UK landlords must register each rental property individually, and the Lettings Industry Council says bulk-upload lobbying has failed.
Google's $500bn market-value drop after investor calls was the second-largest fall ever, as Sundar Pichai flagged weak AI search clicks.
Binance lost $6.3bn in crypto from a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop, which Mal McCallion links to elite North Korean hackers.
Google loses $500bn as Gemini 4 held back
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Google loses $500bn after Gemini 4 unveiling. Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, an elite Mythos-class model held back for US vetting, and lost $500bn of market value, the second-largest fall ever. Sundar Pichai said AI mode in search is not getting the clicks.
UK landlords must register every rental property. Every landlord must register each property individually on the government database before inviting a letting agent, who gets a separate link for each. Matt Goddard says the parliamentary debate feedback was damning and bulk uploads were refused.
Binance loses $6.3bn in crypto heist. Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, lost $6.3bn of cryptocurrency after a DevOps engineer's laptop was compromised. Mal McCallion links the theft to elite North Korean hackers, and Matt Goddard predicts at least one serious incident every week.
CoStar sues REA over buyer claim. CoStar, which owns Domain, sued Australia's REA Group over its claim that nine in ten buyers find a home on its platform. REA counterclaimed over CoStar's Matterport purchase.
Autumn statement raises rental income tax. The autumn statement added two percentage points to the tax on rental income. Matt Goddard argues good landlords will leave and rents will rise.
Artificial Analysis reworks AI benchmarks. Artificial Analysis rejigged its benchmarks to stop agentic AI gaming them. Matt Goddard says the change put Western labs ahead of Chinese models, though he expects that gap to close quickly.
Agents work to get off the portals. Agents in Australia and New Zealand are pushing to get off the portals, with 40% of BresicWhitney's properties never listed on them. Mal McCallion says challengers such as MyPorter are testing Rightmove's claims, and Compass is swinging at Zillow.
Mistral launches open weight models. Mistral launched open weight models, the largest called Le Chonk. Matt Goddard says defenders without Mythos or Astra 6.1 leaned on open models such as GLM 5.3 during recent cyber attacks.
Google shows Genie 4 world models. Google also showed Genie 4 world models that build a playable world from a single prompt. Matt Goddard suggests one could drop a buyer into a specific area such as Camberwell for a property search.
Strutt & Parker invests in natural language search. Strutt & Parker, owned by BNP Paribas, has invested in natural language search led by Tamara Couchman. Mal McCallion says the risk is what happens when a question returns no properties.
Granola offers a free unlimited tier. Granola, the meeting note taker, now offers a free unlimited tier. Matt Goddard warns that when something is free you become the product, and notes Wispr recently launched a rival note taker.
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