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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 02, 2026 | Madeline Hughes, Maria Dinzeo, Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
April 02, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 01, 2026 | Mike Swift
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America, Oceania
Antitrust View More
April 03, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission submitted to Congress its Fiscal Year 2027 budget request. The agency seeks $426.71 million and 1,183 full-time equivalent positions for FY2027.
April 03, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission published its FY 2026-2030 Strategic Plan, which will guide the agency over the next five years. The plan returns the phrase “without unduly burdening legitimate b... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Middle East
MLex Summary: The Turkish competition authority has opened an investigation into Google’s invoicing and commercial practices, according to a press release issued Friday. The regulator will look into allegation... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s cyberspace regulator has released draft measures to govern digital virtual-human services, aiming to promote healthy development and standardize their use. The proposal requires providers... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Microsoft said on Friday that it will invest $10 billion in Japan through 2029 to strengthen artificial intelligence infrastructure. The US technology giant plans to collaborate with Sakura Inter... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s industry ministry launched a campaign to expand affordable computing access for small- and medium-sized enterprises, aiming to lower costs and support digital and AI adoption through 2028... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 03, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Ireland’s competition watchdog is entering a “new era,” with an increase in administrative enforcement outcomes under new enforcement rules being a major priority, an official told MLex. Úna Butler said the CC... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
The market regulator in China's Liaoning Province said in an announcement Thursday that it will recruit experts for merger review and antitrust enforcement, as China expands merger-review powers to provinces t... (more story)
April 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Black Hills Corp. and NorthWestern Energy Group said shareholders of each company voted to approve the proposed all-stock merger and other related shareholder proposals at special shareholder mee... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 03, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
Asia, North America
Recent updates to Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules — and US leadership on the reforms — will help ensure a more open and rights-preserving digital economy, Commerce and State Department officials said Thursda... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Meta Platforms’ exposure to a potential settlement in a German consumer action over a Facebook data leak is emerging as a key test of how far collective redress under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulatio... (more story)
April 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s cyberspace regulator has released a draft regulation outlining simplified data-protection requirements for small-scale personal-information handlers, aiming to support compliance and spur... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 03, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Tokyo court dismissed a trademark infringement suit over a “dinosaur test” label, finding that the plaintiff’s registered logo had to be assessed as a unified design rather than broken into its textual eleme... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese companies are accelerating their global expansion, driven by a surge in domestic innovation, but are increasingly encountering legal and regulatory headwinds as they enter foreign markets, a report showed.
April 03, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Harvard College’s insulin-cell patent rejection was overturned by an Indian court, which cited a "glaring error" by the Controller General of Patents, Designs, and Trademarks. The Delhi High Court ordered a fr... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 03, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat from Connecticut, pressed Richard Teng, co-chief executive officer of Binance, on concerns the company may have provided misrepresentations or misleading... (more story)
April 02, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In the wake of a ruling by another US judge who vacated a Treasury Department rule requiring certain buyers of residential real estate to identify their beneficial owners, a judge is reconsiderin... (more story)
April 02, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission announced a supplemental consent order against Nishad Singh, the former head of engineering at FTX, imposing disgorgement of $3.7 million, requiring c... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 03, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued three states over what the agency described as its exclusive authority to oversee booming prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket. The CFTC, led by Cha... (more story)
April 02, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial regulators are setting up a new Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Taskforce. The Financial Conduct Authority said that new body will inform the regulator's approach to harmonizing... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
KPMG won’t face any action over its audit of gambling company Entain, the UK’s Financial Reporting Council said Thursday. “Having reviewed the evidence obtained in the investigation, and having considered all ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 03, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
The announcement by US President Donald Trump on Thursday to lower tariffs on steel, aluminum and copper derivatives — products that contain these metals — has been welcomed by Bernd Lange, the chair of the Eu... (more story)
April 03, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A coalition of US manufacturers and labor unions petitioned the US International Trade Commission to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on certain oil country tubular goods imported fro... (more story)
April 03, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
EU steelmakers are urging the European Commission to widen the scope of its carbon border levy, to tighten anti-circumvention rules, and to delay any move to include pre-consumer steel scrap as a precursor. Ad... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Zenobē Energy has filed a second challenge over a subsidy decision made by the UK energy regulator, according to the UK antitrust tribunal, which broadens out arguments made in the first. The cas... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened an in-depth investigation into the French government's plan to support Électricité de France with the construction and operation of six nuclear reactors. The ne... (more story)
March 31, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's planned increase in restructuring aid to €2.86 billion for state-owned lignite mining and power generation company CE Oltenia and extended until the end of 2029 is open for feedback for... (more story)
Energy View More
April 03, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU steelmakers are calling for a broader extension of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism to downstream goods, tougher anti-circumvention measures and the exclusion of pre-consumer steel scrap... (more story)
April 01, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
EU carbon allowances in the Market Stability Reserve will be kept in the reserve, instead of being invalidated as is usually the case, according to a European Commission proposal published Wednesday. The move ... (more story)
April 01, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: ACER, the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, has said it will decide by June 25 about changes to the methodology for assessing regional electricity reserve capacity, aimed at imp... (more story)
Technology View More
April 03, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe, North America
EU competition chief Teresa Ribera sees a world where international law is imperiled by the US doctrine of “might is right.” She is determined to keep power politics out of antitrust enforcement and apply the ... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
An umbrella group of EU data protection authorities will release guidelines on anonymization — a key concept on how the bloc’s data protection rules are applied to personal data — by the summer, the group’s ch... (more story)
April 02, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK adults are increasingly using AI tools in everyday life, with some turning to chatbots for advice and conversation, research by the media regulator Ofcom shows. The study comes as the UK examines how to reg... (more story)