CLARITY Act Senate Vote: The Police Union Switched Sides and the Seven Votes Did Not Move
The National Fraternal Order of Police dropped its opposition to the CLARITY Act. Seven Senate Democrats still say the merged text falls short.
Rosalia Mazza
Cavour Hyperscale Campus: The €4 Billion Trino Data Centre Overrides Local Planning
Italy's €4 billion Cavour Hyperscale Campus at Trino carries a single authorisation that acts as a planning variant and opens expropriation procedures.
Buy Now, Pay Later Adoption Nears a Record, and Its Growth Is Hiding From Credit Files
Buy now, pay later adoption neared a record in Q2 2026, and its fastest growth, among lower-income and renter households, stays largely invisible to credit files.
Claude Opus 5 Fallback: Anthropic Answers Flagged Requests with a Weaker Model
Claude Opus 5 answers requests its safety filter flags using the older Opus 4.8 rather than refusing, so a flagged reply can come from a weaker model than labelled.
CLARITY Act Ethics Provision: The Conflict Ban Written to Expire in 2029
The near-final CLARITY Act draft adds a conflict-of-interest ban on the president and federal officials that its sponsors wrote to expire in January 2029.
CFTC Perpetual Futures: Why Exchanges Stopped Claiming Regulatory Firsts and Kept Launching the Product
Exchanges stopped claiming regulatory firsts for CFTC perpetual futures and kept listing the contracts while a court decides if they are swaps.
Perpetual futures: regulatory milestones stopped on 2026-07-08, product launches did not
Cantica recorded seven perpetual futures developments between 7 June and 7 July 2026, all with regulatory language. Then, Binance announced further USD-margined perpetual contracts on traditional finance assets on 16 July and a SpaceX contract on 20 July, and Bitget listed quanto perpetual futures on Hong Kong dollar equities