Tenth Circuit upholds dismissal of Homie antitrust lawsuit
About a year ago, an AI-generated image posted to social media by President Donald Trump caused a stir among mortgage market participants. The image showed Trump standing behind the New York Stock Exchange’s famous bell, with text suggesting the president was considering merging government-sponsored enterprises Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into a publicly traded company…
One of the researchers behind AlphaGo is seeking tens of millions of dollars from a small initial group of backers for a new startup called Metis Reasoning, Bloomberg reported Thursday (Sept. 24). AlphaGo is the Google DeepMind program that beat a world champion at the board game Go in 2016 by learning from millions of…
New Kids on the Block singer Jonathan Knight has good news for fans of HGTV’s “Crashers” reboot—there’s lots more home renovation content to come, despite the show’s hiatus. The pop star turned restoration expert, 57, shared a preview of what’s to come for the series in an Aug. 27 Instagram post. Alongside a behind-the-scenes video…
Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (D-TX) speaks at a campaign rally on March 2, 2026 in Houston, Texas. Talarico is visiting various locations around the state in the lead up to tomorrow’s primaries. Danielle Villasana | Getty Images Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico is out with a new plan, first shared with CNBC, to…
English new build starts were 35,910 in Q2 2026, according to figures from the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG). The figure was up 6% on the 34,440 new starts recorded in Q1 2026 and 20% higher than the 31,900 in Q2 2025. Of that 35,910, 27,730 were private enterprise starts, 7,920 were…
Allica Bank has expanded the use of an automated valuation model (AVM) in its bridging finance proposition. The bank has increased the maximum LTV from 70% to 75% and the maximum loan size for an AVM has moved from £750,000 to £2 million. It says the changes open the AVM route to significantly larger residential…