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Home Depot launches AI tool to automate contractor material lists

On Monday, The Home Depot announced it’s introducing software for builders, remodelers, and renovators that leverages AI to generate project lists in just minutes. The technology, Material List Builder AI, is one of scores of AI-driven software solutions aimed at increasing operational efficiencies – measured in build-cycle time and money – in the residential construction…

Investors blast CoStar’s ‘feckless board,’ and ‘quixotic quest’ over Homes.com

Roughly a year after calling on CoStar Group to embark on a journey of “meaningful self-help,” the firm’s activist investors at Third Point Investors Ltd are back again pushing the Andy Florance-helmed firm to reform, including developing “strategic alternatives for Homes.com.” In a letter addressed to CoStar Group’s board members published on Tuesday, Daniel Loeb,…

Rocket Companies, Redfin tease Super Bowl ad with Lady Gaga

Rocket Companies and Redfin on Tuesday released a teaser for their upcoming Super Bowl LX commercial, featuring Lady Gaga performing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”, the theme song from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood. The ad will mark Redfin’s first appearance in a Super Bowl broadcast since the company’s founding 20 years ago, Rocket said in its…