#CapitalOne Cites Money Laundering Review in #Trump-Related Suit https://finance.yah…
The Russian strikes tormenting Ukraine’s capital in recent days have had an ominous new feature:
jet-powered drones.
Significantly faster and harder to intercept than the propeller-driven drones that have stalked Ukraine’s skies for years,
these munitions are stretching air defenses and stoking anxiety about what analysts and officials predict will be a dangerous new stage of the war
With jet engines
drones can carry heavier explosive payloads,
flying farth…
FIling: Lone Palm Labs, the startup behind friend-focused photo sharing app Retro, raised a $21M Series A from Thrive Capital and others (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/alternative-social-media-ap…
Filing: a major Cumulus Media post-bankruptcy stakeholder is likely to be Alden Global Capital President Heath Freeman, who may hold a 31.86% voting interest (Cameron Coats/Radio Ink)
https://radioink.com/2026/07/29/notorious-newsroom-job-slasher-gr…
50 years (& 2 days) ago, the grateful dead in maryland with some flowing sunshine & the last ever “cosmic charlie.” fall ’76, show #3.
now dick’s picks 20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oy7jisOTyo&list=PLjRt0Y9SSHARnbqTIeB1uoNh3Ib7SKyiT…
Michael Roberts on why 'Rentier Capitalism' is a misleading understanding.
EU companies: a ‘capitalism of rent’? – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/eu-companies-a-capitalism-of-rent/
NYC-based Corridor, which uses AI to offer health benefits for small businesses, raised a $16M seed led by Bain Capital Ventures, following a $9M pre-seed (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/09/21/corridor-25m-b…
Bank accounts held by President Donald Trump were closed by Capital One in 2021
-- after it flagged financial activity that had characteristics of money laundering, the bank disclosed in a court filing over the weekend.
The court filing is tied to a lawsuit filed against Capital One by one of Trump’s financial holding companies shortly after he was sworn into office a second time.
Trump alleges that Capital One illegally closed his accounts for political reasons, following …
SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/open…
Quintessent, a startup making optical interconnects for data centers, raised a $40M Series A led by Cycle Capital, following its $11.4M seed round in 2024 (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/24/quintessent-bags-40m-to-de…