Dark Matter acquires House Numbers’ agentic AI platform

Smiling is the most common way U.S. homeowners greet strangers and familiar faces in their neighborhood, followed closely by saying hello: 45% of homeowners smile when they see strangers, and 40% go with a verbal greeting.  For people homeowners recognize but don’t know, 51% smile, and 49% say hello.  Nearly half of baby boomer homeowners…

Climbing mortgage rates have created a sharp paradox, turning more markets buyer-friendly this fall even as rates above 7% drain shoppers’ purchasing power. According to the Realtor.com® 2026 Q3 Market Clock report released on Monday, the national market clock now sits at 4 o’clock after moving one hour toward buyer’s territory since the second quarter,…

Mini-turbojet engines have become a growing priority for Ukraine’s defense industry as the country relies on them to power the next generation of high-speed interceptor drones and long-range strike weapons. Ukraine has long sourced weapons and components from partner nations. But as the country builds more of its own drones and missiles, reducing that dependency…

The spread between the cost of barrels of gasoline and crude oil — known as the “crack spread” — has widened sharply.

First comes love. Then comes a $36,000 wedding, a $23,400 down payment, and childcare that can consume double-digit shares of household income. It’s just a snapshot of the punishing costs young families face today. And as milestones that once built on one another compete for the same pool of money, the traditional sequence of adulthood…

A firm I spoke to recently trialled a document-handling tool for six weeks. The tool read incoming statements, worked out what was missing, chased the client and packaged the case. It got roughly four cases in five all the way through. The fifth needed someone to look at it. The firm didn’t buy the tool….