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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel.

Artificial Intelligence, Energy

August 12, 2026 | Amy Miller

North America

Michigan AG takes aim at OpenAI, Oracle data center deal

Data Privacy and Security

August 11, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

Social media companies seek to halt Calif. restrictions on personalized feeds
US Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh

Financial Services

August 11, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US Fed’s Warsh may face first test of whether he's Trump’s 'sock puppet'

Antitrust View More

UK watchdog on track to remove 27 market remedies in full or part

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK antitrust regulator is proposing to remove 27 market remedies in full or part after a review found that they may no longer be needed. The Competition and Markets Authority is seeking views... (more story)

German football league's investor-restriction rule receives antitrust guidance

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany's professional football league has received guidance from the national watchdog on how to apply its 50+1 ownership rule, which restricts investors' ownership of professional clubs. The re... (more story)

Google's AI Overviews draws antitrust complaint in France

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Google's rollout of AI summaries at the top of its search results in France has drawn an antitrust complaint from press publishers in the country. "The unilateral deployment of press content in n... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Manus confirms Meta separation, outlines user-data deletion plan

August 12, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

Artificial intelligence startup Manus has confirmed it is separating from Meta Platforms and returning to independent operations, nearly four months after Chinese authorities blocked Meta’s acquisition of the ... (more story)

South Korea picks 7 future technologies as growth engines for AI era

August 12, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

Asia

South Korea has identified seven strategic technology fields, including small modular reactors and quantum technology, as future growth engines to be nurtured over the next 10 to 20 years, with most of them di... (more story)

Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses target of criminal complaint in Germany

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses are at the center of a German criminal complaint filed on Wednesday against Meta, Ray-Ban, Oakley, and various sellers. According to digital rights group HateAid, the s... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

CPPIB, Equinix win EU approval for AtNorth deal

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Canadian pension fund CPPIB and US digital infrastructure business Equinix have won approval to jointly acquire Nordic data center provider AtNorth, the European Commission said on Wednesday. The... (more story)

Japan's Sony, Taiwan's TSMC agree on image-sensor JV with $4.7bn contributions

August 12, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Major Japanese electronics and entertainment group Sony said Tuesday that, based on a memorandum of understanding announced on May 8, its wholly owned chip unit Sony Semiconductor Solutions and T... (more story)

Proposed acquisition of Heeson Medical by Supagas reviewed in Australia

August 12, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: Supagas’ proposed acquisition of the assets held by Heeson Medical and Jacobba is being reviewed by the Australian antitrust regulator. In a statement on Wednesday, the Australian Competition & C... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Supply chains, certification key to EU cyber law overhaul, lead lawmaker says

August 12, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Europe

Stronger EU cybersecurity certification, tighter safeguards for critical technology supply chains and a larger operational role for the EU Agency for Cybersecurity should be in the focus of the bloc’s Cybersec... (more story)

Australian court rules X not subject to online-safety standard

August 12, 2026 | Sean Maguire and Saloni Sinha

Oceania

X Corp. has won its challenge to an Australian online-safety standard aimed at curbing harmful content, with the court ruling that X is a social-media service and cannot also be regulated as a messaging servic... (more story)

China police detail 10 personal-data crime cases across industries

August 12, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

Chinese police highlighted 10 criminal cases involving the illicit collection and trading of personal information across different industries, with millions of records allegedly used for marketing, fraud and p... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Baidu wins trademark appeal as China court counts cross-border sales toward damages

August 12, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

A Chinese court has upheld a 5-million-yuan ($741,000) damages award for tech giant Baidu in a trademark dispute, ruling that cross-border e-commerce sales may count toward damages when infringing conduct occurs in China.

