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[ad_1] The US housing market is waking up.After years of stalled activity, the market seems to be gaining new momentum as lower borrowing costs draw prospective buyers from the sidelines.The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate cooled to around 6.26% in the last week, according to Freddie Mac, down 150 basis points from its peak in mid-2023.Lower home prices are also helping. The median home-sale price eased to $410,800 in the second quarter, down 7% from its peak in late 2022.”Affordability conditions have improved for four straight months, with lower mortgage rates and stronger income growth boosting prospective buyers’ purchasing power,”…

[ad_1] What happens when technology takes the wheel in our love lives? From dating apps and AI-powered matchmaking to full-on digital companionship, artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming a third party in our most personal relationships. But is it truly helping us find deeper connection — or just reshaping romance into an algorithmic illusion? Only on the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025, happening October 27-29 in San Francisco’s Moscone West, we’re bringing together three powerhouse voices to unpack the future of love, trust, and tech. Eugenia Kuyda, founder of Replika, the world’s leading AI companion platform with over 35 million…

[ad_1] The job market for entry-level workers has been bleak recently — but Cisco’s chief people, policy, and purpose officer said that won’t be the case long-term.”I think it’s a total blip,” Francine Katsoudas told Business Insider. “I don’t think it’s lasting.”She said Cisco understands the importance of attracting the next generation of talent and that recent grads have experiences, skills, and lessons that are applicable in the workplace.Katsoudas’ prediction for the future of entry-level workers comes as tech-industry leaders, like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, have warned that entry-level white-collar jobs will be slashed in half in the next five years. Geoffrey…

[ad_1] Berlin’s digital elite packed into the Welt AI Summit on Thursday for a glimpse of Sam Altman. They got something else, too: a full-throated gospel from Federal Minister Karsten Wildberger, calling for fewer shackles on Germany’s tech scene.Minutes after Altman exited, Wildberger told the packed room at the Axel Springer headquarters: “We have to start to open up the gates and allow our companies to innovate much, much faster.”Wildberger isn’t a career politician, but a former tech executive. In May, he was sworn in as Germany’s first-ever federal minister for digital transformation and government modernization, heading a new group…

[ad_1] From model infrastructure to niche applications, AI is producing a new breed of founders and a new set of investor expectations. In this candid conversation on the AI Stage, at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 — taking place on October 27-29 in San Francisco — top VCs will share what’s catching their eye (and what’s not), how they’re thinking about defensibility in a world of AI monopolies, and what founders need to show to get that next term sheet. If you are scaling or planning to scale an AI startup, you cannot miss this session. Learn what it really takes to…

[ad_1] 2025-09-25T14:59:53Z Share Facebook Email X LinkedIn Reddit Bluesky WhatsApp Copy link lighning bolt icon An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Save Saved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now. Have an account? Log in. Qube, the $34 billion London-based quant, has a team of human stockpickers who will start trading on October 1. The team is under the purview of former Balyasny executive Stephen Irvine. Each analyst will receive a sleeve of capital between $200 and $500 million, several people say. The…

[ad_1] “Growth at a reasonable price”, or “GARP”, is an investment strategy that looks to identify growing companies that are not trading at irrationally exuberant valuations. One of the most commonly used financial ratios is the “PEG Ratio”, which divides a company’s P/E ratio by its earnings growth rate (although the convention is that the growth rate is not expressed as a percentage, for simplicity, one must assume it is). For example, if a $100 stock has earnings of $6 per share, then its P/E ratio is $ 100 divided by $6, or ~16.7. If the company’s earnings are forecast…

[ad_1] Hello, and RIP to Instagram (sort of). The app is testing out a new feed that opens right into its Reels feature. BI’s Katie Notopoulos has more on the change.In other tech news, OpenAI’s Sam Altman (yes, the Sam Altman) stopped by the Berlin headquarters of our parent company, Axel Springer. He chatted with the father of quantum computing, and they agreed on a Turing Test 2.0.In today’s big story, we’re looking at how President Donald Trump’s new H-1B visa fee will impact Big Tech, startups, consulting, and Wall Street.What’s on deck:Markets: The future of trading is … doing…

[ad_1] On Thursday, the AI platform Clarifai announced a new reasoning engine that it claims will make running AI models twice as fast and 40% less expensive. Designed to be adaptable to a variety of models and cloud hosts, the system employs a range of optimizations to get more inference power out of the same hardware. “It’s a variety of different types of optimizations, all the way down to CUDA kernels to advanced speculative decoding techniques,” said CEO Matthew Zeiler. “You can get more out of the same cards, basically.” The results were verified by a string of benchmark tests…

[ad_1] Alphabet may eventually become the largest company in the world as it edges out rivals in artificial intelligence, powered by growth and profits from its generative AI initiatives, according to MoffettNathanson. The investment firm, which has a buy rating on Alphabet shares, raised its price target by 28%, to $295 from $230. That implies more than 19% upside from Wednesday’s close. In a 19-page report headlined, “Alphabet: World’s Most Valuable Company,” MoffettNathanson acknowledged, “this is not a statement of the present, but of what we believe should be,” referring to the company’s market capitalization. A “combination of market leadership,…