Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
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Robotics
Path Robotics raises $300 million at $2.45 billion valuation
Security
Git releases fixes for six vulnerabilities, including recursive-clone code execution
AI
Ancep raises $8.5M to automate insurance brokers' administrative work
Capital
Dreeze emerges from stealth with $33M seed funding
AI
Google opens Gemini 4 Carbon to paying API users and Ultra subscribers
Capital
AstraZeneca acquires Omniose and its vaccine manufacturing platform
AI
PyTorch reports faster Muse Spark Open inference on four TPU v7 chips
AI
Atlassian says agents prepare fixes for 52% of vulnerabilities
AI
OpenAI opens beta hub for businesses to manage their presence in ChatGPT
AI
Google Cloud opens US preview of Gemini for healthcare
AI
Anthropic opens meeting, whiteboard and spreadsheet tools in beta
Products
Blender 5.3 adds project settings and expands video editing tools
AI
Apple opens advanced Siri integration to all developers in platform betas
AI
Adobe expands AI assistant betas across Creative Cloud apps
Robotics
Ring debuts flying home security drone with January shipping planned
AI
Google extends Gemini Intelligence to Pixel 10 devices and expands task automation
Policy
Microsoft opposes possible FCC restrictions on Chinese optical transceivers
AI
New York launches center to test AI systems and train safety experts
Policy
Investigation links Alice Huang to alleged diversion of 240,000 Nvidia chips
Products
Microsoft releases .NET 11 with C# unions and revised development tooling
Infrastructure
NVIDIA opens preview of tools for managed GPU Kubernetes services
AI
Hedra makes model training service available for physical AI
AI
Adobe makes Coworker agent available in GenStudio at no extra charge
AI
Adobe adds video object removal beta and releases Premiere generation tools
Infrastructure
AMD releases sixth-generation EPYC server processors
AI
Cursor adds Gemini 4 Carbon to its model selection
Products
Tele Columbus lenders near deal for around €350 million in new loans
Products
Windows 11 update adds remotely managed cloud recovery
Science
Researchers print interlocking blocks from lunar dust simulant without binders
Infrastructure
Google Fi begins restoring automatic switching between two mobile networks
Infrastructure
Tests find AMD's Zen 6c leads Zen 6 per clock in estimated SPEC results
Infrastructure
BRAC builds mobile solar irrigation vehicle, claiming lower pumping costs
Infrastructure
Tests put dual EPYC 9996 server 93% ahead of predecessor in integer throughput
Science
Hydrogen sensor detects 100 parts per million in hot, humid tests
Infrastructure
Verisign drops .name termination plan, domain holder says
AI
DeepMind reports AI-assisted formal verification of portions of Signal code
AI
Tests show Meta's Muse unable to retrieve eBay listings
Science
Chromium vacancies raise spin-wave frequency but increase energy loss
Security
NVIDIA contributes OpenShell agent security runtime to CNCF
Security
Blind Eagle campaign uses fake legal notices to deliver remote access malware
AI
Anthropic offers Fable 5.2 publicly while restricting Mythos 5.2 access
AI
Adobe adds editable plans and automatic model selection to Firefly agent
AI
DeepMind says Gemini Robotics 2.5 reached 96 percent success in factory tasks
AI
Reddit begins rollout of AI-organized product review pages
Products
Samsung broadens Google Photos backup in Gallery, replacing OneDrive integration
AI
Hedra offers custom model service for robotics, manufacturing and biology
Products
Meta issues glasses update to prevent moisture-related overheating
Policy
Salesforce says Missionforce recruiting gains defense marketplace eligibility
AI
Adobe previews access for outside agents to edit Creative Cloud projects
AI
OpenAI model requests fail on Replicate as Cloudflare implements fix
AI
AWS details Trovata's production deployment of treasury agents
Infrastructure
Ohio State and Microsoft announce five-year healthcare cloud partnership
AI
TCS says AI testing workflow cut engineer effort by 88 percent in internal benchmark
Products
IBM ends immigration sponsorship for most sponsored Consulting roles
Robotics
NVIDIA introduces downloadable Alpamayo 2 Edge driving model
AI
NVIDIA says Agent Substrate joins CNCF Sandbox for shared agent infrastructure
AI
NVIDIA introduces Snapshot to restore initialized GPU workloads
AI
TSMC plans investments of up to $500M each in Anthropic and OpenAI
AI
Fable 5.2 completes 41.3% of freelance projects in Remote Labor Index
Capital
Bay emerges from stealth with $50 million for AI agent security
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