Net Neutrality at an Economic Glance
The ISP gamble.
Pierce Berke Feb 15, 2026 12 min
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California startups capture record $385B in 2026 funding
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Sycamine says Japan committed $21 billion to two GlobalFoundries fabs
AI
Meta plans $95B stock financing for AI expansion
Capital
Nevis raises $70M with Schwab joining wealth software investors
Robotics
Bedrock Robotics raises $600M at a $4.1B valuation
Capital
Matiks raises $10 million to expand puzzle games and game creation
AI
Nous raises $17m to expand household agent beyond Britain
Capital
Colare launches hardware hiring tests with $2.5M in pre-seed funding
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PwC confirms breach at vendor holding employee learning records
AI
Cadence launches Maestro models specialized for chip design tools
Products
AmTrust buys Wakam, restoring underwriting capacity for embedded insurance platform
AI
Moonshot says Kimi K3.1 Pro filtering reduces exploit-solving performance
Products
Tech Mahindra buys Finastra cash management products and intellectual property
Science
DeepAVR preprint reports correct patches for 92.3% of VulnLoc vulnerabilities
Security
AWS makes Continuum vulnerability remediation service generally available
Infrastructure
TSMC's first Phoenix fab reaches output rates comparable to Taiwan facilities
Capital
Unconventional AI agrees to acquire chip startup NeuReality
AI
Entire opens Git hosting platform built for coding agents
Products
Instagram expands longform widescreen video test to the US
Security
Cathedral claims AI agents breached Anthropic systems in under 12 hours
Robotics
GXO expands Digit robot agreement to North Carolina and Tennessee sites
Infrastructure
Meta opens AI network transport software and submits switch platform specification
AI
Google makes LookML business definitions available through Knowledge Catalog
Infrastructure
Stalwart releases stable mail server with finalized database schema
AI
Strawberry releases browser with shareable AI assistants for teams
Security
23andMe agrees to $6 million settlement over genetic data safeguards
AI
SpaceX signs roughly $40 billion Apollo lease for Nvidia GPUs
Policy
Temu remediation plan requires scrutiny of illegal-goods risks
Capital
LIS Technologies files for IPO to develop laser uranium enrichment
Capital
First Tracks files to register resale of 6,106,870 shares
Infrastructure
Tata Communications plans up to $450 million fiber network linking Indian AI hubs
AI
Elvis Presley rightsholders sue Anthropic over alleged training use of songs
AI
Anthropic filing reveals first operating profit and own data center effort
AI
Anthropic filing shows broader cross-product use among major customers
Security
Google introduces IAM Helper workflows for coding agents
Products
Microsoft offers voluntary buyouts to around 60,000 employees
Products
CSS-Tricks returns to independent ownership after DigitalOcean tenure
Security
Microsoft issues emergency .NET fixes for Brotli decoding flaw
AI
Sweden's Government Offices block web access to ChatGPT and Claude
Infrastructure
Chinese team claims 3.2 Pb/s real-time optical transmission record
Robotics
Agility says three additional manufacturers are paying to evaluate Digit
Products
Samsung reportedly cuts Galaxy A production as component costs rise
Science
Extra quantum dot improves tuning of fast spin qubits
Science
Karman says JPL selected it to develop SkyFall parachute deployment system
Capital
Anthropic IPO filing gives founders 50.1% voting power under proposed structure
Products
Google plans Beam video booths at 20 USO locations
AI
Ubicloud says decoding change eliminates malformed tool calls in benchmark
Robotics
Turo to identify Tesla rentals with supervised driving software
Infrastructure
Pharo 14 adds RISC-V compilation support and command-line debugging
AI
Unofficial firmware unlocks lift matrix throughput on selected Nvidia GPUs
Security
Kali Linux 2026.3 adds six security tools and containerized builds
Products
BYD adds claimed five-minute charging to three Seagull trims
Infrastructure
SWI Compute announces approximately $1 billion in Nvidia system orders
AI
Preprint reports fixes that reduce speech-model collapse in hour-long replays
Science
AI tuning system reports 86.80% beam extraction rate on fusion ion sources
Science
TRACE preprint reconstructs removed training text from model snapshots
Infrastructure
Nvidia extends Mission Control recovery to Kubernetes workloads
AI
IBM reports broader PyTorch and vLLM support for Spyre accelerators
AI
Researchers report customer-linked security gaps in Qwen3-Coder output
Products
Volkswagen and Xpeng secure autonomous driving trial approvals in China
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