Anthropic launches AI services firm with Blackstone, H&F backing

The once-hot semiconductor trade has seen a cooling in the last couple of weeks, which is not only likely to continue, but usher in a bumpy ride for the overall stock market.

Paragon Bank has introduced a series of enhancements to its buy-to-let (BTL) Bank Base Rate (BBR) tracker range, adding a 2% fee product to give landlords more options. The revised range is available at up to 75% loan-to-value (LTV) and spans both single self-contained properties (SSCs), houses in multiple occupation (HMOs) and multi-unit blocks (MUBs),…

Get the latest insights on Bitcoin, Ether and altcoins, along with a round-up of key cryptocurrency market news. Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Wednesday (July 8) as of 10:00 p.m. UTC. Bitcoin price update Bitcoin (BTC) was priced at US$62,149.60, down by 2.4 percent over the past 24 hours. The decrease…

The network found no evidence that McClain knew of the Pentagon’s later moves to integrate xAI’s Grok models, or that she traded on nonpublic information, and she holds no committee seats overseeing defence or technology.   She does sit on the Financial Services Committee, and Capitol Trades, which tracks congressional disclosures, lists her household with 1,443 trades over three years, more…

The life sciences real estate sector in Greater Boston still has a deep hole to dig out of, with millions of square feet of lab buildings sitting vacant, but a new report shines a positive light on the future of the market’s demand. Sanofi renewed its 900K SF lease in Cambridge Crossing. The number of…

As the nation marked 250 years of independence, new data revealed that just over 65% of American households now own their homes, amid the ever-changing U.S. housing market. A new Realtor.com analysis of federal housing legislation indicated that notable surges in U.S. homeownership have each been preceded by an act of Congress—from the Homestead Act of 1862 to the Housing and Economic…