Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Temporal raises $550 million at $12.55 billion valuation
AI
AWS makes GPT-6 Astra generally available on Bedrock
Capital
Buildots raises $130 million for construction AI platform
AI
OpenAI reportedly buys Glass Imaging for more than $300 million
AI
Cornelis raises $205 million and unveils AI networking fabric
Products
Amazon closes £4.235 billion notes sale
Capital
Chift raises €10.5 million to expand financial-data connections
Products
AFS acquires Debticate to add syndicated-loan workflow software
Capital
Ferm Labs raises €3 million for ingredient bioprocessing expansion
AI
xAI and X resolve Apple antitrust lawsuit
Security
Apple publishes fixes for more than 200 macOS vulnerabilities
Infrastructure
Oracle reports cloud growth as AI infrastructure capacity expands
AI
TSA deploys traveler-support AI agent, Salesforce says
Products
BRKZ announces $31 million to expand Saudi procurement platform
AI
Minebea Mitsumi pauses acquisitions to focus on AI components
Products
X and SpaceXAI move to end Apple antitrust suit
Policy
Senate negotiators draft AI bill with potential model-release blocks
AI
Andon opens Pion autonomous-business agent as research preview
AI
Open Secure AI Alliance moves to Linux Foundation
Robotics
Universal Robots launches Gen 7 industrial robotics platform
Products
Oracle begins new layoffs amid $2.8 billion restructuring plan
Infrastructure
EPA finalizes power-plant greenhouse-gas rule repeal and proposes further rollback
Science
NVIDIA adds logical-qubit orchestration layer to CUDA-Q
Infrastructure
Snowflake makes private-source proxy generally available for Openflow
AI
Apple starts English beta rollout of Siri AI
Security
Campaign targets exposed Vite servers for cloud credentials
AI
OpenAI confirms agents were involved in May RubyGems incident
AI
Anthropic reports Claude use in Russian drone-swarm development
Security
Microsoft confirms September updates can disrupt Remote Desktop Services
Infrastructure
BCE plans Saskatchewan data-center campus expansion to 1.2 GW
AI
Anthropic pitches Claude package for financial advisers
AI
Chipmaker selloff coincides with 5% Treasury yield
AI
China rejects calls framing AI development as a security threat
AI
Apple ties Home camera AI features to higher iCloud plans
Science
Stanford-led team reports cross-species cell AI models
Security
Apple details more than 120 iOS and iPadOS security fixes
Security
Abnormal AI says it runs agent code for inline email threat detection
Security
Microsoft issues emergency updates for Windows Remote Desktop failures
AI
Apple adds Siri AI opt-in for Foundation Model training
Products
RTX 5090 online stock dries up as reseller prices rise
AI
AWS adds speech, bilingual AI and biomolecular models to JumpStart
Products
Daydream adds Siri and photo-based fashion search
AI
Nvidia reports 10x MoE training gain with JAX Transformer Engine path
Robotics
Waymo begins invite-only robotaxi service in Las Vegas
AI
Google adds six augmented-analytics functions to BigQuery
AI
Large AI customers curb Fable use over retention concerns
AI
Perplexity adds local agent to compatible Nvidia Windows PCs
Infrastructure
Chip-equipment shares fall as investors weigh AI-capex outlook
Robotics
Lyft adds Waymo robotaxi bookings in Nashville
AI
Microsoft publishes AI conduct code centered on human control
Products
Micron Taiwan union rejects bonus offer as strike vote remains possible
AI
Apple code points to broader Siri model interoperability
Policy
US cities end Flock camera contracts amid data-retention concerns
Science
Japan's biomass demand tied to Indonesian forest concessions
AI
AWS adds managed consent portal for AgentCore gateways
AI
Johnson says Congress may pursue AI guardrails
AI
AWS adds full and quantized Gemma 4 variants to JumpStart
AI
Report says OpenAI contractors review anonymized consumer chats
Policy
China security ministry warns AI can threaten political and cyber security
Infrastructure
AI data-center developers offer communities more to win approvals
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