Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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AI
UK commits £100m to AI biosecurity lab
Products
Fintel buys Mortgage Brain for £38.4m, expanding mortgage software business
AI
Dream Labs announces $90M seed funding and public robot-control API
AI
OpenAI lowers funding valuation target to $1.25tn
Security
Unit 42 reports PHP2Shell breach at European government entity
AI
UK commits £100 million to planned AI biosecurity laboratory
Capital
Baba raises $40 million Series A led by FirstMark
Capital
CapitalOS raises $21.9 million Series A for embedded financial tools
Infrastructure
Ember agrees to buy subsea technology supplier Ashtead for approximately £505 million
Security
Keystone discloses breach exposing wallet buyers' addresses and purchase details
Capital
AI film studio Utopai raises $60M at $1B valuation
Security
Researchers demonstrate coding-agent attacks through downloaded instruction files
Products
LSEG agrees to buy credit data provider Octus for $3.54B
Science
Researchers demonstrate single-positron trap with motion and spin readout
AI
Claude deploys fix for errors affecting multiple models and services
AI
Anthropic opens US waitlist for Claude Duet background assistant
Infrastructure
Musk says SpaceX closed $40B in debt for GPUs
AI
Databricks benchmark finds early pipeline checks reduce wasted compute
Security
Python security releases block compromised eMudhra certificate keys
Infrastructure
Texas suspends 17 data center permits and disables automatic approvals
Products
Vercel adds CLI budget controls with optional production pauses
AI
JPMorgan private bank uses AI for client onboarding and investment research
Science
Lumina simulation combines galaxy formation and radiation across larger cosmic volume
AI
ALTO recipe narrows four-bit model training gap in simulated tests
Infrastructure
Malaysia's prime minister says Son selected sites for $50 billion technology investment
Security
CISA adds PHP2Shell detection rule and urges unpatched systems offline
Security
Wiz reports GitHub token campaign stealing secrets from private repositories
Science
European storms cut power to more than 150,000 homes and disrupt mobile service
Security
Keystone customers question data deletion after store breach
Security
Researcher reports Tailscale SSH flaws that could expose reachable servers to root access
Policy
Court orders Meta not to interfere in Brazil's runoff
Policy
NHTSA proposes autonomous-vehicle lighting standards and control changes
Infrastructure
Drone strike reportedly damages Russian finance ministry data center
Security
Node.js and Python Brotli fixes address potential remote code execution
Products
Optical-drive supply losses halt PS Audio and Naim player production
AI
OpenAI says agents built a covert CPU cache channel across isolated environments
Security
Researcher alleges Samsung TV software collects audio and screenshots for ad targeting
Robotics
BeetleBot combines artificial muscles and finger control to move objects
AI
OpenAI says frontier training runs now use an offline web environment
Robotics
Underwater robot maneuvers in three dimensions with two actuators
Infrastructure
DreamHost completes precautionary password resets after service incident
AI
Claude bypassed paywall for Georgia vote counts during internal training
Policy
Proton hosts Flock camera map worldwide amid legal threats
Security
PHP flaws draw millions of attack attempts, with no successful exploitation seen
Products
Arc browser will become unusable by Christmas
Science
Merck and Moderna report 42 percent lower recurrence-or-death risk in melanoma trial
Infrastructure
Video shows Chinese workshops converting RTX 5090 cards for servers
Security
GMO seeks Japanese state cyber intervention after trading-server breach
Products
Linux module targets higher AI computation rates on Nvidia RTX 3000 cards
Infrastructure
Data center tenants seek $5M-plus daily fees for delivery delays
Robotics
BAE tests quadcopter that engages multiple targets without reloading
AI
Moonshot says training restrictions reduce Kimi K3.1 Pro's hacking performance
AI
Moonshot introduces Kimi K3.1 Pro across apps and API
Capital
Carta and NewView partner to help startups arrange employee share sales
Infrastructure
Ukraine says Starshield service returned to normal
Products
Axios creates business selling news feeds for company AI systems
Infrastructure
S&P warns local opposition adds to US data center credit risk
Infrastructure
Jassy says AWS capacity for 2027 is largely sold out
AI
Amazon Bedrock adds domain and location controls to web search
AI
Vercel aligns agent permission checks with its token service
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