Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Disruptive reportedly secures $7.5B for late-stage fund
Capital
Stuut announces $52.5 million Series B for finance automation
Robotics
Waymo reportedly increases inaugural debt raise to $5 billion
Capital
Siena raises $17 million to expand AI agents for consumer brands
Capital
Xcimer secures agreement for up to $30.5 million in DOE funding
Infrastructure
SpaceX seeks $40 billion financing to buy Nvidia chips
Capital
Capitolis raises $220M, including Series E at $1.9B valuation
Capital
Turba Labs emerges from stealth with $52M in seed and Series A funding
Capital
African startup equity funding rises 23 percent as debt falls
Infrastructure
Infineon completes C2i acquisition for AI server power control
Security
FBI and Secret Service warn FortiBleed enables lockouts and ransomware
Security
Atlassian file-access flaw draws exploitation attempts as fixes become available
AI
Kurate preprint demonstrates evidence-quality scoring across 4,347 papers
Security
Anthropic reports 5,500 verified vulnerabilities found from April to October
AI
Google opens experimental Playground game creator to US adults
Products
Xreal sets Aura glasses price at $1,279 and opens limited preorders
AI
Common Sense Media urges pause after testing ChatGPT teen safeguards
Capital
CureMeAbroad closes $1.1 million pre-seed round
Robotics
Boston Dynamics appoints Rohit Prasad as chief executive
AI
SAP agrees to acquire TechWolf and announces October HR assistant availability
AI
TII opens Falcon-ASR demo with reported gains in Arabic transcription
Capital
Atomic Machines emerges with $250M and ships data centre switches for evaluation
AI
Atlassian ships code context and expands Jira coding agent integrations
AI
Atlassian opens Loom video briefs to agents and adds external workflow triggers
AI
Atlassian expands MCP access to enterprise workflows with 220+ tools
AI
Mistral Large 4 preview becomes available through its API
Products
SAP makes ERP-linked Commerce Cloud edition generally available
Security
Apple releases image verification that preserves photographer anonymity
AI
Atlassian makes workforce routing and AI change risk workflows generally available
Infrastructure
Musk says his businesses will build and operate Terafab independently
Infrastructure
PGX releases ranked search extension for PostgreSQL 17 and 18
AI
Google releases Nano Banana 2.1 with approximately 50% lower pricing
AI
Telegraph Test reports lower token use for model-readable records
AI
Verge test finds lower delivery total through Bites in ChatGPT
Products
Samsung Wallet adds digital keys for select Cadillac electric vehicles
Infrastructure
Chrome adds JPEG XL decoding support starting with version 155
Policy
Nonprofit linked to SpaceXAI lawyer finances federal design staff
AI
Books by People says UK approved its human-authorship certification mark
Policy
EU considers increasing broad corporate levy to collect more from tech giants
Products
Spotify plans audiobook expansion from 22 to more than 180 markets
AI
MemMux preprint reports memory controls for parallel coding agents
Robotics
MIT flight planner avoids moving obstacles in 12 UAV tests
AI
SchemaFill preprint reports up to 4.05× throughput for AI tool calls
AI
Scheduling planner improves integration of parallel coding agents in preprint
AI
OpenAI investigates Codex desktop thread failures for personal accounts
Security
ESP32-C3 ad blocker adds authentication for device changes
AI
SREGym reports Jev pipeline passed 76.2% of fault diagnoses
AI
OpenAI publishes 722 math manuscripts from an unreleased model
Security
WordPress plugin attacks install hidden administrator accounts and backdoors
AI
OpenAI offers Decisions API beta for classification and scoring
AI
Meta's Muse maps users' relationships and behavioral responses, TIME finds
AI
Sierra and Meta develop standard for agents accessing businesses
Security
Google says attackers hijacked domain records to obtain unauthorized TLS certificates
AI
Claude adds public beta for editing Google Workspace files
AI
Atlassian introduces Insights app to connect business data with work and agents
AI
Atlassian introduces AMP for agents working across its platform
Security
Datadog reports scan freshness above 99% after replacing remote host scanners
Infrastructure
PostgreSQL module adds limits on estimated query costs
Infrastructure
GitHub rebuilds Git storage and reports up to 35 times higher write throughput
Infrastructure
NVIDIA consolidates GPU networking across communication libraries
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IBM Thinkpad & Acquisition of RedHat, discussion on American dominance & open-source Chinese models
