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 $1 billion to data center communities
Robotics
Fortem raises $50 million with Lockheed Martin participating
AI
Anthropic commits $100 million to Claude engineer training academy
AI
Broadcom syndicate seeks $60 billion for AI chip financing
Security
CISA adds detection rule for exploited NetScaler vulnerabilities
Products
TXO acquires Wesbell Communications to expand infrastructure services
Products
Google raises Pixel 10a starting price from $499 to $599
Infrastructure
Rocket Lab signs 20-launch agreement with Synspective
Policy
Sanders bill would ban federal use of license plate readers
Robotics
MIT demonstrates swimming robot driven by a single muscle-cell layer
Products
Hans Anders halts Ray-Ban Meta glasses sales in two countries
Robotics
Lyft opens Nashville depot ahead of Waymo vehicle arrivals
Infrastructure
Toshiba expands Philippine HDD plant to double nearline capacity
Security
Tower investigates ransomware group's claim of stolen insurer data
AI
Meta releases code to connect Muse with custom hardware
Products
GrapheneOS says its new release fixes Pixel kernel freezes
AI
Trillium Labs launches with plans to publish AI training experiments
Products
Spotify expands free children's managed accounts to parents on every plan
Infrastructure
Supabase opens OrioleDB beta and invites testing of database failover
Policy
Court filing alleges DHS stored ICE observer dossiers in Palantir-built system
AI
CoreWeave says Forge is live with agent testing and training tools
Infrastructure
Cloudflare opens log delivery and transformation tools to all plans
Infrastructure
Supabase releases scoped tokens and enterprise authentication for agent access
AI
Lockheed says OpenAI is working with its F-35 team on sensor challenges
AI
Preprint reports faster GB200 training with polynomial function replacements
AI
FP4 pretraining study reports faster throughput with training-loss tradeoffs
AI
SaaStr says agent access estimate reaches $240,000 a year
Products
Accenture plans $1 billion investment in AI safety business
Infrastructure
Terafab construction begins in Texas as HPSP confirms test equipment delivery
Products
ChatGPT dots review identifies memory and enterprise control limits
AI
Decagon joins OpenAI marketplace program for enterprise purchases
Products
Zig 0.17.0 reworks builds and changes bit-casting behavior
Infrastructure
AWS adds managed traffic shifting for ECS services using VPC Lattice
AI
AI21 says automated GPU scheduling cuts priority job waits to 12 hours
Policy
US arrests tech CEO accused of diverting Nvidia servers to China
Security
Scam uses custom GPT and Google ads to direct users toward malware
AI
Apple plans stricter consent controls for macOS Full Disk Access
AI
DwarfStar 4 offers local inference through selective model compression
AI
Chatham says AI trade checks cut review time to under four minutes
Robotics
FieldAI signs term sheet for $700M round at $10B valuation
Security
GitLab fixes command-execution flaw in self-hosted AI Gateway
Infrastructure
AWS adds Kubernetes 1.37 support with idle workload scaling to zero
Products
Beehiiv raises paid-plan prices and renames subscription tiers
Infrastructure
Google previews temporary CPU boosts for GKE application startup
Infrastructure
Alibaba holds preliminary power talks with Solaria for Spanish data centre
Products
Pixel owners report lockouts after September update
Infrastructure
Linux and m1n1 changes enable native multicore boots on M4 Macs
Science
Lean plans four proof-checking kernels to guard against AI exploits
Capital
Anthropic IPO filing warns government actions could disrupt commercial business
Robotics
Fort Worth reports 162 emergency calls in Flock drone pilot
Robotics
US Army creates autonomous systems command, memo indicates
AI
Helion integration reports more than 10% inference gains for some vLLM workloads
Policy
DEFEND IP proposal would let rightsholders seek orders blocking entire websites
Infrastructure
AWS adds partial indexes to Aurora DSQL
Products
AWS Brazil automates local distribution of foreign SaaS licenses
Science
NASA tests pressure-sensitive paint on a large freely moving wing
AI
AWS reports fewer search-agent failures after multi-turn training
AI
Google moves Gboard model training to servers with auditable privacy controls
Infrastructure
Supabase adds Docker-free local development and app access for agents
AI
Cloudflare adds web search from three providers to AI Gateway
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