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Openreach is pushing Britain's copper telephone network closer to retirement, announcing another one hundred and twelve exchange areas where providers will be banned from selling legacy copper services to premises that already have access to full fiber. It's a steady, methodical wind-down of infrastructure that has served the country for generations, forcing both providers and customers to make the jump to modern digital connections whether they're ready or not.
Shifting to the United States, Nvidia is reportedly the force behind a fifty billion dollar lease on a Texas data center — one that would, naturally, run on its own chips. The scale here is staggering, and it underscores how Nvidia has moved well beyond selling hardware into shaping the physical infrastructure of the AI era itself. That's a company betting heavily on its own dominance.
And in financial regulation, the CFTC and the CME are locked in a serious dispute over onchain perpetual futures contracts. The CFTC recently granted its first approval for crypto perps, but the CME is pushing back hard, arguing the regulator is straying outside the boundaries of existing law. It's a fight that will likely define how crypto derivatives are governed for years to come.
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