Vietnam opens first criminal piracy case involving Japanese content

August 12, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japanese content owners have helped Hanoi police build what Japan’s main anti-piracy group says is Vietnam’s first criminal case involving infringement of Japanese films, anime and television programs, as the ... (more story)

India bets on human oversight to keep AI patent examination in check

August 12, 2026 | Freny Patel

Asia

India's Patent Office is embracing artificial intelligence to speed patent examination while reserving decisions for human officers, but rigorous verification could erode the efficiency gains that the technolo... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US FinCEN exempts ‘company applicants’ from finalized beneficial ownership rule

August 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

The US Treasury Department has permanently removed a requirement for Americans to report corporate beneficial ownership information to the government, and it exempted the individuals who help foreign companies... (more story)

Goliath Ventures, founder sued by US SEC over crypto Ponzi scheme

August 11, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against Goliath Ventures and its founder and chief executive, Christopher A. Delgado, for raising at least $425 million from more than ... (more story)

US FinCEN issues new final rule on reporting beneficial ownership information

August 11, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has issued a final rule that permanently removes the requirement for US companies and US persons to report beneficial ow... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US SEC’s Consolidated Audit Trail faces overhaul, Atkins says

August 11, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is set to restructure its Consolidated Audit Trail to revamp funding, rescind the 2012 rule creating the enforcement tool, and evaluate the adequacy of agency resource... (more story)

Adit Ventures settles US SEC claims of fraud

August 11, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Adit Ventures Management reached a settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission over claims that it defrauded investors and client funds in connection with investments in pre-IPO sha... (more story)

UK banks warned over limiting access to crypto businesses

August 11, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

UK banks have been challenged over their stance on providing access for crypto and digital asset firms by UK lawmakers who say their current stance is hindering the sector.

Trade View More

US CIT remands Section 232 exclusion denial for certain stainless steel products

August 11, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has remanded the Commerce Department's denial of US steel producer Mirror Metals' requests to exclude certain flat-rolled stainless steel imports from Section 232 tariffs.

US Federal Circuit upholds separate rate calculation for Chinese flooring exporters

August 11, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker

North America

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld the Commerce Department’s updated separate rate calculation for Chinese multilayered wood flooring exporters, finding that the appellants had forfeited th... (more story)

US appeals court again says magnesia carbon bricks with alumina out of scope

August 11, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower trade court ruling affirming a Commerce Department order declaring certain refractory bricks containing alumina aren't within the scope of antidum... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU probe into Post Danmark capital injection now open for feedback

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback as part of its ongoing investigation into a capital injection made by PostNord into its Post Danmark subsidiary in 2017. The commission opened an in-de... (more story)

RWE, Spain sent to ECJ by German court over investment arbitration award

August 10, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Litigation between German utility RWE and the Spanish government is heading to the EU's top court after German judges sought guidance on when the bloc's state aid law might impede the enforcement... (more story)

Denmark wins EU approval to back cleantech manufacturing capacity

August 10, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies making investments to boost manufacturing capacity for net-zero technologies and their components will be eligible for direct grants under a Danish plan worth €84 million that won EU st... (more story)

Energy View More

South Korea unveils long-term, AI-heavy strategy to nurture future growth engines

August 12, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Wednesday unveiled a policy roadmap to foster future growth engines that require long-term, strategic investment at the national level to drive disrup... (more story)

Ghana confirms cooperation in US bribery case against ex-Goldman banker

August 10, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Ghanaian authorities confirmed that they had cooperated with US investigators in the corruption case against convicted former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko. The involvement of the Ghanaian prosecutor's off... (more story)

EU raw-materials hub draws calls for industry role, greater investment powers

August 10, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Europe

EU governments, industry and campaign groups broadly back the European Commission’s planned Critical Raw Materials Centre, while differing over how far its powers should extend. Responses to a public consultat... (more story)

Technology View More

X wins challenge to Australian online-safety standard

August 12, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: X Corp. on Wednesday won its challenge to an Australian online-safety standard, with a federal judge ruling that the 2021 Online Safety Act treats social-media and messaging services as separate ... (more story)

Meta questions former researcher's ties to Tennessee’s ‘star’ witness Arturo Bejar

August 11, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

North America

A lawyer for Meta Platforms repeatedly asked a former researcher at the company about her ties to Arturo Bejar, Tennessee’s first witness in the state’s trial against the social media company, which alleges it... (more story)

New Jersey enacts privacy law for kids

August 11, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill signed the New Jersey Kids Code into law, which requires online services to provide privacy-by-default protections and imposes a duty of care to prevent compuls... (more story)