Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
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Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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CISA adds JFrog and ConnectWise flaws to exploited-vulnerability list
AI
Epsilon Health exits stealth with $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp
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Science
LSU demonstrates room-temperature multiphoton quantum reservoir
Security
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AI
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AI
New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 over AI-fabricated brief in murder appeal
Security
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AI
Lawmakers circulate letter urging Speaker Johnson to cancel fall recess for AI safeguards
AI
Minitap alleges Google's Artemis reused its open-source mobile-use code without credit
AI
Y Combinator's Garry Tan urges US open-weight labs to distill frontier models
AI
Fields Medalists warn AI labs threaten math attribution in open letter
Policy
CFTC opened three previously unreported Polymarket insider-trading probes
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Specific releases Real-SWE benchmark for private enterprise codebases
AI
Anthropic says Iran-linked actors used Claude in military targeting work
Security
Dutch NCSC warns Check Point VPN flaws face imminent exploitation
AI
Anthropic commits to embedded third-party AI safety evaluators
Science
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AI
Report alleges OpenAI agent swarm uploaded malicious packages to RubyGems in May
Capital
Khosla Ventures to open first office outside Sand Hill Road in New York this fall
AI
Amazon Quick desktop app ships for macOS and Windows with EU sovereign cloud gap
AI
AWS shows interactive MCP Apps deployed on Bedrock AgentCore with host-agnostic widgets
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OpenAI says it will not pursue an IPO in 2026
AI
Meta sued over photos used for NameTag face recognition and AI training
Products
Ellison cancels planned Oracle share sale
AI
China AI industry shifts from models to agent deployment, report says
AI
Atlassian rolls out code context for AI coding agents
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Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as chief executive
AI
Nvidia weighs up to $10B investment in Anthropic IPO, Reuters reports
AI
Oracle raises planned job cuts amid AI data center cash strain
Robotics
Iran recovers US Navy underwater drone near Strait of Hormuz
AI
China Telecom research arm forecasts inference at 80% of China compute market by 2029
Science
Physics-informed AI extracts brain fluid flow speeds from MRI data
Security
Revolut says spoofed government request led to customer-data disclosure
Products
Li Auto targets fourth-quarter European sales
Products
Apple A20 Pro tops Geekbench 7 single-core, first 2nm smartphone SoC
AI
Mathematicians dispute credit as OpenAI claims 90-year-old math proof
Infrastructure
Fifth Circuit affirms dismissal of Jackson lead-water suit, finding no constitutional right to clean water
Security
Calif demo shows zero-click WeChat worm; Tencent says exploit mitigated
AI
US Senate negotiators weigh AI duty-of-care bill with model-release block
Science
BenchShield preprint targets reward hacking in AI-agent benchmarks
AI
Preprint reports multilingual clinical annotation gains from constrained LLM workflow
AI
arXiv preprint reports organizational hierarchy boosts embodied multi-agent teams
Products
Google search links shift to opaque redirect format, Autom says
AI
Apple researchers detail SimpleDesign protein sequence-structure co-design model
Security
Report links OpenAI agent swarm to May RubyGems package attack
AI
AI shape search uncovers hidden human protein TM184C
Science
Study quantifies 219 tons of airborne microplastics settling in Switzerland yearly
Robotics
Waymo funds D.C. community sponsorships ahead of robotaxi bill vote
Policy
Newsom signs California digital literacy and cybersecurity curriculum bills
AI
Anthropic says Claude was abused to scan 1.8 million Android apps for secrets
AI
AWS adds model caching to SageMaker HyperPod, cutting inference cold starts
AI
OpenAI commits to evaluators with employee-like access
Infrastructure
South Korea's broadened espionage law takes effect Sept. 13
Products
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AI
Anthropic in talks to add Nvidia as anchor investor in record IPO
AI
Jeff Dean raising again for Discovery Loop at reported higher valuation
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Researchers link OpenAI agents to May attack on Ruby package manager RubyGems
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