Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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TypeSafe AI raises about $870 million at $7.5 billion valuation
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CleanSpark says $2.276 billion debt closing funds Sandersville completion
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Oxide raises $445M Series D to fund inventory and manufacturing
Capital
Kapital secures $130M financing and acquires Woz Code for $30M
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Nvidia commits $1B over five years to US AI research capacity
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Monte Carlo Capital closes €13 million toward second venture fund
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Danu Robotics raises $5 million as recycling robots begin shipping
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Sabi raises $50M seed for cap intended to turn neural signals into AI prompts
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Huntress finds exploited AhsayCBS flaws persist in latest release
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FBI arrests suspected ShinyHunters member linked to agency breach
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Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raises $37.5M led by Bain Capital
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Microchip acquires VORAGO's radiation-resistant chip business
Infrastructure
Deno team joins Cloudflare and sets timeline to close Deploy
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iRhythm reports patient-data breach and updates financial guidance
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US sanctions on ICC restrict service providers, with software exemptions
Capital
Besso secures €4.29 million to expand trade regulation platform
AI
OpenAI forecasts $70bn year-end revenue run rate in funding talks
Robotics
ROBOTERA reports manipulation benchmark lead for open-source VPP2
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Ecosia CEO says move from Mistral prioritizes open models and European hosting
Capital
Klarent closes €7.13 million seed round for US expansion
AI
Preprint proposes matrix compression method that matches or improves standard approximation
AI
ARTEX developer says AI agent has become closed source
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Airtel Money plans London trading debut on Friday
AI
Cloudflare releases Clef-omni and cuts Clef-flash price and context
Infrastructure
Oracle trucks natural gas to support data center construction schedules
Infrastructure
SpaceX acquiring Grain Management spectrum for indoor satellite cell service
Science
IonQ reports quantum memory link exceeding 1,000 connections per second
Products
Micron reports fiscal 2026 DRAM revenue of $100.68 billion
AI
SoftBank seeks up to $100 billion from Gulf investors for AI
Infrastructure
Lumentum CEO says optical components are sold out through early 2029
AI
Some Linux maintainers now expect AI reviews before accepting patches
AI
Microsoft presents Surface Laptop Ultra for running large AI models locally
Infrastructure
Amazon says it will end NDAs in local government data center negotiations
Products
Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports and upgraded experimental compiler
Infrastructure
Yandex says drone attack disabled modules at Kaluga data center
Products
Gigabyte rolls out BIOS support for upcoming Intel CPUs on B760 and H610 boards
Products
Flock to cut workforce by 18% through voluntary buyouts
Products
Microsoft 365 shared plans to replace per-user storage with 2TB pool
Security
Researcher detects attack attempts against patched SonicWall SMA1000 flaw
AI
Google begins limiting free Gemini accounts to Flash-Lite
Security
MonsterCloud owner faces fraud charges over alleged hidden ransom payments
Products
Meta bars ads directing users to ByteDance apps in seven countries
AI
Meta leaders knew of Muse safety concerns before launch, account alleges
AI
WIRED tests show M5 Ultra Mac Studio running large AI models locally
Infrastructure
Kioxia samples LD4 storage drives with architecture validated for 122.88 TB
Capital
Records reveal fire-response limits at Castelion's New Mexico missile factory
Products
Penguin reports $567 million Q4 revenue and Norway AI factory deal
Security
Citrix urges NetScaler patching for critical remote code execution flaw
Security
Microsoft's MXC provides SDKs for containing untrusted code across operating systems
AI
Nullify preprint reports selective LLM forgetting without weight updates
Science
NEMORA preprint reports long-range atomistic learning at hundreds of thousands of atoms
AI
Preprint reports schema-free generation of valid enterprise test data
AI
Preprint reports task-completion gains from agent-generated interfaces
AI
Amazon Bedrock adds reasoning summaries for OpenAI models
AI
AWS adds Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 to Kiro in GovCloud
Infrastructure
AWS brings S3 Vectors pre-filtering to GovCloud
Robotics
Tesla renames European driving system as Germany backs approval effort
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AWS Lambda adds OAuth access to self-managed Kafka workloads
Infrastructure
Cloudflare adds production CPU and memory profiling for Workers
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Ai2 replaces GPU priorities with research budgets and time sharing
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