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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.

Catching up reading @…'s Cancer Capital series:
VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer…

VC isn’t VC anymore — understanding the rise of Cancer Capital
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Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/wildfires-on-doorstep-of-indonesias-new-capital-as-environmental-and-health-crisis-flares/

Wildfires on doorstep of Indonesia’s new capital as environmental and health crisis flares
PENAJAM PASER, Indonesia — Indonesia’s escalating wildfire crisis has reached the outskirts of Nusantara, the new capital city under construction as the world’s fourth-most-populous country seeks to transplant its political heartland from a flood plain in Java to the island of Borneo. Fires in mid-September burned 30 to 40 kilometers (19 to 25 miles) from […]

#Socialism #Capitalism

"The world is fast approaching temperature levels where insurers will no longer be able to offer cover for many climate risks, said Günther Thallinger, on the board of Allianz SE, one of the world’s biggest insurance companies. He said that without insurance, which is already being pulled in some places, many other financial services become unviable, from mortgages to investments."
#ClimateEmergency

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer
Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

iPhone Duo: Because capitalism has officially run out of ideas.

RE: https://front-end.social/@hdv/117285970784191758
An idea to kick things off:
Expel all surveillance capitalists from the W3C.
Here are some off the top of my head that are actively working with authoritarian regimes to destroy human rights and…

Sources: AI inference chip startup Etched is raising funds at a ~$20B valuation and is raising capital at a $10B valuation in a separate round led by Sequoia (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-chip-startu

Vantora, formerly UP.Labs, which builds AI-native startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers, raised $100M from Silversmith Capital Partners (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/18/a-sta…

A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI | TechCrunch
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.

Noetive, which is developing an industrial AI model for businesses in physical industries, emerges from stealth with a $41M seed led by Eclipse (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/pro/venture-capital/no