Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
Amazon commits more than €16 billion to German operations in 2027
Capital
ASI raises $325 million at $3 billion valuation
Capital
Inspired Capital closes $450 million fourth fund
Capital
Otter.ai raises $320 million in non-equity financing from General Catalyst fund
Robotics
Eka Robotics raises $150 million at $1.45 billion valuation
Robotics
Reliable Robotics raises $115 million to pursue autonomous flight certification
Capital
Mural raises $15 million for international payments platform
AI
Electric Plant raises $11.2 million for AI plant-sensing system
AI
Google makes Gemini 3.5 Flash and B300 compute available on air-gapped cloud
AI
Arda raises $230M at $1.5B valuation for manufacturing AI
Capital
Daytona raises $60M Series B at $1B valuation
Capital
Firefly emerges from stealth with $20 million Series A
Security
Hacker sentenced to eight years over tax-business phishing scheme
Products
Olo launches nationwide delivery app with in-store menu prices
Products
Salesforce signs definitive agreement to acquire Braze
Science
Researchers demonstrate high-frequency charge detection in 2D quantum devices
Capital
Jooba announces $4 million seed round and opens recruiting service
Security
Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find exposed business and personal data
AI
Modal adopts Nvidia Vera CPUs after reporting twice the throughput in tests
AI
Google open-sources TorchTPU for native PyTorch workloads on TPUs
Infrastructure
AI computing supplier Elice falls 32% in Seoul debut
AI
Google opens preview of Gemini agents for government workflows
Infrastructure
Google Cloud begins recovery as outage disrupts banks and court hearings
AI
Databricks opens Agent Bricks memory service in beta
Infrastructure
AWS launches ECS Gateway to automate shared load balancing
AI
AWS opens Canadian Bedrock access to GPT models through regional routing
AI
Open-source scheduler turns PyTorch work mappings into IBM Spyre pipelines
AI
OpenAI makes GPT-6 Astra available through API for older programming languages
Policy
US orders civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek technology
AI
Mistral releases Voxtral 3 speech models and voice agent SDK
AI
GitLab opens beta dashboard for auditing coding agents
Security
Go security releases block eight certificate authority keys
AI
RBC chief considers blocking Meta's Muse from customer information
AI
China establishes centrally administered state-owned data group
AI
Meta directs 39% of October advertising spend to Muse as US downloads reach 10.2 million
Security
Chrome adds warnings for suspicious sites and copied scam commands
Robotics
Waymo reportedly targets 20,000 robotaxis by end of 2027
AI
Researchers reproduce AI agent society gains on four gaming GPUs
Infrastructure
US industrial construction grows as power needs reshape manufacturing sites
AI
Perplexity adds offline local mode for Computer on Mac
AI
Figma adds 20 partners for AI access through MCP
AI
Insilico says first Servier research milestone triggers payment
Capital
Vectorial announces $3 million seed round for customer simulation platform
Products
Spotify rolls out podcast memberships in 34 markets
AI
llm-d 1.0 adds traffic priorities and upgrade controls for model serving
Infrastructure
Microsoft extends remote boot recovery to Windows Server 2025
Products
3M ties Amazon stock warrant to data-center product purchases
AI
Yelp adds restaurant-calling AI and a $30 monthly lead-response service
Products
Equifax trims revenue outlook as management cites AI cost savings
AI
Google previews managed Gemini search for air-gapped data centers
Robotics
Ukraine says heavy-lift drone evacuated wounded soldier from mined territory
AI
Nebius gains PyTorch Foundation board seat through Platinum membership
AI
OpenAI reportedly retreats from push for strict China chip export limits
Products
TikTok staff depositions allege executives ignored child exploitation warnings
Infrastructure
Cloudflare offers experimental Rust port of TypeScript compiler
AI
Supabase adds scheduled production checks for coding agents
Infrastructure
Alibaba, Tencent and Huawei invest billions in Shaoguan data centers
Security
Leaked Cellebrite document describes new iPhone unlocking appliance
AI
ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent reportedly order 3M+ export-compliant Nvidia GPUs
Policy
UK CMA consults on proposed developer access to Apple's NFC technology
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