Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Mach Industries raises $600M to expand autonomous aircraft manufacturing
AI
Microsoft plans 38 GW of data center capacity after turning away AI and cloud business
Infrastructure
Humain reported to raise $2.5 billion for Saudi AI data centers
Security
Cloudflare rolls out early access to AI-driven vulnerability remediation
Capital
Furo raises $4 million and signs Deutsche Bahn for industrial battery storage software
Infrastructure
Blackstone's AirTrunk in talks for S$2B loan to fund Singapore REIT listing
AI
Anthropic makes Fable 5.1 available through Claude for Government
Infrastructure
Google commits €13bn to Finland AI infrastructure and nuclear power contract
Policy
EU Cyber Resilience Act vulnerability reporting obligations take effect
Policy
Judge stays order requiring 14 US agencies to give Apple antitrust documents
Infrastructure
Pennsylvania PUC directs staff to draft updated emergency load-control rules for data center growth
Security
Chrome 153 fixes actively exploited V8 flaw
Policy
Judge pauses order requiring DOJ to answer Apple discovery requests from 14 agencies
Products
AMD launches $99 Ryzen 5 5500F and $189 Ryzen 5 7500 for budget PC builders
Robotics
Boston Dynamics ships Spot and Orbit 5.2 with agentic task routing
Robotics
XPeng says IRON humanoid robot has entered production phase
Policy
NASA opens state bidding for U.S. Space Academy with 2027 groundbreaking target
AI
AWS makes SageMaker HyperPod model caching generally available
Infrastructure
1NCE launches benchmarking and unified AI access for IoT customers
AI
Google Cloud ships developer plugin bundling agent skills and MCP server
AI
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with Morgan Stanley, Evercore as design partners
Infrastructure
Google reported to back Finnish AI sites with long-term nuclear power deal
Science
Thea Energy releases peer-reviewed Helios fusion plant design papers
AI
Altman reportedly tells OpenAI staff company weighing slower frontier AI development
Policy
South Korea tightens industrial espionage law to shield chip secrets
Policy
SEC charges New Jersey founder over alleged $16M Ponzi scheme
AI
d-Matrix to integrate inference XPUs with Nvidia GPUs via NVLink Fusion
Products
Oracle files 8-K on fiscal first-quarter results and declares dividends
AI
OpenAI asks Congress whether an industry-wide AI slowdown would be legal
AI
Slack adds AI-built interactive reports and dashboards inside chats
AI
Anthropic researcher's AI extinction warning draws lab backing and Pentagon rejection
AI
Anthropic report details Claude misuse across cyber, surveillance and weapons cases
AI
Anthropic alleges five distillation campaigns, including Alibaba and Moonshot
Products
Judge dismisses LinkedIn browser-extension scanning lawsuits
Security
September Windows Server patches disrupt Remote Desktop Services
Products
Amazon API Gateway raises execution log limit to 1 MB with configurable destinations
Infrastructure
AWS extends Lambda recursive loop detection to Europe Sovereign Cloud
Products
AWS Transform for .NET adds automatic unit test generation for modernized code
AI
Meta's Muse agent reaches No. 2 on US App Store with 83,000 iOS downloads
Capital
TAR raises Series A led by Spark Capital to build off-grid power for AI data centers
Policy
California enacts social media restriction for minors as EFF warns of privacy costs
Science
ESA to proceed alone on Venus Envision after NASA drops radar instrument
Products
September Office security update KB5002914 breaks Excel copy-paste and autofill
Science
Proxima Fusion plans €140M factory for fusion-grade HTS tape
Infrastructure
Kubernetes v1.37 adds alpha scheduler preemption for in-place pod resize
Robotics
Tactile datasets push robot dexterity past vision-only models
AI
Amazon Quick desktop AI assistant reaches general availability
AI
Meta AI recruit Andrew Tulloch reportedly leaving for Anthropic after under a year
Security
Anthropic reports disrupting Claude misuse across seven harm areas
Products
Kalshi to seek US approval for single-stock perpetual futures
Capital
YC spring 2026 batch shows 4% of startups with native mobile app as main product
AI
Instinct seeks $1B after $250M raise amid compute constraints
Robotics
Lyft begins offering Waymo robotaxi rides in Nashville
Products
Shopify brings Tailwind Labs into its organization
AI
AWS adds prefix-aware routing to SageMaker Inference for LLM endpoints
AI
TwelveLabs Marengo Embed 3.0 reaches general availability in Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases
AI
OpenAI posts formalized Navier-Stokes result but declines Millennium Prize claim
AI
Anthropic alleges DeepSeek and Moonshot used fake accounts to distill Claude
AI
Anthropic publishes threat intelligence report on Claude misuse disruptions
AI
AWS introduces Ray Serve container for model inference
ARTICLES
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