Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
Crusoe CEO cites nearly $4 billion funding, valuation near $31 billion
Security
Cisco patches max-severity ISE zero-day under active exploitation
Security
Cisco warns of actively exploited ISE authentication bypass
AI
Google says Gemini hacked three companies in May test, then stopped
Security
Port of Los Angeles reports 120 million cyberattack attempts
Capital
Vantora raises $100 million to build proprietary physical-AI startups for corporates
Capital
Mazama Energy raises $135 million Series B for superhot geothermal wells
Science
Anthropic says Claude optimized 30-plus biomolecular models, open-sources code
Policy
US nearly boarded Chinese ship on false AI-assisted cargo report, CNN says
AI
Google DeepMind releases Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber to trusted defenders via Fairwind
Capital
MISUMI Americas launches $50 million robotics venture fund
Capital
Veridion raises $20M Series A led by Hoxton Ventures
Security
CISA issues BOD 26-04 prioritizing high-risk vulnerability patching for federal agencies
Capital
Comp AI raises $34 million Series A for compliance platform
Security
CISA launches VINCE-NT vulnerability disclosure platform
Products
Ryft secures €23 million Series B for payments expansion
Capital
Treble raises €15 million for acoustic AI simulation
AI
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 now available on Amazon Bedrock
Infrastructure
CleanSpark plans $2.227B secured notes for Sandersville data center
AI
UN opens Google-backed Data Commons for AI-queryable statistics
AI
OpenAI launches Astra for Law with GPT-6 for select firms
Security
CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited Pixel modem zero-day in three days
AI
AWS adds Gemma 4 open-weight models to Bedrock in EU sovereign cloud
Infrastructure
AWS opens general availability of T8i burstable EC2 instances
Robotics
Figure releases Helix 2.5, says robots worked in 30 rented Bay Area homes
AI
xAI ships Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on speech-to-text API
AI
Primus for Math launches as autonomous AI research tool built with Maplesoft
AI
AWS launches GPU-aware SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway
AI
PrismML releases 5.9 GB Bonsai 2 model compressed from Qwen 27B
AI
OpenAI sets disclosure framework for AI model misalignment incidents
AI
Unredacted Times filing quotes Microsoft scientist calling AI scraping historic theft
AI
AWS launches Amazon Connect Talent for AI-led hiring
AI
MRH Trowe deploys governed AI agents to about 400 staff
Security
Researchers reportedly recover Flock camera media through stored key
Security
ESET reports SparroWocky backdoor in Latin American government attacks
AI
AWS ships next-gen AgentCore Runtime with elastic memory and 2-second cold starts
Infrastructure
FAA SMART AI tool may debut Monday for Washington-area airspace
Capital
Polyrizon files F-1 to register 404,166 shares from September 2026 private placement
Infrastructure
Google outlines FireSat initiative using AI and smaller satellites for wildfire detection
AI
Anthropic says Claude drives more than a quarter of its AI R&D
Infrastructure
Oregon data centers accounted for 23% of 2025 retail energy sales, report finds
Capital
NAVER D2SF joins $10M bridge for ImpriMed's AI precision medicine push
Robotics
Waymo names Singapore as next international robotaxi market, targeting 2028 service
Security
Revolut says data on about 680 customers disclosed after spoofed government email
Security
Zimperium reports RatHat malware using AI to navigate Android devices
Science
NASA selects SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare for StarBurst gamma-ray mission
Science
CCNY physicists convert microwave signals to light in CrSBr crystal
Infrastructure
Tesla outlines 21-site European megawatt truck-charging network
Policy
Judge orders Google ad-tech interoperability, declines DOJ breakup
AI
Science paper details 37,000-agent virtual biotech for drug discovery
AI
Meta Oversight Board orders removal of two AI deepfake videos
Infrastructure
Pine59 moves production data pipelines to Google's Airflow 3 service
AI
Anthropic adds cloud project orchestration to Claude Code for select users
AI
Google pilots payments to sites whose content appears in AI Overviews
Policy
Apple to allow alternative EU app tracking consent screens
AI
Instinct and Meta's Muse add business-calling features
AI
Sources say Anthropic plans November IPO, later than expected
AI
Times filing cites ChatGPT head and Microsoft executive on AI training harm
Policy
EU proposes associate membership path for Canada
AI
AWS reports synthetic-data gains for industrial safety detection
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