Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
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Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Mistral AI reported to be raising €3 billion Series D round
Capital
Cognition reports $2 billion Series E at $48 billion valuation
Security
Microsoft fixes 974 flaws, including two exploited Windows zero-days
Security
BigBear phishing operation reportedly bypassed MFA at 258 organizations
Infrastructure
Humain reported to raise $2.5 billion for Saudi AI data centers
Infrastructure
TSMC says Arizona chip plan has grown to $265 billion
Security
Cloudflare rolls out early access to AI-driven vulnerability remediation
Infrastructure
Fab2 reports $500 million Series A for modular chip-fab buildout
Infrastructure
NASA commits up to $700 million for Blue Origin Mars relay network
Robotics
Xpeng commissions Iron humanoid production line
Security
N-able issues hotfix for N-central zero-day
AI
Anthropic makes Fable 5.1 available through Claude for Government
Capital
D-Wave finalizes access to up to $100 million in CHIPS funding
Policy
Australia releases draft online duty-of-care rules
Infrastructure
Goodman wins approval for 135MW Sydney data center
AI
Anthropic reportedly declines Decart AI acquisition
Security
Chrome 153 fixes actively exploited V8 flaw
AI
AWS makes GPT-6 Astra available through Bedrock
Security
CISA adds exploited Chromium V8 flaw to KEV catalog
Infrastructure
HCLTech opens Bengaluru semiconductor testing lab
Security
Veradigm reports vendor credential breach exposed patient data
Products
Apple unveils iPhone 18 Pro models for September 18 release
AI
Meta says it launched Muse personal AI agent
Infrastructure
Northampton and Provident plan 54MW Dallas data center
Robotics
XPeng says IRON humanoid robot has entered production phase
Infrastructure
1NCE launches benchmarking and unified AI access for IoT customers
Robotics
NEURA and SECO plan European compute modules for cognitive robots
Security
Vishing campaign targets executives for Microsoft 365 data theft
Science
Google says AlphaGenome Atlas is available for academic research
Infrastructure
Google reported to back Finnish AI sites with long-term nuclear power deal
Science
Thea Energy releases peer-reviewed Helios fusion plant design papers
Products
Apple announces foldable iPhone Duo, with October availability
AI
SageMaker expands MLflow registry sync with metrics and lineage
Infrastructure
UK air-traffic-control fault disrupts flights after system recovery
Security
Report says LG TVs record and retain data during standby
Security
MikroTik patches RouterOS flaws linked to device takeovers
AI
OpenAI contracts Malaysia AI compute from Firmus
Infrastructure
ASML and chipmakers outline larger-mask High-NA EUV roadmap
Robotics
UForce reportedly discusses financing at about $5 billion valuation
Policy
ARIA chair Matt Clifford to leave after taking Anthropic role
Robotics
Lyft begins offering Waymo robotaxi rides in Nashville
Products
Shopify brings Tailwind Labs into its organization
AI
OpenAI posts formalized Navier-Stokes result but declines Millennium Prize claim
Products
OpenAI adds Sketch controls and Images 2.5 to ChatGPT
Policy
China reports 129.8% year-on-year rise in semiconductor exports
Security
Ivanti discloses 10 flaws across EPMM, Neurons and Sentry
Capital
Bluecore Energy reports $50 million seed round for floating nuclear plants
Policy
Report identifies Border Patrol teams using financial-data analysis for traffic-stop targeting
AI
Report alleges OpenAI model reached disputed Navier-Stokes result
Science
Ethereum protocol team sets 2029 quantum-resistance target
AI
Anthropic adds statistical text marks to two Claude models
Science
Intel passes one million High-NA EUV wafers, studies larger masks
AI
Arm announces Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU with neural graphics hardware
AI
HiDream.ai announces embodied world model for robot tasks
AI
Northside ISD plans October rollout of ChatGPT for Teachers
Products
Dell reports $16.4 billion in quarterly AI systems sales
AI
AWS introduces Ray Serve container for model inference
AI
AWS adds feature-level writes to SageMaker Feature Store
AI
AWS adds direct long-term memory ingestion to AgentCore
Infrastructure
Arm introduces Neoverse CSS N4 cloud chip-design platform
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IBM Thinkpad & Acquisition of RedHat, discussion on American dominance & open-source Chinese models
