Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Re:Build raises $2.1 billion to expand manufacturing capacity
Robotics
Student's jet-powered drone reportedly reaches 491 mph carrying payload
AI
Lumaril raises $66 million for industrial AI software
Security
VicOne reports 28 zero-day findings in software supporting robotics
Robotics
San Bernardino acquires five autonomous firefighting drones
Policy
China-Peru trade agreement expands rules covering e-commerce
Policy
French regulator fines Fnac Darty €7 million over app tracking without consent
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Security
Android exploit release exposes unpatched phones to text-triggered crashes
AI
Baseten reportedly plans about $2bn raise at valuation up to $30bn
AI
USB boot tool expands Windows access to GeForce tensor performance unlock
AI
GARDEN preprint demonstrates reusable AI-designed rewards for cooperating agents
Infrastructure
Intel redirects planned PC chip capacity toward Xeon production
Products
Binance seeks licensed return to Malaysia through regulatory talks
Robotics
Neura opens Munich facility to train up to 100 humanoid robots
Security
Canonical releases fixes for LXD and MicroCloud client impersonation flaw
AI
Brazilian court fines lawyers over hidden instructions aimed at its AI
Science
Security benchmark finds combined static and AI reviews catch 101 of 108 flaws
Infrastructure
Judge rejects xAI bid to dismiss turbine pollution lawsuit
Policy
California Prop 45 would accelerate infrastructure reviews and limit court intervention
Products
Anycubic secures Thingiverse partnership for multicolor printing files
Products
Affle signs approximately $420 million cash deal for Perion
Science
Air Force reports successful space cargo capsule test in Pacific
AI
Harvard smartphone navigation app reduces collisions in 14-person test
Security
NetamLoader disclosure exposes attack on government Windows systems in Asia
AI
ChatGPT and Codex to share paid-plan usage limits in December
AI
Memdoor reports 49 successful coding runs in small multi-agent test
Products
Five tech giants cut buybacks 83% as capital spending exceeds operating cash flow
Products
Renesas reports ¥435,917m quarterly revenue as margin guidance softens
Robotics
Meta reportedly builds humanoid prototype with Fourier
Security
DOJ charges five in alleged AI-assisted student aid fraud
Science
Bacterial fuel cell achieves 8.3-fold power-density gain over flat design
Products
Reddit plans login requirements to restrict scraping and personalize access
AI
Darkbloom warns Mac compute operators of falling inference revenue
Infrastructure
Jepsen finds 96 issues across tested ParticleDB versions
AI
Developers report Claude refusals on game development and reverse engineering
Security
Volta malware adds AI analysis to profile victims and prioritize targets
AI
Exin founder reports AI-controlled brain injection in a live mouse
Science
P2P preprint reports survey-response reconstruction at approximately $0.8 per survey
Science
WorldFlow preprint reports lower errors in predicting 3D motion
AI
GAAC preprint reports lossless cache compression and higher inference throughput
AI
Preprint finds hiding system labels improves AI judges of entity matches
AI
AgentNorm preprint reports better vehicle perception when collaborators' cameras degrade
AI
AgenticDS preprint reports better training-data search and downstream accuracy
AI
KARMA preprint reports advertising-agent gains without model retraining
Science
Preprint reports up to 32% decode energy savings from GPU clock control
AI
Rubricon preprint reports gains from automatically generated scoring criteria
Science
Preprint finds longer agent tasks can reverse smaller models' energy advantage
Science
Value Probes preprint reports roughly 50% higher peak AI audit scores
AI
Preprint finds agent improvement tests can strip away redundant safeguards
Infrastructure
Hermantown grants Google data center its last major local approvals
Science
Quantum drug-design preprint reports comparable performance with 110 generator parameters
AI
SCOPE preprint reports higher agent success with fewer training interactions
Science
ForeCritic preprint reports 4.4-7.5 times shorter ML agent task times
Products
Debt-default insurance costs for five hyperscalers reach highest level since 2021
Security
Binance plans phased withdrawal restart after hack
Capital
NeuroXess raises RMB 700 million for brain-computer interfaces
Security
FBI attributes Binance theft of more than $6 billion to North Korean hackers
AI
Tests find chatbots citing error-prone voter information site
Security
ChatGPT share-link flaw could run attacker code in logged-in sessions
Infrastructure
CoreWeave, Nebius and Nscale reportedly lose effective bond market access
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