Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Infrastructure
UAE commits €40 billion to Germany with about 1 GW of data center capacity targeted
AI
NASA and IBM release open lunar foundation model on Hugging Face
Security
Florida confirms DMV driver database breach via stolen police credentials
Security
Microsoft links passkey-themed phishing to ShinyHunters and Helix extortion crews
Security
Wiz reports Artifactory flaw chain exploited to plant Rust backdoor
AI
Microsoft plans to more than triple data center capacity to ease AI compute shortage
Security
GitLab patches maximum-severity file-read flaw as probes hit exposed servers
AI
SemiAnalysis acquires Citrini Research; founder plans new fund
AI
Lawmakers circulate letter urging Speaker Johnson to cancel fall recess for AI safeguards
AI
Y Combinator's Garry Tan urges US open-weight labs to distill frontier models
AI
Fields Medalists warn AI labs threaten math attribution in open letter
Policy
CFTC opened three previously unreported Polymarket insider-trading probes
AI
OpenAI pauses $200 ChatGPT Pro sign-ups, citing Astra demand
AI
Roblox expands AI game creation to two more countries and adds cross-platform play
Products
Figma launches Japan data residency for enterprise file hosting
AI
Tencent-backed Enflame closes 179% above IPO price in Shanghai debut
Capital
Khosla Ventures to open first office outside Sand Hill Road in New York this fall
AI
Amazon Quick desktop app ships for macOS and Windows with EU sovereign cloud gap
AI
AWS shows interactive MCP Apps deployed on Bedrock AgentCore with host-agnostic widgets
AI
New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5,000 over AI-fabricated brief in murder appeal
AI
Meta sued over photos used for NameTag face recognition and AI training
AI
Nvidia weighs up to $10B investment in Anthropic IPO, Reuters reports
AI
Oracle raises planned job cuts amid AI data center cash strain
AI
Oracle cloud infrastructure revenue up 120% as ~850 MW of new capacity comes online
AI
US Senate negotiators weigh AI duty-of-care bill with model-release block
AI
Report alleges OpenAI agent swarm uploaded malicious packages to RubyGems in May
AI
AI shape search uncovers hidden human protein TM184C
Science
Study quantifies 219 tons of airborne microplastics settling in Switzerland yearly
Robotics
Waymo funds D.C. community sponsorships ahead of robotaxi bill vote
Policy
Newsom signs California digital literacy and cybersecurity curriculum bills
AI
Anthropic says Claude was abused to scan 1.8 million Android apps for secrets
AI
AWS adds model caching to SageMaker HyperPod, cutting inference cold starts
Robotics
Pony.ai and Verne begin fully driverless robotaxi rides in Zagreb
Products
Salesforce adds Slackforce Surfaces to render live Salesforce data inside Slack
Science
Graph-based AI derives interpretable constitutive equations from solid-mechanics data
Infrastructure
AWS Lambda adds configurable direct read for Amazon S3 Files
Security
EFF: Ring's TAKE encryption still leaves key access with Amazon
Science
AI-derived Antarctic map catalogs 39,619 grounded icebergs
Capital
Situational Awareness fund rebuilds AI supply-chain bets via call options after July losses
Science
IO500 moves Sugon storage submission off Production list, restoring Aurora to first
AI
OpenAI reports about 1% of ChatGPT Work turns failing
AI
Anthropic says it disrupted China-based distillation campaigns against Claude
AI
Anthropic report details four cases of its models hacking external systems
Robotics
Zoox takes on Waymo in San Francisco with free rides and purpose-built robotaxi
AI
Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base adds TwelveLabs Marengo 3.0 multimodal embeddings
AI
AWS DevOps Agent adds bidirectional Slack communication for incident investigations
Products
AWS HealthOmics adds real-time run metrics to CloudWatch
Science
NASA's Starling satellite navigates without GPS using nearby space objects
AI
Meta changes AI prompt suggestions after viral invasive-question complaint
Security
Anthropic says Russian-linked group used Claude to rebuild malware after detection
Security
Huntress reports attackers abusing trusted AI platform features to deliver malware
Science
Protein language model CLSS unifies sequence and structure in shared map
Products
Signet raises fiscal 2027 guidance as adjusted EPS climbs
AI
Anthropic in talks to add Nvidia as anchor investor in record IPO
AI
Jeff Dean raising again for Discovery Loop at reported higher valuation
AI
Researchers link OpenAI agents to May attack on Ruby package manager RubyGems
AI
UK GDP rose 0.4% in July, ONS cites AI as major growth driver
AI
AWS benchmark harness compares OpenAI models on Bedrock by cost per correct answer
Infrastructure
US blockade cuts Iran oil exports as Hormuz flows shift to Gulf producers
AI
Meta AI to change suggested prompts after viral complaint over child questions
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