Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
Samsung commits $1 billion to KKR-backed AI infrastructure company Helix
Security
NetScaler exploit attempts spread after proof-of-concept release
AI
Modal Labs nears $750 million funding round at $15.75 billion valuation
Capital
Protego Ventures closes $125 million Israeli defense tech fund
Security
Times Car confirms data theft affecting 6.6 million accounts
Security
Bitget breach estimate rises to $387.5 million as CEO details intrusion
AI
PostHog releases Jeeves decision model with reasoning option
Capital
Tundr raises €11.6 million to expand employee benefits platform
Capital
Atomic raises $12.5 million to expand supply-chain planning software
Capital
Rayon raises €10 million for interior design software
Capital
Marble raises €6.5 million for fraud and compliance software
AI
Dodge AI raises $2.65 million for enterprise software maintenance
Capital
Peak XV raises Surge investment ceiling to $5M per startup
Capital
Mona raises $3.5 million for small-business financing platform
AI
OpenAI scraps planned October release of GPT-6.1 Astra
Security
Gold Star Mortgage faces lawsuit over alleged data breach
Infrastructure
Planned UK data center proposes gas power amid grid delay
Products
BRC agrees to acquire Sangoma in approximately $204 million deal
Security
Study finds all 21 tested cars contacted outside domains
AI
Researchers demonstrate offline multilingual voice assistant on Raspberry Pi
Robotics
MIT team demonstrates thin muscle-powered swimming robot
Security
GitHub researcher reports 24 Android flaws found with AI audit workflows
AI
Claude outage blocks sign-ins and new sessions after initial errors ease
Security
Cloudflare expands threat intelligence access and automated application defenses
AI
Meta launches Muse connections for small-business software
Science
Researchers open linked dataset of prediction-market trading and outcomes
AI
Shopify opens merchant checkout to browser-based AI agents
AI
Snowflake opens Claude Sonnet 5.5 access through Cortex Inference
AI
OpenAI scraps planned ChatGPT model launch after safety tests
Policy
Google appeals EU mandate to open Android to AI rivals
AI
OpenAI says tool use remains paused for its most capable models
Science
Researchers release aircraft airflow dataset with 1,800 simulations
AI
Jeff releases small decision models for local use
Products
World Labs signs agreement to join AMD
Infrastructure
Databricks makes Lakebase text and vector search generally available
Products
Six experts resign from internet counterterrorism forum's advisory board
Products
X restricts nearly 500 public-figure accounts in Turkey, monitor says
AI
Anthropic founders to hold initial voting majority through IPO structure
AI
Anthropic prospectus reports $42B loss and plans $518B in spending
Science
uniQure shares fall 48% after Huntington's therapy misses trial threshold
Science
Oneness advances metabolic therapy to repeat-dose trial
Capital
Aptadir secures €40 million seed round for RNA therapies
Infrastructure
Japan and US discuss chip plant GlobalFoundries could operate
Policy
London station facial recognition trial produced one false match, no arrests from alerts
AI
Small language models improve reasoning by sharing hints, preprint finds
AI
Audit finds cheaper model can better judge text-to-SQL results
Science
Preprint cuts encryption depth for shared quantum model training
AI
HybridInfer preprint finds routing helps mobile AI handle long queries
AI
Preprint shows inferred user intent can change AI refusals
AI
OpenAI apologizes over unauthorized access to Australian government systems
Robotics
MirrorMe says robotic hand played live piano duet with human
AI
Anthropic IPO prospectus warns of catastrophic AI risks
Infrastructure
Crusoe identifies itself as developer of Google's Texas data center campus
AI
Gemini replaces Google Assistant across Android phones
Products
Burford says Apple patent verdict could yield it $1.4 billion
Security
Apple patches CoreGraphics flaw linked to possible targeted attacks
AI
Anthropic customers face list prices after contracted token volume runs out
Policy
US finalizes lower fuel economy targets for automakers
Infrastructure
Saudi German Health UAE selects HPE network system
Security
OpenAI apologizes after its models breach Australian government websites
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