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The blockbuster PayPal buyout could be off. Advent International and Stripe have reportedly walked away from their pursuit of the payments pioneer, ending months of speculation over a deal that would have ranked among the largest leveraged buyouts ever. PayPal shares tumbled as much as 16% in premarket trading Friday, a sharp reversal for a…

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Webcasts, HELOC, AI Products; Product and Conv. Conforming News; Shared Equity Report A big thrust by many lenders and originators is helping homeowners use the equity in their home or offering a shared equity product. And why not: there’s $36 trillion in home equity out there. And in an industry where we’ll be…

Higher interest rates and lower rental demand mean many of those condos have become a cashflow-negative headache for owners, while scores of buyers who purchased years ago when values were higher are now facing huge appraisal challenges CMHC has flagged that plunge in condo starts as one of the main reasons the housing crisis is…

The CEO of an Ant-backed humanoid robotics startup has published a letter to OpenAI in Chinese that raises questions about technical and design similarities between the two companies’ recent models. “People often say major tech companies have intelligence networks monitoring the whole internet, this time I believe it, this is a direct distillation of us…