Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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AI
Fal raises $1.3 billion at $16 billion valuation
Infrastructure
I Squared Capital closes $3 billion infrastructure credit fund
Robotics
Chinese embodied AI companies raised approximately $13B in first half of 2026
Products
Eagle Point Software buys Global eTraining
Science
MIT-led team receives up to $38 million for disease-monitoring patch
Security
Singapore Airlines affected by software provider breach
Capital
Crediflow AI raises €1.8 million to expand loan processing automation
Policy
US export approval hold complicates Solidigm's New York chip plant plans
Capital
JawBuddy raises €818k to fund jaw therapy study and reimbursement efforts
Security
CISA adds exploited WordPress upgrade flaw to vulnerability catalog
Capital
Tallia raises €4 million for AI tax research and drafting
Capital
Karnataka tech funding rises as fewer startups secure first investment
Infrastructure
SatPort buys Speedcast ground infrastructure across 11 countries
Security
Chainstack discloses breach affecting customer data and password hashes
Products
Apple extends confidential-information ban to prediction market bets
Capital
Ballistic Ventures seeks $490 million across two new funds
AI
Apple opens developer testing of China AI platform and listening tools
AI
Fireworks opens faster inference preview and adds half-price background tasks
AI
Anthropic releases FlashProve code to verify which model produced a response
AI
Apple opens Siri app skills to third-party developers
Products
Canva restructuring affects 1,271 staff through role changes, moves and layoffs
Products
Ubisoft and other bidders reportedly offer to buy Arkane from Microsoft
AI
AMD forecasts $17 billion in fourth-quarter revenue
AI
Sarvam releases Prism decision model through API and Apache-licensed weights
Products
Vercel opens CI to repositories without linked projects
AI
Google releases engineering tasks and tools for AI agent evaluation
Infrastructure
California accepts $1.42 billion for broadband while challenging net neutrality demand
Robotics
Chinese robotics fundraising slows to $1.6 billion in October
AI
Chinese AI developers expect only a small share of Nvidia chip orders
AI
Meta says independent ads feature releases reach production approximately 3.6x faster
Security
Vercel opens automated code security reviews to Pro and Enterprise teams
AI
Super Micro raises annual sales outlook
AI
MEMENTO study improves book question answering with a 20K-token context
Science
CheXPoT study improves AI radiology reports by removing unsupported findings
Security
OpenAI increases bug bounty rewards to a maximum of $172,000
AI
Salesforce says Slack handles 127 million automated tool calls weekly
Products
LendingTree rolls out voice AI and staged lender contact
AI
Anthropic's compute bill rises to $9.86 billion as discounts offset growth
AI
Apple adds GitHub Copilot to Xcode 27.3 beta
Science
Researchers cut superconducting qubit errors with a preliminary measurement
AI
Apple adds four Siri AI languages in iOS 27.3 beta
AI
DreamX preprint reports 300× compression of video action representations
Robotics
GUILD preprint reports more efficient collection of robot training data
Security
mSecure warns customers of suspicious activity and suggests credential resets
Products
SUSE plans to cut one in 10 jobs, citing AI and automation
AI
ARIA lab to test Lumai optical AI servers in commercial data centre
Products
Windows 11 update reduces memory use on PCs with 8GB of RAM
Robotics
RoboTryOn study reports robot task success rising from 2% to 60%
Security
Microsoft Authenticator will move Android backups to Google One in January
AI
Google plans school AI restrictions that also block student Search access
Science
Sandia researchers model asteroid deflection with faster simulations
Robotics
WayTrace researchers report robot navigation over routes up to 1.37 km
Security
BlackX bootkit infected Windows systems with security patches installed
Infrastructure
OpenAI says Georgia power agreement includes 1,000 megawatts of flexible demand
Products
Dynatrace cuts profit outlook and adds $1 billion to buyback
Policy
Google says schools can enable Search and Gemini services separately
AI
Revolut says self-hosted models cut AI coding inference costs by roughly 90%
AI
Apple puts camera-based movement assessments in redesigned Health beta
AI
DeepMind staff seek removal of clauses they say deter AI risk warnings
AI
AWS adds India-only inference for Kimi K3 on Bedrock
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