This AI startup has only 14 employees — and a fresh $10 billion valuation

If you’ve been waiting for lower mortgage rates, today just might be your day. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage dropped to 6.47% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is 12 basis points lower than yesterday and 14 basis points lower than a week ago. (See our chart…

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The private sector lender has raised $500 million with notes carrying a coupon rate of 5.159 per cent and maturing in three years 1 min read Last Updated : Aug 21 2026 | 12:51 PM IST HDFC Bank has raised $1.75 billion through overseas bonds to fund its business growth. HDFC Bank ,…

Artificial intelligence may or may not take your job, but it has already broken into the human resources department and vandalized the org chart. The evidence is all over LinkedIn, where perfectly serviceable occupations now arrive wearing titles such as “forward-deployed and agentic AI architect.” That person may be building sophisticated software. They may also…

Why did New York City just freeze rent for a million apartments — and who’s actually going to pay for it? This month’s economic landscape is anything but simple: a job market that’s cooling faster than expected, a brand-new Fed chair rewriting the rulebook, and a policy fight in New York City that reveals exactly…