Vancouver-area home sales down 8.4 per cent in September as prices fall: board ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…

I’m using several agents: - Instinct for shopping/rezzies/travel - Muse for instagram research or finding local businesses - Grok bot for anything X related, running Crons - CC and Codex for normal work - Slashy for email I don’t see this being winner takes all.

How long will we see fixed this low with current bond market activity? Fixed mortgage rates have risen pretty sharply over the past month alongside higher bond yields. Consumers seem to be pushing more towards variable though some special rates remain available on the fixed side, including a 3-year fixed at 4.04%, while variable rates currently start at 3.25%. Shoutout to @WOWA_Canada for tracking rates closer than anyone else in the market right now

Fixed mortgage rates continue to climb as borrowers weigh the variable discount Rising bond yields are pushing fixed rates higher, but experts are divided on whether Bank of Canada hikes will erode the savings offered by variable mortgages. canadianmortgagetrends.com/2…

Is 6.1 worse than 6 Astra? I feel like GPT was almost comparable with Claude on front end and now it’s garbage

The city has released ‘made-in-Toronto’ fourplex and sixplex designs. Here’s what they look like The new designs could boost the number of multiplexes being built in Toronto and help address the demand for housing, the city says thestar.com/real-estate/the-…

Is Hyrox just CrossFit but the people don’t talk about doing it as much? Brilliant concept if so

🚨 MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT: YouTube will start prioritizing original content and reducing re-uploads (RIP clipping) YouTube has just announced one of the most impactful changes to its short-form algorithm. Its recommendation systems (the algorithm) will start to further prioritize original content and reduce the reach of content re-uploaded from other creators without adding anything of your own. They highlight this shift toward originality, where channels with primarily re-uploaded content will see less distribution within the Shorts feed. It also seems like they’re really trying to put the focus on content with real value, while highlighting that YouTube doesn’t want as many “minor technical edits” or “template-based” changes. Which is basically all that clipping was in this industry. Overall, while this will piss off some people whose entire careers were built on the premise of other people’s content (mostly clippers), the change itself is amazing and will finally address the overall quality issue we’ve been seeing.

If you want to know what a K-shaped recovery looks like: We had 4 offers in a $6.75M house in Toronto yesterday It has been one of our busiest listings for showings and inquiries Meanwhile $1.5M 905 product can’t catch a bid Shit happens when you inflate away the middle class

Yesterday @danielfoch said we live in a "post-privacy world" and I can't stop thinking about that. Sad, but very true.

Ford CEO on North American Trade Deal Stakes: ‘This Has to Work’ bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Primaris agreed to buy Newmarket’s Upper Canada Mall for $411 million. The sale is expected to close Oct. 31, subject to conditions. yorkregion.com/news/upper-ca…

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Welcome back Braden!

AI in a bubble? What could kill the most epic bull run in history? x.lingyaoai.com/i/broadcasts/1qxoNYgAo…

Young Canadians less hopeful about future of democracy: Statistics Canada globalnews.ca/news/12083160/…

StatCan just added 301,000 people to Canada. They were already here. It isn't new demand.

Lots of discussion out there about our next model(!), so I wanted to give an early look as soon as possible. Introducing Gemini 4 Argon! It shows frontier performance in complex workflows, cyber defense and software engineering. Teams are using it extensively at Google, from coding to quantum computing, great feedback. Here’s a look at the benchmarks: