all. Club stock Nvidia has gained about 35% year to date, as of Tuesday’s close, trading around $181 each. That’s nearly double their lowest close of 2025 on April 4, just days after President Donald Trump first announced his so-called reciprocal tariffs. There have…

Democrats and Republicans alike were hoping for a clean unanimous vote Tuesday to force the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s docket. However, one member of Congress, Republican Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, did not participate in the agreement.His only dissenting opinion highlighted his history of advocating on the extreme ends of the Republican Party.The U.S. House of Representatives approved the bill by an overwhelming margin of 427 members, including 216 Republicans. The bill then went to the Senate, where it was approved unanimously, clearing the way for it to be sent to President Donald Trump for his signature.Here’s what we know:Who…

Jerusalem — On Monday, dozens of Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian vehicles and homes in an occupied West Bank village after Israeli forces destroyed illegal settler outpost structures in the area. Two videos geolocated by CNN show multiple vehicles and a building on fire after the attack in the Palestinian village of Jhabua, about 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of Bethlehem. Video shows villagers struggling to put out the flames. Surveillance cameras in Jabua showed dozens of masked men breaking into homes and setting vehicles on fire. Diab Mashaleh, chairman of the Jhabua village council, told Palestinian state news…