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Anthropic

Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services

June 01, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

EU cybersecurity agency set to get access to Anthropic’s AI model
Wise Global Money app listing captured on iPad screen 2026

Financial Crime

June 01, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Wise Europe embroiled in Belgian money-laundering probe at 'advanced' stage

Antitrust View More

X Corp. defends objection to producing Musk messages in US antitrust suit

June 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: X Corp. filed a reply in support of its objection to a US magistrate judge's order compelling X and X.AI to produce emails from Elon Musk in their US antitrust case against OpenAI and Apple, sayi... (more story)

Higher UK retail fuel prices are mostly due to wholesale costs, CMA finds

June 01, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK antitrust regulator has said it found no evidence that fuel retailers altered their pricing strategies to take advantage of the oil shock relating to the conflict in the Middle East. Eleva... (more story)

India's antitrust watchdog proposes major reset of commitment proceedings

June 01, 2026 | Freny Patel

Asia

India's antitrust regulator has proposed amendments to its commitment framework, extending timelines, introducing a defect-cure mechanism and tightening procedural safeguards. The proposed changes to the Compe... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Anthropic submits confidential S-1 to SEC in advance of IPO

June 01, 2026

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: Anthropic has submitted its draft S-1 form to the US Securities and Exchange Commission in advance of a possible public stock offering sometime this year. The wide spectrum disclosures contained ... (more story)

Florida AG sues OpenAI, Sam Altman alleging harm to children

June 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier sued OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the company, under Altman's leadership, violated Florida consumer protection law because of misrepresentations about t... (more story)

UK privacy regulator to publish new AI strategy this year after government request

June 01, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK’s privacy regulator is developing a new AI workplan for 2026/27 that will focus on boosting public trust in AI and giving businesses more certainty on how data protection law applies to AI... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Sun Pharma, Organon filed HSR May 21, waiting period expires June 22

June 01, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: Sun Pharmaceuticals and Organon & Co. filed their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification on May 21, setting up a June 22 expiration, Organon said in a US securities filing.

Spare EU scale-ups 'unnecessary' competition-law obstacles, lawmakers say

June 01, 2026 | Jean Comte

Europe

The EU lacks large companies able to compete globally, and its competition rules should not seek to prevent business scaling up, according to a draft European Parliament document. The non-binding annual compet... (more story)

Auchan-ITM food-retail joint venture to be reviewed in France

June 01, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Plans by Auchan and ITM Entreprises to form a joint venture that would run more than 160 food-retail shops under the Intermarché or Netto banners in mainland France will be assessed by the French... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Texas AG Paxton celebrates appeals court decision to lift stay on social media law

June 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to allow Texas Senate Bill 2420 to go into effect pending further litigation. The district... (more story)

Social media companies say they'll upgrade reports to US children's center

June 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary:  Following an inquiry from Senator Chuck Grassley's into how eight social media companies are reporting information of child sexual abuse materials to the National Center for Missing & Exploited... (more story)

EU Data Act overhaul narrows data requests, clarifies GDPR oversight

June 01, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Europe

The EU's Data Act provisions governing emergency data requests would be tightened — while member states move to clarify GDPR enforcement responsibilities and aim to fold parts of several EU data laws into a si... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

USTR launches Vietnam IP enforcement investigation

June 01, 2026 | Nick Robertson

Asia, North America

The Office of the US Trade Representative announced a Section 301 investigation into Vietnam’s intellectual property protection and enforcement mechanisms, seeking to determine whether the country’s IP framewo... (more story)

Trade secret experts divided after US Federal Circuit erases Insulet win

June 01, 2026 | Steve Scherer and Nick Robertson

North America

A precedential decision from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit holding that Insulet's trade-secret claims were time-barred has sparked debate among practitioners about when the Defend Trade Secre... (more story)

China's top court calls for IP reforms to address AI, cross-border disputes

June 01, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China faces mounting challenges from artificial intelligence, foreign-related patent disputes and institutional capacity constraints, according to a study by the country’s top court, which proposes a series of... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Adani can now deny SEC allegations under amended US settlement documents

June 01, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

In line with a recent policy rescission, the US Securities and Exchange Commission won’t require Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew not to deny the agency’s claims in a settlement of fraud charges,... (more story)

