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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/

EU companies: a ‘capitalism of rent’?
Why is Europe falling behind in investment and growth compared with the US, let alone China and India?  In a new report, Labour Squeezed, Investment Stalled – the renowned economist Mariana Mazzuca…

Delian Capital partner warns of a Chinese BCI bubble https://insidebci.com/market/2026-08-02-delian-capital-jiang-donghui-chinese-bci-bubble-cycle-vcbeat/ Jiang Donghui,

Delian Capital partner warns of a Chinese BCI bubble
VCBeat, the Chinese healthcare-investment media outlet, published an on-record investor take on the Chinese brain-computer interface sector on 2 August 2026. Delian Capital partner Jiang Donghui framed the sector as at risk of a bubble cycle before maturity, laid out a four-quadrant investment matrix based on demand and technological advancement, and named Chinese BCI companies across invasive, semi-invasive and non-invasive paths. H1 2026 financing alone accounted for approximately 60 per cent…

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…

Exclusive: Corridor launches with $25M from Bain Capital Ventures
Investors are pouring money into the tech-powered benefits market.

Infinity, founded by Jeremy Nixon, the creator of hacker network community AGI House, to build an inference library that runs on all chips, raised a $15M seed (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/infe

Inference startup Infinity raises $15M from Touring Capital, OpenAI and Anthropic researchers | TechCrunch
AI infrastructure company Infinity announced Monday a $15 million raise at a $100 million valuation from investors including Touring Capital, Principal VC, and researchers from companies such as OpenAI and Anthropic.  

At some point, someone's gonna combine these and it will be fucking hilarious.
https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/captured-logs-hackers-claude-codex-companies-2026/
https://github.com/cyberpapiii/chipotlai-max
https://thehackernews.com/2026/06/researchers-build-self-replicating-ai.html
Bonus hilarity if it's a Butlerian Jihadist.

A chuckle-worthy thread over on BSky:
#AI #LLM

tef (@tef.bsky.social)
CAPITAL: We have invented a machine that can cross picket lines PROGRAMMERS: I bet this will give us four day weekends. The left need to get behind this. What else can it do CAPITAL: Psychosis! Deepfakes! Propaganda! Plagerism! Yaml! Todo Apps! PROGRAMMERS: Run those last two past me again

Hong Kong-based Qupital, which offers cross-border ecommerce financing to SMEs, raised a $300M Series C led by M Capital as it weighs a possible IPO (FinTech Global)
https://fintech.global/2026/09/15/qupital-eyes-ipo-after-landmark-300m-series-c-round/

Qupital eyes IPO after landmark $300m Series C round
Qupital, an AI-driven trade finance platform focused on cross-border e-commerce, has raised $300m in combined new capital, anchored by a Series C funding round aimed at accelerating its expansion into overseas markets. The financing was led by Asia-based asset manager M Capital, with additional asset-backed securities commitments from Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) and Quester […]

Cybersecurity data company Prevalent AI raised $22M from Integrity Growth Partners, marking the nine-year-old startup's first-ever outside capital raise (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/08/19/prevalent-a…

Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE
Prevalent AI raises first outside capital in nine years with $22M round - SiliconANGLE

Flipkart co-founder Sachin Bansal's fintech startup Navi raised $100M from Prosus, its first institutional capital raise, sources say at a ~$1.3B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/sach

Sachin Bansal's fintech Navi raises first outside capital with $100M Prosus investment | TechCrunch
The investment comes amid Navi plans to go public.

Nvidia, with quarterly free cash flow up 18x over the past three years to $48.5B, is using its balance sheet and credit rating to build an AI capital moat (Ari Levy/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/18/nvidias-ai-moat-is-shifting-from-chips-to-capital.…

Nvidia's AI moat is shifting from chips to capital
Nvidia still has dominant market share in AI chips, but with competition picking up steam, the company is taking greater advantage of another key asset.