Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Modal raises $750 million at $15.75 billion valuation
Security
Microsoft and partners disrupt three phishing kits in court-authorized operation
Capital
Labelbox raises more than $100 million in Series E financing
Capital
Workplace messenger Zenzap raises $44M
Security
Microsoft says it disabled 20,000-plus accounts tied to phishing marketplace
Security
Cisco patches exploited email gateway flaw allowing root access
Products
Figma opens code layers beta and begins Specs and Payload rollouts
Science
Illinois researchers demonstrate multiphoton memory on a telecom chip platform
AI
Study finds AI models solve about 35 percent of tested theory problems
Science
AI-designed enzymes demonstrate targeted protein cutting
Science
Robot training preprint reports 91% success by reweighting imperfect demonstrations
Infrastructure
Swedish industrial consortium launches shared supercomputer with 1,152 GPUs
Science
Preprint finds open-weight security agents match closed models at lower cost
Infrastructure
CedarDB opens limited access to managed cloud database
AI
TypeSafe opens experimental image and longer-context access for Jev
Security
Cloudflare finds malicious bots moved hosts during Yandex outage
AI
Claude Platform opens agent tracing export in public beta
AI
Bloomberg expands ASKB AI interface to all Terminal users
AI
Databricks opens predictive analytics functions in beta
Capital
Anduril reportedly opens employee share tender at approximately $90B valuation
Security
Ledger broadens Asian wallet sales halt after hardware tampering
AI
OpenAI agrees to stop using alleged Apple trade secrets during lawsuit
AI
Eight states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT safety and minors' data
AI
OpenRouter adds AssemblyAI Universal-3.6 Pro at $0.30 per hour
AI
Databricks makes document parsing and extraction REST APIs generally available
AI
Anthropic reportedly tells investors quarterly revenue reached $16.8 billion
Policy
Senate Democrats question Meta over tax breaks for data centers
AI
Nvidia's Huang says unsafe AI could trigger chip supply cutoff
AI
Shanghai AI lab reports AI-assisted proof of three-dimensional Ghys conjecture
AI
Preprint reports benchmark gains from agents revising their execution workflows
Science
Preprint reports fewer AI agent violations with live monitoring and revocation
AI
Preprint reports simpler AI support workflow system with slower responses
Security
Capsem offers virtual-machine isolation and network inspection for coding agents
AI
General Dynamics plans offline voice controls for combat vehicles
Products
Jio sets IPO price band for up to 270 million new shares
AI
Colossal says new AI platform identified approximately 2,300 dodo editing targets
AI
OpenCode 2.0 adds shared local service and background agents
Science
Riverlane reports GPU cuts quantum calibration cycle to 2.8 seconds
AI
Apple plans December AI rollout in China with restricted features
Policy
DHS audit finds gaps in TSA oversight of passenger data access
Capital
TimeTeller plans broader insurer access to circadian rhythm test
Security
US charges facilitators of North Korean remote IT worker schemes
Products
Google Home adds automatic local Matter control for Hue bridges
Infrastructure
Bulgaria adds security at Starlink facilities after suspected sabotage
AI
Anthropic adds detection tools for coordinated election misuse of Claude
Infrastructure
Banks explore transferring risk from AI data center loans
AI
YouTube Music begins labeling tracks made primarily with AI
Infrastructure
Oxide describes running unmodified rack software on a mini-PC
AI
SafeDriveVLA preprint reports fewer collisions under unsafe driving instructions
Robotics
Researchers generate humanoid control networks that perform real-world motions
Robotics
Humanoid robots sustain alternating table tennis strikes in doubles study
Robotics
KinoGen turns generated video into motion references for a humanoid robot
Security
Collabora warns disabling vulnerable Nextcloud app does not stop attacks
AI
Apple confirms original HomePod mini will not receive Siri AI
AI
Kyndryl and Toyota Systems plan AI agents for Toyota Finance IT operations
Robotics
Whisker sensors let experimental drone navigate in complete darkness
Policy
EFF and ACLU seek warrants for Wisconsin plate-reader searches
Infrastructure
AWS adds conditional routing and sequential parsing to CloudWatch pipelines
Infrastructure
AWS brings S3 provisioning to Vercel Marketplace and v0
Products
GitHub adds aggregate star history API after restricting user lists
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Essays & analysis
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Clips
Contango: A common scenario in futures markets.
An Introduction to Duration: a key fixed income concept
The Opening to the Statement Piece
IBM Thinkpad & Acquisition of RedHat, discussion on American dominance & open-source Chinese models
