Be in the know. 16 key reads for Sunday…

  1. Starter-Home Sales Rose 4% in June, a Bright Spot in a Sluggish Housing Market (redfin)
  2. A Ray of Housing Hope Is Emerging in Washington (bloomberg)
  3. Triangles, Crescents, Slivers: Can Odd-Shaped Lots Help Ease the Housing Crisis? (nytimes)
  4. Spreading housing market weakness sees $23 billion builder offer $50K incentives per sale (fastcompany)
  5. Consumers With Good Credit Are Seeing Lower Rates Despite No Change in Fed Rate Policy (coxautomotive)
  6. July US auto sales to advance mildly (spglobal)
  7. How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power (economist)
  8. Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom? (economist)
  9. Circle’s CEO on the Booming Business of Stablecoins (bloomberg)
  10. Why PayPal’s latest crypto move is huge for the industry (yahoo)
  11. China has top-flight AI models. But it is struggling to run them (economist)
  12. Inside the Summit Where China Pitched Its AI Agenda to the World (wired)
  13. How Boeing is quietly betting on a ‘brilliant’ 39-year old engineer—and setting the stage for a turnaround (fortune)
  14. America’s ailing health insurers (economist)
  15. New ‘Old Skool’ Vans shoes sell out, listed for hundreds on resale market (usatoday)
  16. Here Comes August, Buckle Up (carsongroup)