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.
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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.
GENIUS Act Rulemaking Deadline: The Agencies Opened a Comment Window That Closes a Month After It
The GENIUS Act required final stablecoin rules by 18 July 2026. A joint agency proposal published on 22 June set a comment window that closes on 21 August.
CLARITY Act Bankruptcy Protection: What Custody Rules Cover and What the House Declined to Vote On
Lummis says the CLARITY Act keeps customer crypto out of a bankruptcy pool. The protection runs through custody rules, and one amendment never got a vote.