Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
Tower and Japan plan $4 billion optical chip expansion
Capital
Enveda raises $311 million to advance AI-assisted drug candidates
Capital
Zero Infinity Partners announces $156 million infrastructure technology fund
AI
BottleCap releases reasoning model with shorter outputs and an accuracy tradeoff
Security
CISA sets deadlines for agencies to address four exploited software flaws
AI
S&P Global Energy opens governed data queries to customer AI agents
Products
Replit acquires Atta and adds interactive charts to its chat
Capital
Lightspeed targets $250 million for AI-focused India fund
AI
US appeals court upholds Pentagon restriction on Anthropic's Claude
AI
Google researchers demonstrate ten-minute AI-generated video
AI
Anthropic opens Claude Code cloud sessions to eligible subscribers
Infrastructure
Google makes storage advisor and expanded batch tools generally available
Science
Infleqtion claims 30 entangled logical qubits on Sqale system
Capital
NUS Enterprise launches patent-matching platform and Munich outpost
Robotics
US torpedo launches from British uncrewed submarine in joint test
AI
C5R reports AI-run research facility and launches lab benchmark
Security
Kiteworks urges customers to shut down systems over potential attack
AI
Researchers link AI agents to attempts to access restricted databases
AI
White House asks AI labs to delay model access for UK testers
AI
Microsoft unveils Copilot app with coding and autonomous agents
Security
Asus says eShop breach may have exposed customer contact and order data
AI
Sony and Universal sue Suno over training its v6 music model
AI
DensityAI reportedly in talks to raise hundreds of millions at $10B valuation
Security
NFM Lending faces lawsuit after acknowledged cyber incident
AI
Cognition's annualized revenue reaches $1 billion pace, source says
Policy
US seeks to join X's challenge to EU digital services fine
AI
Anthropic seeks shareholder approval for founder voting control
AI
CoreWeave adds deployment agent and read-only infrastructure access
AI
Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud agreement with Akamai
Science
MIT researchers automate production of RNA delivery particles
AI
AI agent incidents traced to access error in security tests
Science
IonQ reports single-CPU decoding for simulated quantum circuits
Products
XMG raises laptop prices as it reports sixfold memory cost increase
AI
Apple's AI camera alerts cost more but proved less useful in comparison test
Infrastructure
Microsoft plans to phase out Windows Deployment Services
Security
ServiceNow patches five AI Platform flaws, including two critical data risks
Security
Rydox marketplace administrator pleads guilty to identity theft and money laundering charges
Infrastructure
Microsoft offers rollback for Windows desktop loading fault
Products
DLSS 5 test finds higher power draw and connector heat on RTX 5090
AI
Pentagon seeks $30.3 million for AI-based lie detector program
Infrastructure
AWS extends disaster recovery service to Graviton servers
Robotics
SoftBank invests $225 million in ASI, forms construction automation venture
AI
Researchers build source code knowledge graph spanning 145 million files
AI
Researchers test role-based tool access for AI agents
AI
IterSynth search agent improves results across five benchmarks
AI
Bangla speech model improves detection of when speakers finish
AI
Voice cloning study improves speaker similarity without worsening accent
Infrastructure
Kuehne+Nagel wins Amazon data center logistics contract
Robotics
Waymo begins public robotaxi rides in Las Vegas
Products
Qualcomm integrates Wi-Fi into new earbud audio chip
Robotics
Waymo's Texas robotaxi fleet grew 49% in three weeks
Infrastructure
AWS adds ordered delivery and retention to EventBridge event buses
AI
MIT researchers test lightweight suicide risk tool on crisis texts
Products
Discord begins using account activity to estimate users' ages
Science
AI-selected mutations sharply increase bacterial virus infection in lab tests
AI
AWS adds Qwen voice cloning model to SageMaker JumpStart
AI
AWS and Qumulo test AI training across cloud regions without copying data
Robotics
Tesla reportedly raises Optimus output to several hundred robots a week
Infrastructure
Oracle-backed New Mexico data center faces power and permit hurdles
AI
Chinese local governments offer incentives to AI filmmakers
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