At a loss for words? AI is a champ when you’re feeling overwhelmed, confused, frustrated or just plain out of ideas. It works for anything from “What do I do with a celeriac I got at the farmer’s market?” to “What’s a creative way to end my presentation on a high note?”
Zillow stalking: The new national pastime
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Confession time: I Zillow people. All the time.
Someone casually mentions they just bought a house in Aspen? I’m on it. I’m already hunched over my keyboard like a Nancy Drew reboot.
New neighbor moves in with a Mercedes-Benz and suspiciously good patio furniture? You better believe I’m typing that address into Zillow before their moving truck finishes unloading.
Zillow knows if they’re legit or just really good at faking it for the ’gram.
🏠 Putting the real in real estate
You probably already use Zillow to dream-shop for your next home. But here’s the real power move: using it to fact-check people’s financial lives.
Millions of people are doing the same (paywall link). Zillow isn’t just some real estate listing site anymore, it’s a national pastime.
In just the first quarter of 2025, Zillow clocked a mind-blowing 2.4 billion visits. That’s not a typo. 227 million unique visitors show up every month. We’re all snooping, and the data is just sitting there waiting to be explored.
📍 Zestimate is close
When you plug in an address at Zillow, the first thing you see is the Zestimate. That’s Zillow’s home value estimate. It’s calculated from public records, recent sales, tax data, local MLS listings, updates from homeowners and spidey senses.
Zillow says it’s accurate within 2% of sale prices for homes currently on the market and within 7% for off-market homes. I know, it’ll likely be too low for your home and too high if you’re buying.
You’ll also find the price history (what they paid and when), estimated rent, tax assessments, square footage and even neighborhood details. It’s like a financial X-ray.
The bots are coming for your 401(k)
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One question I get all the time is, “Kim, can AI help me pick stocks?”
Spoiler: Not only can it help, it might do a better job than a guy in a Patagonia vest yelling about yield curves.
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🤖 Bot time Grandma got company: South Korea gave 12,000 lonely older adults AI “grandchildren” that talk, glow and remind them to take their meds. The dolls run on ChatGPT and deep cultural guilt. And yes, they’re coming to the U.S. by 2026 for a slice of the global $7.7B (by 2030) eldercare robot market.
$117 billion
That’s how much Larry Ellison’s fortune swelled in a single day. The windfall from Oracle stock spiking 42% on AI-fueled growth forecasts vaulted him past Elon Musk as the world’s richest person. For scale, his one-day gain is bigger than Nike’s entire market value. The profits are cloud and clear.
$40 billion
That’s how much market value Do Kwon vaporized in his crypto collapse. He hyped TerraUSD as a stablecoin, then secretly used a trading firm to fake its stability. He could face up to 25 years, but the feds will settle for 12. That’s about one year for every $3.3 billion in lost value.
$28,900
The average used car price, up more than $8,000 since 2020. That’s not a typo. Blame supply chain chaos and automakers favoring pricey trims when chips were scarce. Now everyone’s diving into the used market, driving up prices, even for clunkers with mileage.
$4 trillion
Nvidia just became the first company in history to hit this market cap. That’s more than the GDP of Germany. Not bad for a company that used to be best known for making your graphics card run Call of Duty without melting. Now, it’s powering the AI boom and casually leapfrogging Microsoft and Apple.
👾 Farming pays: Roblox’s new super-hit Grow a Garden has sparked a black market for digital fruit. People are flipping dragonflies and polar bears for $200+ despite it violating Roblox rules. Gamers are basically becoming produce smugglers. It’s Farmville meets Wall Street. Congrats to the guy who sold a few tomatoes to pay his paid rent.
“Sell the rumor, buy the news” goes too far: This is crazy. A tiny finance account on X (with just 1,100 followers!) posted a fake claim that Trump was pausing tariffs. The market exploded with joy. CNBC ran with it, Reuters picked it up, and traders literally cheered on the NYSE floor. The account? Verified. The source? Sketchy. And the lesson? Maybe next time, before CNBC hits the banner button, they need to check who’s posting.
🇨🇳 Say it’s not Tso: Obviously, we just don’t care about giving China even more of our data. China’s DeepSeek just passed ChatGPT in new monthly website visits with 524.7 million, compared to ChatGPT’s 500 million. DeepSeek holds 12.12% of the chatbot market, second to ChatGPT. Think about what you hand over to this communist chatbot.
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