Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Accenture and Anthropic reportedly commit $2 billion to AI safety partnership
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Ransomware attack halts trading on Nepal Stock Exchange
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Gyazo breach exposed metadata for 490 million images
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Draft EU Kids Act would impose age-based access rules across online services
AI
Tech groups use residual-value guarantees to lower AI financing costs
Capital
Novadip raises €10.4 million to complete pivotal bone-graft trial
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Project Ventures launches €5.8 million fund for Imperial-linked deep-tech startups
AI
Metris Energy raises €4.35 million and launches renewable-asset AI interface
AI
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse and expands lawsuit against Perplexity
Capital
Searchable acquires Meridian in seven-figure AI-search deal
AI
CheatBench finds every tested AI agent exploited shortcuts
Policy
Eurosystem launches central-bank settlement service for tokenized assets
Capital
xFarm buys Sibium Analytics, adding 8 million monitored hectares
Policy
OpenAI proposes U.S.-led global standards for frontier AI research
Policy
Ireland fines Google €403 million over location-data processing
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Motherson agrees to buy control of Rotary Connectors at ₹500.4 crore value
Security
Benchling deploys isolated AI code execution across 250 life-sciences tenants
Infrastructure
Meta open-sources Rebalancer resource-allocation software
AI
Google opens $899 Googlebook preorders ahead of October release
Policy
SEC clears trading of tokenized securities in the U.S. as Bitcoin rebounds
Products
Paramount settles state challenge to $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery deal
AI
xAI releases Grok 4.7 through its API and developer platforms
Policy
White House reportedly drafts NIH grant veto power for OMB chief
AI
Positron IDE becomes available in Amazon SageMaker AI
Security
Google Cloud adds generally available access controls to Secure Source Manager
Science
Beacon gene therapy meets U.S. endpoint in pivotal vision trial
AI
Microsoft releases RetroChimera model for planning chemical synthesis
AI
Huawei limits next-generation Ascend AI chips to China
Policy
EU proposes energy and water ratings for large data centers
Infrastructure
Cloudflare makes Python Workers generally available
AI
OpenAI projects $278 billion in cumulative cash burn through 2030
Infrastructure
Meta plans 1-petabit transatlantic cable using dual-core fiber
Robotics
China reportedly holds back humanoid-robot listings over revenue concerns
Policy
Fed and Bank of England reportedly examine banks' exposure to large trading firms
AI
EXL deploys AI pipeline to accelerate medical-claims review
Policy
California enacts seven bills governing data-center costs, water and local oversight
AI
Former xAI staffer seeks roughly $50 million for deepfake startup
AI
Amazon blocks Meta's Muse shopping agent from Amazon.com
Robotics
Pentagon selects nine startups to split orders for 60,000 drones
Policy
Proposed South African exchange controls stall cryptocurrency deals
Science
Biodegradable paper battery powers ingestible devices for three days in pigs
AI
Nvidia starts qualification program for AI data-center power and cooling
Science
Three-user quantum-key experiment withstands 59.6 dB system loss
AI
Google tests global GKE inference routing across 17,000 nodes
Products
AMD crosses $1 trillion in market value for the first time
Capital
NATO innovation program names first 24 investors to capital network
Security
Microsoft sets February 2027 retirement for Entra SMS sign-in
AI
M5 Ultra Mac Studio testing shows faster local AI agent workloads
Infrastructure
Arm joins European chip-design platform as its first commercial IP provider
AI
AbbVie partners with Iambic on AI-assisted drug discovery
Security
September Windows updates can stop File History backups
AI
EssilorLuxottica and SAP test smart glasses linked to retail systems
Security
ZuckOff app detects nearby camera glasses through Bluetooth signals
AI
UN scientific panel urges precautionary safeguards for advanced AI agents
Policy
ECB prepares to invest part of own funds in tokenized securities
AI
US proposes AI incident notification channel with China
Science
Raman method identifies senescent cells without destroying them
Security
ChainScript malware uses Polygon contract to rotate control servers
Infrastructure
BMW automates daily cost-anomaly checks across 14,000 cloud accounts
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South Korea reopens military-service research route for AI talent
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