More harmonized EU rules to tackle corruption take effect

June 01, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: More harmonized EU rules for tackling corruption took effect on Sunday with unified definitions for various offenses including bribery, misappropriation, trading in influence, unlawful exercise o... (more story)

Iranian network defrauding US firms sanctioned for supplying Iran's military

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against an Iran-based procurement network that impersonated and defrauded US companies in order to procure restric... (more story)

Financial Services View More

EU securitization talks between lawmakers and EU countries foreseen on June 17

June 01, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

EU lawmakers and member states are expected to hold their first negotiation session on June 17 on revamped securitization rules aimed at boosting the bloc's market through loosened capital requirements and str... (more story)

ASEAN concludes negotiations on digital-economy deal

June 01, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: ASEAN senior economic officials have concluded negotiations on the ASEAN Digital Economy Framework Agreement, or DEFA, resolving all remaining issues and paving the way for the pact’s expected si... (more story)

US SEC issues draft to cancel Biden-era rules on climate change

May 29, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to withdraw pending Biden-era rules requiring thousands of public companies to disclose their climate-related impacts and the risks they face from global warm... (more story)

Trade View More

Subsidies in 15 industries hit 18-year high, OECD says

June 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Industrial subsidies hit levels not seen since the 2008 financial crisis across 15 industries, including agriculture, fisheries and fossil fuels, according to a report from the Organization for E... (more story)

Belgium's Wallonia must ratify EU-Canada trade deal quickly, its leader urges

June 01, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Europe, North America

The EU-Canada trade deal must be quickly ratified by Wallonia, or Belgium's French-speaking region risks losing its credibility in a world of rising global trade tensions, Adrien Dolimont, the region's prime m... (more story)

US Commerce initiates duty order investigation into Chinese rubber compound

June 01, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department initiated antidumping and antisubsidy duty order investigations into imports of N-Cyclohexylbenzothiazole-2-Sulfenamide (CBS), a chemical compound used to improve the d... (more story)

State Aid View More

Spanish state aid for electricity capacity mechanism approved by EU

May 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Spain’s plan to provide €9 billion in state aid for electricity capacity mechanisms aimed at safeguarding security of supply has been approved by the European Commission. The measure, which will ... (more story)

Spanish state aid for farmers facing rising fertilizer costs approved by EU

May 28, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Spanish plans to provide up to €500 million to farmers facing rising fertilizer costs have been approved by EU state aid regulators. The aid will cover up to 70 percent of the additional fertiliz... (more story)

Tech companies need state-aid rules to better understand their financing, EU states urge

May 28, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

EU countries including Germany, Belgium, Spain and Poland are pushing for an overhaul of state-aid rules they say are unintentionally blocking support for start-ups, tech firms and social enterprises. At a min... (more story)

Energy View More

EU nuclear sector seeks stronger financing support for new reactors

June 01, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Stronger financing tools and greater regulatory certainty will be needed to deliver Europe's nuclear ambitions, especially on small modular reactors, EU governments and industry representatives said at a confe... (more story)

Litigation to test EU's plan to build carbon-storage market

June 01, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Fifteen legal challenges brought by EU oil and gas producers against the bloc's Carbon Capture and Storage framework are set to test the legal foundations of a key pillar of the Net-Zero Industry Act. The case... (more story)

Jurisdictional lines at heart of US data center hookup talks

May 29, 2026 | Emma Whitford

North America

US state utility regulators are awaiting federal guidance that could standardize how energy-intensive artificial intelligence data centers hook up to the electric grid. The process, which kicked off last fall,... (more story)

Technology View More

X sees delay to deadline for EU regulators’ opinion on its DSA compliance plan

June 01, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

X has seen a deadline for the European Board for Digital Services to issue an opinion on the social media giant's plans to comply with parts of the EU’s Digital Services Act pushed back to mid-June, the Europe... (more story)

US clarifies non-export of AI chip flows to Chinese firms outside of China

June 01, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security published a notice that clarified that exporting to China advanced semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence requires a l... (more story)

UK draft intimate image abuse detection rules to start parliamentary scrutiny

June 01, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: UK user-to-user platforms and search engines are expected to use hash-matching technology to detect and prevent the recirculation of non-consensual intimate images under draft amendments to Ofcom... (more story)