Blend reports stronger Q2 results on software growth

The home value gap between markets is significant. The median home value in counties without data centers stands at $174,500. In counties with 10 or more facilities, that figure reaches $431,750, and those high-concentration markets saw values rise 95% over the past decade, compared with 64% elsewhere. Median household income runs to approximately $89,000 in those…

The economy is operating with slack after the latest US tariff round, which imposed 50% duties on roughly 5% of Canadian exports as of August 22, with Ottawa’s counter-tariffs taking effect September 8. Canada’s policy rate, at 2.25%, is already well below that of the United States, and interest-sensitive demand for capital goods and consumer durables…

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The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) on Tuesday proposed a Public Insurance Registry (PIR) as a Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) for the insurance sector.   The regulator said its consultation paper linked the proposal to the objectives of the Sabka Bima Sabki Raksha (Amendment of Insurance Laws) Act, 2025.   Irdai described…

Dan Chung Courtesy: Fred Alger Management Daniel Chung, the CEO and chief investment officer at investment firm Fred Alger Management, survived the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center by chance.  That morning a quarter century ago, the then-tech analyst started his day at the Intercontinental Hotel in Midtown Manhattan, searching for answers on…

Even in the AI age, some conversations are best had in person. Last week, after Hugging Face suffered an unusual security breach involving an AI agent running on OpenAI models, the company’s CEO, Clem Delangue, boarded a flight to San Francisco to meet with the maker of ChatGPT. A week later, in the “spirit of transparency,”…