Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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AI
OpenAI closes roughly $11 billion in funding at $1.25 trillion valuation
Products
Motorola Solutions closes $1.3 billion D-Fend acquisition
Robotics
GenRobot AI raises $100 million for robot training data infrastructure
AI
Ocient raises $100 million to expand AI analytics business
Security
OpenAI partners with Hacktron to test vulnerabilities across connected services
Security
SonicWall patches exploited VPN authentication bypass; CISA sets deadline
Security
Chainalysis says breach exposed password hashes and live tokens for all users
Science
Researchers demonstrate temperature sensor powered by nearby electrical wiring
Science
NASA expands lunar delivery contracts and awards rover transport
Security
Researchers find secrets in 1,122 public Claude Code settings files
Infrastructure
Blizzard used 3,924 virtual machines for World of Warcraft: Forever launch
Security
WorkOS links breach to researcher who claims AI agent escaped testing
Security
Pwn.ai demonstrates Firecracker guest escape on a host running it as root
Capital
Ondine Capital announces first close of third fund for AI and semiconductors
Infrastructure
Google buys Crusoe's Wyoming data centre site to build it itself
Infrastructure
Calix reports hardware margin pressure as software contracts expand
Robotics
DJI launches Matrice 5T with thermal imaging and radar for night operations
Capital
Sequoia ends scout program and closes London office in overhaul
AI
OpenAI opens outbound GPT-Live phone calls to all organizations
Products
Huawei launches its first HarmonyOS desktop for enterprise and government
Infrastructure
Firefly says NASA added it to $10 billion lunar delivery contract
AI
Llama-modchip developers claim DeepSeek model runs on a 64 GB CPU system
AI
Meta ships specialized models with Active Memory and Active Focus
Infrastructure
ING seeks buyers for approximately $500 million in data center loans
Science
MIT modules retain electrical connections as structures change shape
Science
Two-ion experiment simulates how quantum flux controls particle motion
Security
Coldframe offers decoy refrigeration controllers to record attacks
Products
Binance names Justin Yek to replace departing CFO Kaiser Ng
Policy
EU preliminary findings challenge TikTok's recommendation design
AI
Claude testing finds game cloning blocked while modding still works
Policy
House committee chairs seek Nvidia briefing over alleged Chinese espionage
Products
Purge review finds a way to remove Apple Intelligence models from macOS 27
Security
Three men face charges in alleged AI executive impersonation scheme
Policy
Incoming congressman Lawrence seeks federal data center moratorium
Infrastructure
Inner Mongolia AI campus built 120MW within a year
Products
Asahi Linux begins move to GPL licensing across its repositories
Security
OpenSSH 10.6p2 fixes login bypass affecting Alpine Linux
AI
China allegedly recruited Nvidia customer executive to gather chip intelligence
Science
IBM, AMD and Oak Ridge announce colocated quantum error-correction platform
AI
AWS adds Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro to Amazon Bedrock
AI
OpenAI says weekly image generation exceeds 4 billion
Security
Japan announces emergency cybersecurity package with AI response teams planned
Policy
Blumenthal seeks Apple donation records ahead of possible January subpoenas
Products
Kraken prepares Anthropic IPO token offer excluding U.S. investors
Products
Apple says iPhone Duo now has over 100,000 optimized apps
Science
Researchers build tunable three-component quantum simulator with atom-level imaging
Capital
Shield AI secures $2 billion in equity and $500 million in debt
Security
InfoHawk finds 820 suspicious domains impersonating restaurant brands
AI
Google separates school Search and Gemini controls after backlash
Security
Malicious GitHub security projects target cybersecurity professionals
Security
Censys finds more than 800 Artex deployments exposed without passwords
AI
Anthropic-backed Public First spent $63M+ in midterms; 10 backed candidates won
Infrastructure
Records point to SpaceX supercomputer project in Texas
AI
Investigation links approved H200 handlers to sanctioned firms
Robotics
Axon invests $1.2B in Skydio for minority stake
AI
Nvidia reports faster FLUX 3 image generation with VisualGen optimizations
AI
Anthropic presses ahead with planned $80B-$100B IPO before Thanksgiving
AI
Vercel adds DeepSeek search and page retrieval to AI Gateway
AI
Vercel adds streamed interface cards to Chat SDK agents
AI
AWS brings Agent Registry to GovCloud US-West
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