Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
GlobalFoundries starts construction of Japan-funded New York chip fab
Infrastructure
Nscale filing reveals $5.5B debt and larger Nvidia financing commitment
Capital
Drogue raises $20 million for ocean-powered floating data centers
Capital
VectorY raises €74.5 million to advance ALS therapy trial
Capital
ValkaAI extends pre-seed funding round to €13 million
Products
Blue Acquisition postpones shareholder vote on Blockfusion combination
Products
Smartbird warns most convertible-note funding remains optional
Capital
NeuralSat raises €2.9 million for satellite relay and computing network
Infrastructure
Microsoft links global outage to network upgrade as services recover
AI
DeepX plans more than $100 million for chip using Samsung's 2 nanometer process
Security
Uber notifies drivers of license data theft through Fireworks AI
Security
Check Point reports gateway exploit chain used to deploy backdoors and wipers
AI
Research finds signs of Blackwell training in Chinese open-weight AI models
Robotics
Caltech payload demonstrates robotic truss assembly in orbit
Security
Researchers demonstrate attacks on AMD confidential virtual machines
Robotics
BYD demonstrates megawatt charging hub with prototype robotic connector
AI
Anthropic deploys fix for Claude service authentication problems
AI
Cerebras unveils Oracle and Microsoft deals alongside stronger sales guidance
AI
Google opens research agent tools and reports verified software rewrites
Policy
Epic asks Supreme Court to preserve Apple's App Store contempt ruling
Security
Project Zero removes patch rollout buffer and sets shorter disclosure deadlines
AI
AWS expands AgentCore support to OAuth servers without OpenID Connect
Security
OpenAI launches tools for web app testing and automated defense
Infrastructure
Samsung in talks to acquire data center cooling maker Modine
Products
Arbitrator imposes union contract for Amazon warehouse workers in Canada
AI
Company founded by Alice Huang procured smuggled AI chips, documents indicate
Security
Trezor confirms recovery-phrase stealing implants in three Safe 5 wallets
AI
Apple extends Siri AI to older Apple TV 4K models
AI
Perplexity extends Teammates agents to Mac subscribers
Infrastructure
Cornelis introduces 800G networking for AI clusters and supercomputers
Science
Brookhaven-led AI method improves particle-jet reconstruction in simulations
Science
Microalgae feed replaces fish ingredients without reducing trout growth in tests
AI
Disney+ to carry AI-animated children's series Ozzy Fox in December
Policy
Bessent says four US agencies backed blacklisting Megaspeed
Infrastructure
Microsoft reports broader recovery but services remain degraded
AI
Palantir's US commercial revenue overtakes government sales
Science
Researchers steer cell alignment with light-powered silicon arrays
AI
Nvidia reportedly plans to continue Huang inquiry after his resignation
Capital
Anthropic returns to operating loss as short-term compute costs rise
Security
Enea identifies telecom intrusions that intercepted authentication texts
AI
Arm says mobile neural graphics reach commercial devices and game engines
Policy
Malaysia investigates possible re-exports of Speedmatrix AI chips
Science
NASA seeks industry proposals to extend Hubble's life or manage its disposal
Capital
Incision secures €4 million for US healthcare software expansion
AI
AWS reports AssemblyAI inference compute savings of 70 percent using Spot instances
AI
AWS adds live inference data capture to SageMaker HyperPod
AI
Nvidia's $500B lending consortium faces possible lender exit
AI
OpenAI disbands standalone robotics team and redistributes staff
AI
Anthropic IPO excludes institutional investors in mainland China and Hong Kong
Products
Nvidia board approaches Arm chief Rene Haas in CEO search
Infrastructure
AWS adds Aurora PostgreSQL express configuration to CloudFormation
AI
OpenAI adds purchasing capability through ChatGPT Wallet
AI
SpaceX reportedly cuts most of Grok Imagine's team
AI
AWS adds Grok 4.7 to Kiro in US GovCloud regions
AI
DeepX completes DX-M2 design for on-device AI in robots and drones
Security
AWS adds organization-wide policies for Security Hub CSPM
AI
AWS adds role-based tool layouts to SageMaker Unified Studio
Infrastructure
AWS stages Oracle database maintenance resources to shorten downtime
Security
AWS Batch adds security settings for restricted EKS clusters
Security
AWS adds synchronized secrets across separate accounts
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