Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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Capital
Ramp reportedly raises about $1.85B at $60B pre-money valuation
Capital
Monte Carlo Capital closes €13 million toward second venture fund
Capital
Saudi AI company Echelon raises funding for enterprise and government deployments
Robotics
Danu Robotics raises $5 million as recycling robots begin shipping
Security
Pays accounts used "123456" during Danish civil registry breach
Capital
Sabi raises $50M seed for cap intended to turn neural signals into AI prompts
Security
Huntress finds exploited AhsayCBS flaws persist in latest release
Security
FBI arrests suspected ShinyHunters member linked to agency breach
Robotics
One-gram DirectHop robot demonstrates adjustable jumps and self-righting
Policy
US sanctions on ICC restrict service providers, with software exemptions
Infrastructure
Cloudflare acquires Deno, a rival in developer infrastructure
Infrastructure
Four-hour batteries undercut open-cycle gas turbines in 43 surveyed markets
Robotics
ROBOTERA reports manipulation benchmark lead for open-source VPP2
Policy
Turkey bars under-15s from social media starting 1 November
AI
Anthropic cuts internet access for internal evaluations after agent exploits
AI
Prime Intellect ships Rust rewrite of Prime Agent with Windows support
Infrastructure
Yandex says drone attack disabled modules at Kaluga data center
Security
Bitwarden plans commercial builds for app stores starting next release
AI
OpenAI mathematics release leaves researchers facing a large verification backlog
AI
Cloudflare releases Clef-omni and cuts Clef-flash price and context
Infrastructure
DuckDB 2.0 alpha review finds faster S3 reads with workload limits
Policy
Defendant in Super Micro chip diversion case pleads guilty
Security
Ledger confirms hardware implant in wallet amid reported crypto thefts
AI
White House warns AI firms to report incidents and remedy harm
Infrastructure
Oracle trucks natural gas to support data center construction schedules
AI
Easy Fox says AI bills exceed $1,000 a day for free Steam demo
Infrastructure
SpaceX acquiring Grain Management spectrum for indoor satellite cell service
Security
Apate says its anti-scam platform operates around 350,000 AI bots
AI
Amp adds Claude subscription access for coding tasks
AI
Remote says revenue per employee rose 50% as AI changes hiring plans
Science
Lilly reports greater weight loss with experimental combination, but more treatment exits
AI
Google removes manual model selection for free Gemini users
Products
Google Health adds irregular heart rhythm notifications in Japan
Infrastructure
Cloudflare plans to end Deno runtime development after one year
AI
Mathematicians identify mismatch in OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof versions
Infrastructure
Upscale AI selects Nvidia chips for its scale-out network switches
AI
ChatGPT Android issue blocks some content as fix rolls out
Security
Fake Claude downloads use Bing redirects to conceal malicious Google ads
AI
micro1 plans $1bn in purchases of business data for AI training
AI
Workers describe expanding AI use at three major US book publishers
AI
Some Linux maintainers now expect AI reviews before accepting patches
AI
Microsoft presents Surface Laptop Ultra for running large AI models locally
Infrastructure
Amazon says it will end NDAs in local government data center negotiations
Products
Python 3.15 arrives with lazy imports and upgraded experimental compiler
Infrastructure
FCC approves deployment of 15,000 Starlink Mobile satellites
Policy
TikTok and Kick say planned execution livestream would violate their policies
AI
Synopsys explores Chinese AI partnerships for chip design tools
Capital
Firmus IPO collapses after investors reject $30B valuation
AI
Anthropic agents reportedly submitted 20 incomplete visa applications
Capital
Nuvacore seeks hundreds of millions at approximately $2.5B valuation
Security
AWS Security Hub adds on-demand findings exports to S3
AI
Vercel adds domain purchase workflow for AI agents, with user confirmation
AI
OpenAI defends firing three safety researchers who dispute its explanation
Infrastructure
AWS adds R8gd instances with local SSD storage to European Sovereign Cloud
Infrastructure
AWS brings R8g memory-focused instances to Germany sovereign cloud region
AI
Amazon Bedrock adds reasoning summaries for OpenAI models
AI
AWS adds Claude Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 to Kiro in GovCloud
Infrastructure
AWS brings S3 Vectors pre-filtering to GovCloud
Robotics
Tesla renames European driving system as Germany backs approval effort
Products
AWS Lambda adds OAuth access to self-managed Kafka workloads
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