Dwelly buys Paramount, a London lettings agency run by Spencer Lawrence, taking it to 15,000 properties under management and signalling more agency roll-ups ahead.
Haart is betting 1.7m over five years on a lettings CRM built on Rex, a move Mal McCallion calls cheap versus bespoke systems, though losing historic data is the main switching risk.
Mal McCallion questions whether Salesforce's 12 percent after-hours rise is justified, since seat-based CRM pricing could shrink as AI agents do the work.
Nvidia reportedly closing in on Hugging Face acquisition
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Nvidia. Nvidia is reportedly on the verge of acquiring Hugging Face, the open model platform, as CEO Jensen Huang pushes the chipmaker into software and model ecosystems.
Dwelly. Dwelly bought Paramount, a London lettings agency run by Spencer Lawrence, taking the private equity-backed group to 15,000 properties under management, with more acquisitions expected.
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Salesforce shares jump 12 percent on Anthropic deal. Claude skills will sit inside Salesforce, letting users run their work from one AI workspace that pulls data from HubSpot, Rex and Reapit. Mal McCallion questions the rally, since AI agents could shrink paid seats.
Haart bets 1.7m on a Rex-based lettings CRM. Haart, probably Rex's biggest UK client, is spending the sum over five years on a CRM built on Rex. Mal McCallion calls that cheap next to bespoke systems and warns that losing historic data is the main switching risk.
Salesforce and HubSpot move away from seat pricing. Salesforce shifted first to charging for AI conversations, then to outcomes, while HubSpot dropped per-seat pricing at the start of the year. Mal McCallion says customers have not adopted outcome pricing wholesale.
Stanley Druckenmiller admits AI wrote his Journal op-ed. The Wall Street Journal ran the piece and journalists were angry. Matt Goddard says the outcry was about the commotion, and that obvious AI tells showed it was not properly edited. Mal McCallion compares it to moral panics over typewriters.
Chinese GLM model helped Hugging Face recover from attack. An AI agent attack hit Hugging Face because it hosts benchmarks an OpenAI bot wanted to hack. Claude and ChatGPT could not be used, so it turned to GLM. The unnamed Aux Alpha model was GLM 5.3 Flash.
Skyliners survey says half of surveyors near retirement. Almost half of residential surveyors are due to retire within ten years, according to the survey. Matt Goddard calls it an advertorial with no sample details, and Mal McCallion wants better recruitment marketing.
Google releases Gemini 3.5 Transcribe. The tool covers more than 85 languages, strips filler words, resolves spoken corrections and copes with accents and background noise. Mal McCallion recommends transcription services for meeting notes and tracking action points.
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