Capital coverage.

Cognitive Mercantilism: AI panic resembles fears of early capitalism

CapitalOS, which helps vertical software platforms offer spend management, cards, and bill payment tools to SMB customers, raised a $21.9M Series A led by LGVP (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Seven missing after multi-storey building collapses in Kenya's capital

Capital One: Discover Makes It Interesting But The Credit Cycle Decides

Orchid Island Capital, Inc. (ORC) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Meta's Hunt for AI Capital Strikes a Raw Nerve on Wall Street

Above Iran’s Capital, a Trump Impersonator Dances in a Jail Cell

Above Iran’s Capital, a Trump Impersonator Dances in a Jail Cell

Russia pounds Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with missiles and drones, hours after agreeing to peace talks

Russian attacks on Ukraine’s capital with ballistic missiles and drones overnight into Thursday killed one person and wounded 22, Ukrainian authorities said.…

The era of speedball capitalism has dawned

Tesla Shares Fall 3% After Cutting Capital Spending

House prices falling in every Australian capital city for first time in 15 years

Meta says it will create a new class of nonvoting stock to raise the capital it needs for developing AI models, with an effective date in January 2027 (Meghan Bobrowsky/Wall Street Journal)

Whop, which helps people start, run, and scale businesses and uses AI to suggest business decisions, raised $205M led by Sequoia Capital at a $5.1B valuation (Natasha Mascarenhas/Bloomberg)

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith raised a $66M Series C led by Sequoia Capital at a $1B valuation, up from $550M after raising a $45M Series B in August (Beatrice Nolan/Fortune)

Loop Capital Cuts Apple Rating Over iPhone Sales Outlook

MPs urge UK government to play venture capitalist with taxpayer-funded tech

Loop Capital cuts AAPL target to $330 over complicated 2026-2027 iPhone cycle

Former top OpenAI employees raises capital for defense startup valued at $1.5B - CNBC

Inspired Capital closes $450M fourth fund as New York pushes back on Silicon Valley’s gravitational pull

Note-taking tool Otter.ai raised $320M in non-dilutive capital from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund; PitchBook says it raised $50M prior to this round (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Residents warned not to drink tap water after hundreds fall sick near South Africa capital

Analysis: London fell from 7th to last place out of 18 European capitals for median mobile download speed from 2021 to 2026; 5G adoption has outrun 5G capacity (Luke Kehoe/Ookla)

London’s mobile networks fall to bottom of Europe’s capital league

Healey to reject calls to raise capital gains tax in budget

OpenAI Accelerates Fundraising to Compete for AI Market Capital - NAI500

Chancellor rejects calls to raise Capital Gains Tax in Budget

Palo Alto Networks CEO Advises Daughter on New AI-Focused Venture Capital Fund

Technocapitalist AI-Powered Blues

Dream Labs, which offers an API for its Dream-1 robot foundation model trained on human videos, raised a $90M seed led by B Capital and Kindred Ventures (John Koetsier/Forbes)