Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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AI
UK commits £100m to AI biosecurity lab
Infrastructure
Nvidia commits $1.1 billion advance for US chip testing expansion
AI
Dream Labs announces $90M seed funding and public robot-control API
Infrastructure
Ember agrees to buy subsea technology supplier Ashtead for approximately £505 million
Capital
Coherence Neuro raises $45 million for brain cancer implant development
Capital
Mach9 raises $34 million for AI-assisted civil engineering software
AI
llm-d releases version 1.0 with stable interfaces and shared inference controls
Capital
Pascal raises $8.5 million after securing refrigeration pilot contract
Products
Musk plans SpaceX-Tesla merger that would create $3.6T company
Science
Researchers demonstrate single-positron trap with motion and spin readout
Security
PHP releases fixes for two critical runtime vulnerabilities
Security
UK watchdog reprimands Ogi Networks and Data Cymru over children's data breach
Science
Encore says Solstar demonstrated spacecraft Wi-Fi during NASA mission
Infrastructure
Texas suspends 17 data center permits and disables automatic approvals
AI
OpenAI expands ChatGPT advertising to 26 additional countries
Security
Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers uncover discoverable private conversations
Products
Spotify launches native app in five Audi models
AI
Nvidia expands DGX Spark clusters to eight systems
Security
Brotli flaw extends beyond Node.js to Python and other HTTP software
Security
CISA adds PHP2Shell detection rule and urges unpatched systems offline
Products
Anthropic draft filing reportedly details about $450 billion in cloud commitments
AI
OpenAI says frontier training runs now use an offline web environment
Policy
EU opens Booking.com probe over fraudulent listings and phishing
AI
ServiceNow and Nvidia make Arc enterprise agent available on Mac
Infrastructure
Google makes Blackwell Ultra systems available for air-gapped cloud deployments
Security
Google makes Confidential G4 GPU instances available across 36 zones
Security
PHP2Shell workaround falls short as PHP prepares October 21 fix
Science
Nvidia releases cuDSS to move simulation calculations onto GPUs
Robotics
Underwater robot maneuvers in three dimensions with two actuators
Policy
Proton hosts Flock camera map worldwide amid legal threats
Security
PHP flaws draw millions of attack attempts, with no successful exploitation seen
Products
Arc browser will become unusable by Christmas
Science
Merck and Moderna report 42 percent lower recurrence-or-death risk in melanoma trial
Infrastructure
Video shows Chinese workshops converting RTX 5090 cards for servers
Security
GMO seeks Japanese state cyber intervention after trading-server breach
Products
Linux module targets higher AI computation rates on Nvidia RTX 3000 cards
Robotics
BAE tests quadcopter that engages multiple targets without reloading
AI
Databricks makes AI Runtime generally available for GPU model training
Robotics
Nvidia releases Isaac Lab 3.0 and adds robot deployment tools
AI
Moonshot introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro across apps and API
Products
Axios creates business selling news feeds for company AI systems
Science
NASA announces overhaul of science mission competitions
Products
Nvidia driver adds cloud-precompiled shaders for supported PC games
Science
Researchers use AI to generate 15,000 simulated climate years in six hours
Security
Apple blocks eight compromised certificates as engineer warns of Mac trust gap
AI
PerturbAI and OpenAI report 32-minute analysis of brain genomic data
AI
AI Proteins signs Astellas agreement with over $400 million in potential payments
AI
AMD moves CPU inference optimizations into Intel-backed oneDNN
Infrastructure
Nvidia says European partners are building data centers using DSX
AI
Snowflake customers gain access to Nvidia Kumo for relational predictions
Products
TikTok employees allege company profited from child exploitation content
Science
Nucelion to manufacture VeGen Bio's clinical-stage cell therapy in India
AI
Google Cloud plans Vera Rubin instance availability next month
Infrastructure
Nscale tests show more GPUs operating within the same power budget
Security
Nvidia introduces confidential computing for dedicated third-party servers
Policy
Trump calls for large new data centers to generate their own electricity
AI
Amazon Bedrock adds domain and location controls to web search
Security
Cloudflare adds response blocking to its web application firewall
AI
OpenAI plans model access through Google Cloud and Antigravity
AI
IBM reports faster runtime model monitoring and steering with vLLM plugin
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