Zillow Covers FHA Down Payments — Daily Tech Trends Digest
Zillow Home Loans now covers the full 3.5% FHA down payment. Also: iPhone Duo flops, Apple's touchscreen MacBook Pro, and AGIBOT A3 humanoid robot.
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Zillow Home Loans is launching a new program to cover the entire 3.5% down payment for FHA loans, significantly lowering entry barriers for homebuyers. In tech news, the iPhone Duo is facing criticism for durability issues and poor sales, while Apple's new touchscreen MacBook Pro and the AGIBOT A3 humanoid robot draw attention.

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Zillow Home Loans will cover the full 3.5% down payment required for FHA loans.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Binance said it’s in discussions with Malaysian regulators for a licensed business in the country, as the cryptocurrency exchange seeks a route back into a market where authorities have blocked its website and applications.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"It's good quality, sturdy, and has plenty of storage."”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Recent changes at T-Mobile are raising new questions about its relationship with customers.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “US elections from Alaska to Maine will reverberate globally next week, as midterm voting promises to diminish a president who has strong-armed the world.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “It also comes with a protective patio cover.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Angola, sub-Saharan Africa’s second-largest oil producer, plans to cut spending on fuel subsidies in 2027 without significant increases in pump prices, relying instead on other measures to reduce costs.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Amazon reported, and investors sold. Jassy's response is the part of this story that will age the longest.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “OPay Ltd., a Nigeria-focused payments platform, halted an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange that was supposed to start trading on Friday, citing a regulatory inquiry.”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “Oracle laid out how it will fund its AI buildout.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Lisa Lazarus, the top cop in US horse racing, woke up one morning this summer to find a flurry of missed overseas calls and e-mails. They were all from UK regulators and they all delivered the same urgent message: a series of large, unusual and suspiciously successful wagers on…”

Excerpt from TheStreet: “"The elastic waistband with the drawstring allows for a customized fit, ensuring comfort throughout the day."”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was planning a campaign based on optimism and charisma as Spain prepares to vote in four weeks.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman met with Samsung Group’s top executives in South Korea on Saturday to deepen cooperation on memory chips and AI infrastructure as global shortages intensify.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Britons gave Andy Burnham the benefit of the doubt in his first three months as prime minister. After an uninspiring budget, the next six weeks will test whether he can maintain the early momentum.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “The European Union is rushing to forge a new transatlantic alliance just as an old one is falling apart.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “OpenAI has cut its fundraising target by $10 billion as an AI stock selloff and rival Anthropic PBC’s impending public listing complicate its efforts to secure investor commitments, the Financial Times reported.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his Brazilian counterpart agreed to meet in the coming weeks, according to people familiar with the matter, after President Donald Trump’s decision to grant the nation’s defeated right-wing candidate Flávio Bolsonaro refuge inflamed tensions.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Halloween candy is getting more expensive as higher labor, energy and transportation costs continue to pressure food prices. Stew Leonard Jr., CEO of Stew Leonard’s, says bags of popular candy are up about 50 cents from last year, prompting some shoppers to trade down to cheaper…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “A $6 billion crypto hack is putting digital-asset security back in the spotlight. Former CFTC chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, known as “CryptoDad”, argues the attack exposed vulnerabilities at an individual firm rather than a failure of underlying blockchain technology. He is…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Lonnie Ali, Muhammad Ali's wife & Executive Producer of The Greatest, joins Marc Rosen of Authentic Brands to discuss the first authorized scripted series to take a more intimate look at Muhammad Ali beyond his boxing career. The two speak with Romaine Bostick on "The Close" on…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Entertainment leaders examine how streaming, AI, and the creator economy are reshaping Hollywood and the future of media. Guests include Ted Sarandos, Donna Langley, Ben Affleck, & Conan O'Brien. (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “S&P Global Ratings took an early step toward potentially downgrading Meta Platforms Inc.’s credit rating within the next two years, amid growing pressure on the tech company’s balance sheet stemming from elevated spending tied to artificial intelligence.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Polish President Karol Nawrocki called for urgent consultation with parliamentary parties to try to “restore constitutional order” as an escalating stand-off at the country’s top court threatens to spark a political crisis.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “AstraZeneca Chief Financial Officer Aradhana Sarin says the drug company uses AI in almost every aspect of the work they do. She talks beating on earnings, their drug pipeline and how the company approaches dealmaking. She speaks on "Bloomberg Surveillance." (Source: Bloomberg)”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Wall Street expects Democrats to win at least one of the houses of Congress in the US midterm elections on Tuesday, setting the stage for a potentially volatile ride in the stock and bond markets with artificial intelligence oversight, defense spending and crypto legislation on…”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Cities in France, Germany and Italy were bracing for mass demonstrations on Saturday, with thousands of people expected to take to the streets to protest high living costs and other grievances with governments across Europe.”
Excerpt from Bloomberg: “Wall Street got a reality check as a bruising selloff in technology shares fueled concern the artificial-intelligence frenzy that has powered the equity bull market might be overblown.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Persistent Context Across Sessions for Every Agent – Captures everything your agent does during sessions, compresses it with AI, and injects relevant context back into future sessions. Works with Claude Code, OpenClaw, Codex, Gemini, Hermes, Copilot, OpenCode + More”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Open-source Grok Bot alternative with a virtual machine that bots can use”
Excerpt from GitHub: “The design vocabulary for your coding agent. Steer with polish and bolder, review with critique and audit, catch AI slop before it ships.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Open-source AI coworkers that each get a computer of their own: a browser, files and tools, with every action decided before it happens and recorded after. Bring any AG-UI agent.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “紫微斗数开源排盘引擎 — 基于倪海厦《天纪》体系,含完整排盘算法、四化系统、格局知识库、古籍原文数据”
Excerpt from GitHub: “A collection of AI agent skills for working with Expo projects and Expo Application Services”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Macro is a unified workspace for teams: email, chat, docs, tasks, agents, calls, and CRM — @-linked together with shared AI memory.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “Skills for Real Engineers. Straight from my .agents directory.”
Excerpt from GitHub: “DeepTutor: Lifelong Personalized Tutoring.https://deeptutor.info/.”
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