Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
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Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
Google plans $15B Malaysian data center and cloud investment
Capital
Sequoia raises approximately $10B and closes Arc and Scouts programs
Capital
Pliant raises $80M for expansion and AI payment workflows
Capital
Kabilio raises €10M to develop AI agents for accounting firms
Capital
Phaze raises $8.75M for remote computers shared by workers and AI agents
Robotics
Aformic raises $6.95M to expand industrial robotics
AI
Isomorphic Labs seeks roughly $5 billion in funding talks
Science
Preprint links restricted AI access to increased vulnerability disclosures
Infrastructure
Microsoft declines option to expand Nscale Texas data center contract
Science
Infleqtion says it demonstrated 30 logical qubits using 80 physical qubits
AI
Meta buys coding-agent startup Conductor
Security
IonQ agrees to acquire Elisity for quantum security platform
Capital
AI chip startup Tenspresso seeks financing at $500 million valuation
AI
Goldman and Apollo discuss selling portions of SpaceX chip financing
Security
Palo Alto Networks in talks to buy Clutch Security for around $500 million
Products
Apple opens subscription offers inside its cancellation process
Products
Amplitude revenue rises 25% as enterprise customer count grows
Products
Qualcomm gives subdued quarterly profit forecast as component costs rise
Security
Binance traces theft to engineer compromised in fake job interview
Products
Figma revenue rises 43% as gross margin misses estimates
AI
Figma opens code layers beta to all users
Policy
Democrats secure congressional majorities, gaining future control of science oversight
Infrastructure
AWS expands DocumentDB availability to Taipei and New Zealand
AI
Ricursive releases Ripple-65B Preview with up to 1M context
Robotics
China tells SoftBank it will block $5.4B ABB robotics deal
Infrastructure
SpaceX signs Qualcomm hardware deal for planned U.S. wireless network
Security
Security researchers report rentable proxy access through White House network
Science
FuseAMC preprint reports better radio signal classification on one CPU core
AI
OpenAI rolls out GIF generation across ChatGPT and Codex
Security
Android security update fixes flaw allowing remote code execution without interaction
Products
Smartphone chip shipments fall 21% as Apple and Samsung gain share
Science
Researchers fabricate quantum circuit superinductor using commercial CMOS process
AI
OpenAI identifies message errors affecting paid ChatGPT users
Robotics
Hopcopter prototype gains flexible foot for more consistent landings
AI
DevRev integrates GPT-6.1 Sol for automated enterprise IT tasks
Products
VMware introduces vSphere Express for installations of up to 128 cores
Security
Vercel rolls out device-bound protection for developer logins
Products
Coherent reports 56% pro forma revenue growth in fiscal first quarter
AI
Apple makes Siri AI waitlist conditional on high demand
AI
AT&T adds Gemini video search to Connected Life monitoring
AI
Apple plans further cuts to employees' daily AI budgets
Products
Trimble cuts recurring revenue growth outlook despite higher quarterly sales
Products
Wayfair returns to quarterly profit as orders increase 12.2%
AI
TGen study uses AlphaFold 3 to predict immune recognition from sequences
Security
DreamHost discloses stolen FTP credentials and possible webmail exposure
Science
Self-powered toothbrush reduces plaque in trial with 115 adults
Robotics
Robot planning preprint reports 34.6% shorter pick-and-drop cycles
Robotics
Preprint finds robot policies can improve across tasks during deployment
Products
Apple plans content checks for publicly linked iCloud items
AI
OpenAI rolls out Images 2.6 and native GIF creation in ChatGPT
Robotics
MIT robot memory system corrects uncertain object descriptions in real time
Security
OpenAI says cyber model pipeline validated and patched 948 Linux flaws
Infrastructure
Spark 4.3 adds stateful processing to Real-Time Mode
Products
Data center stocks slide on expectations of slower AI construction
AI
Nvidia details AI agents operating across its production GPU clusters
Infrastructure
AWS adds file-based log collection to ECS Managed Instances
Products
Snap says subscriptions pass 30 million across four offerings
Products
Vercel Workflow SDK adds atomic starts to prevent duplicate runs
AI
Nvidia CUDA 13.5 moves Vera Rubin support to general availability
Infrastructure
NASA awards three contracts to develop commercial satellite relay services
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