Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Endeavor Catalyst closes $320 million fund for its founder network
Capital
Nous Research raises $90 million for enterprise agent push
AI
Manus parent says it raised more than $500 million
AI
Broadcom seeks more than $50B in financing for OpenAI chip
AI
Isomorphic Labs seeks funding at valuation of at least $40 billion
Capital
Navra raises $19 million for access to blockchain financial markets
Capital
Healthleap raises $38 million for hospital patient screening AI
Robotics
Mecka raises $60M Series B led by Sequoia
Security
Live Nation faces three class actions over customer data breach
Capital
Keyu Tian raises approximately $30M for world-model AI lab
Security
EY breach notifications identify Goldman Sachs clients and Man Group as victims
Science
Teams in Vienna and Beijing build thorium nuclear clock prototypes
Security
IDCF Cloud ransomware attack disrupts companies and local governments
Security
AWS releases instructions for evidence-based AI vulnerability triage
AI
Engineers demonstrate slow car control with GPT-6 Astra
AI
Anthropic releases Haiku 5.5 and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices
Robotics
HuMBLE preprint demonstrates human-style steering on three humanoid robots
Robotics
Preprint demonstrates energy-focused gait control on a physical quadruped
AI
Heathrow expands Adobe partnership to rebuild website and track AI search visibility
Products
Databricks makes user-scoped app authorization generally available
AI
Ledger preprint improves spatial recall from first-person video
AI
Meta expands Muse to iPad and adds business software connections
Policy
US Defense Department pledges conditional Wolfspeed loan of up to $1.5 billion
Security
Compromised Tensorlake npm release spreads credential-stealing worm
Products
Zerobrew reports faster package installs in development-release benchmark
Infrastructure
Google Cloud makes U4 trading infrastructure generally available
Security
Unpatched LMCache flaw exposes network-accessible cache servers to code execution
AI
Atlassian makes Strategy Collection connections to AI tools generally available
Products
Malaysia's SQ Advanced Interconnect considers $73 million IPO
AI
Cursor adds Haiku 5.5 with claimed savings on shorter requests
AI
Microsoft releases Agent Lightning rebuild for training existing agent systems
Products
Samsung reports nearly nine-fold increase in quarterly operating profit
Security
Cloudflare opens early beta of AI-assisted security investigations
Policy
Taiwan indicts 10 over alleged diversion of restricted US chips to China
Security
Empire Market co-creator sentenced to 40 years in prison
Policy
Australia considers mandatory risk management for AI companies
Science
Preprint finds sensitive-topic leakage in AI model routing logs
Infrastructure
HPE announces ProLiant Gen 13 servers with 256-core AMD processors
Science
PermaC says insulating blanket halted erosion in first permafrost test
Products
Sui test records 40,614,180 transactions per second through off-chain channels
Science
Atom Computing says DARPA selected it for final quantum benchmarking stage
Science
IBM says DARPA selected its quantum program for hardware testing
Security
Registry breaches let attackers hijack domains and obtain HTTPS certificates
Products
Microsoft prices Surface AI PCs and announces Windows agent containers
AI
OpenAI rolls GPT-6 and interactive responses into ChatGPT
Policy
Snowflake completes New Zealand Restricted security assessment on AWS
Robotics
RoboJEPA preprint reports goal-image planning on real robots
Robotics
D.C. proposal would cap robotaxi operators at 200 vehicles each
Infrastructure
Meta's CRAM prototype reports faster compressed-memory reads than ZRAM
Security
Outlook will block Windows installer attachments by default
Products
Apple and LG reportedly co-develop LG-branded smart home devices
Security
Researchers identify more than 3400 servers hit by PoeLLM mining malware
AI
Musk says Grok Bot will use rival AI models
Infrastructure
Meta and OpenAI join applicants seeking .agent domain
Infrastructure
SemiAnalysis estimates China's operational compute capacity at 24 GW
Policy
FCC seeks comment on waiver for unsolicited political calls to cellphones
Robotics
Nvidia reports robot tray assembly above 95% success, short of factory targets
Security
GitHub rolls out new secret detector and previews checks before code uploads
Infrastructure
Nvidia details multi-GPU cuOpt solver with lower memory requirements
AI
Cornerstone reports cutting database diagnosis from 45 minutes to 10 with AI
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Essays & analysis
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IBM Thinkpad & Acquisition of RedHat, discussion on American dominance & open-source Chinese models
