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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 10, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Apple has seen a collective action alleging antitrust abuse in how it handled iPhone power problems partially struck out by a UK court. Consumer champion Justin Gutmann's case claims that Apple a... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: In Irico Group's fight over the damages it owes for allegedly conspiring to fix prices of cathode-ray-tube products, a California federal judge adopted a modified version of the damages model pre... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Inform, Inc. opposed Google’s motion for judgment against US antitrust claims, saying it ignores the evidence in the case to reach a flawed conclusion. It also argued that Google selectively stri... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 11, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU lawmakers have struck a political deal on amendments to the bloc's landmark AI law, including a new ban on non-consensual sexual deepfakes and eased rules for AI in sector-regulated products. The plan would... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Center for Countering Digital Hate, an advocacy group, has said that eight out of 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to assist users in the planning of violent attacks. The CCDH's research... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Nvidia told EU judges that an EU move to scrutinize its takeover of Israeli startup Run:ai amounted to another “unlawful attempt” by the bloc's merger regulator to expand its review powers “without legislative... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 11, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
A coalition of state broadband and cable associations sent an ex-parte letter to the US Federal Communications Commission, proposing conditions that would mitigate potential public interest harms from Nexstar’... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
Getty Images may have to divest almost all of the editorial business of Shutterstock to ease antitrust concerns over the merger of the companies, under one scenario proposed by the UK regulator. The Competitio... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Cintas Corp. has agreed to acquire UniFirst Corp. in a transaction worth about $5.5 billion, according to a press release. The combined company would service roughly 1.5 million business customer... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 11, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
The jury in the ongoing trial in Los Angeles over social media addiction must answer a key question: If Kaley, the 20-year-old plaintiff who sued Meta Platforms and YouTube, exaggerated mistreatment by her fam... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe, Oceania
Australia’s ban on social media for under-16s has been “very successful,” the country’s online safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant told UK lawmakers, as Britain considers similar restrictions under a governm... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Online platforms are facing an increased risk of losing the EU legal basis to continue voluntarily detecting and reporting online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, after plans to extend temporary rules wer... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 11, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Online marketplaces and e-commerce platforms could one day be faced with requirements in the UK to identify vendors and customers as part of measures to combat copyright and trademark infringement. Such measur... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Cross-industry guidelines clarifying how competition law applies to transactions involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data will be issued in Japan, the country’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesd... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Standard-essential patent disputes should be steered back toward their contractual core rather than stretched to fit antitrust enforcement, a senior Chinese antitrust adviser said at a conference Wednesday in Shenzhen.
Financial Crime View More
March 11, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The UK financial regulator made “significant errors in law” as part of a fraud probe into a lawyer, judges have said, ordering it to reapply for a search warrant against the man. The High Court said that Finan... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Binance sued The Wall Street Journal over a report published in February that said the cryptocurrency exchange had fired compliance department employees for reporting transactions involving Iran.... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The basis for reaching a deferred prosecution agreement in the US money laundering and sanctions violations case against Turkish state-owned lender Hankbank is a matter for the executive branch, a prosecutor t... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 11, 2026 | Neil Roland
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Along with the Basel III capital proposal for large banks, the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. plans to issue this month a proposal for mid-size banks aimed at improving risk sensitivity in lending for serv... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Frank Hersey and Sofia Gerace
Europe
Sensible standards are needed for governing AI in financial services firms, said an official from the financial watchdog, noting that companies are turning to voluntary standards in the meantime. Sheldon Mills... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Central Bank has published its plan for Appia, an initiative to shape the development of a European tokenized financial ecosystem in which central bank money continues to play a cent... (more story)
Trade View More
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade remanded the Department of Commerce's determination that the enriched ammonium sulfate isotope is within the scope of the antidumping and antisubsidy duty orde... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Talks on the proposed EU customs overhaul could wrap on March 26, when member states and lawmakers hold their next round of end-game talks, MLex understands. Nearly three years after the European Commission pr... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department said it is complying with a court order to determine T-type tires are included within the scope of an antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from Taiwan.
State Aid View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Publishers of printed press and periodicals will be eligible for direct grants, under a Spanish plan worth €70 million to support them in the acquisition of digitalization solutions such as edit... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved €260 million of Belgian state aid in favor of Air Liquide and BASF, earmarked for the development of Kairos@C, a carbon capture and storage project. The CCS p... (more story)
March 10, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
An investigation into Spain's plan to grant €20.7 million in regional aid to carmaker Peugeot for investing in its existing plant in Vigo has been closed. In a formal notice issued Tuesday, the European Commis... (more story)
Energy View More
March 11, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The International Energy Agency's 32 member countries will release a record 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves in a bid to address disruptions in oil markets stemming from t... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The European Commission is considering capping or subsidizing gas prices as part of potential changes to the EU electricity market design aimed at cutting energy costs, commission President Ursula von der Leye... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy security is a cornerstone of EU-Azerbaijan bilateral cooperation, European Council President António Costa has said. Speaking after a meeting in Baku on Wednesday, he described the partner... (more story)
Technology View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Dutch judges are seeking clarity from the EU’s top court on whether a public authority running a database funded by public money can qualify as a “maker” under the European Database Directive, an... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top judicial authorities intensified a crackdown on emerging forms of cybercrime last year, targeting offenses enabled by artificial intelligence and online platforms as Beijing tightens oversight of t... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered Live Nation to try to hammer out a settlement with 39 US states and the District of Columbia that resolves the states' monopolization claims against the company whil... (more story)