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Artificial Intelligence, Energy
April 23, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
April 23, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Europe
Financial Crime
April 23, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Greece’s antitrust enforcer supports the removal of unjustified territorial supply constraints, to increase cross-border trade in daily consumer goods, the watchdog said Friday, in response to th... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia, North America
Allegations linking Adani Group's domestic market conduct to US bribery charges have been dismissed by India’s antitrust watchdog. The Competition Commission of India cited the lack of dominance, evidence and ... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Coupang has strongly rejected civic calls to designate founder Bom Kim as the group’s “same person,” a designation used to identify the person ultimately responsible for a large business group’s ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 24, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Vietnam’s Ministry of Science and Technology and South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT signed a memorandum of understanding on digital cooperation and a framework of a master plan for coopera... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Microsoft has committed to investing A$25 billion ($18 billion) to expand Australia’s artificial intelligence infrastructure under a new agreement with the country’s government as part of the National AI Plan ... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
OpenAI told a California federal judge that Elon Musk should be stopped from pursuing disgorgement in a trial over the ChatGPT-developer's conversion to for-profit status, which is set to begin Monday. Musk re... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hays Travel's acquisitions of Polka Dot Travel Limited and The Independent Travel Company have been cleared by the UK antitrust regulator following an initial phase I review. The Competition and ... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
The plan by Japanese chemical companies’ Mitsui Chemicals, Idemitsu Kosan and Sumitomo Chemical to integrate parts of their plastic businesses received unconditional clearance on Friday. In its first Phase II ... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The joint venture between Chinese Shanjin International Gold Group’s International Mining Development Company and Ajlan & Bros Mining was among five transactions cleared unconditionally by China’... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 24, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Medibank Private, an Australian health insurer, will face trial over a massive 2022 data breach in October next year, a Federal Court judge ordered on Friday. Judge Jonathan Beach estimated the trial would tak... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
A US federal judge voiced doubts over the strength of privacy claims against Meta Platforms and four food banks in California over the use of Meta’s Pixel tracking tool, suggesting the plaintiffs seem to have ... (more story)
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: TikTok asked a judge in Travis County, Texas, to delay the company's trial against the Texas attorney general until October of this year, citing the aggressive deposition and document requests fr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 24, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s photovoltaic sector has launched its first patent pool, in line with Beijing’s push to establish such mechanisms in key industries to accelerate patent commercialization and strengthen the innovation e... (more story)
April 24, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Norwegian furniture maker Stokke AS and design studio Peter Opsvik AS on Friday, holding that the Tripp Trapp infant chair does not qualify for copyright protection ... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Asia, North America
RedCloud licensed its fast-moving consumer goods supply chain AI in a joint venture with a Saudi Arabian company, a move RedCloud’s CEO said can help the country navigate disruptions tied to the closure of the... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Finfluencers around the world have been targeted by global regulators as part of a week of action against individuals using their name to persuade people to sign up to unauthorized financial prom... (more story)
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department announced a series of coordinated actions by the Scam Center Strike Force against Southeast Asian criminal organizations operating scam centers that have defrauded Ameri... (more story)
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned Kok An — a Cambodian senator who controls scam compounds throughout the country — as well as 28 individuals and entiti... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 23, 2026 | Neil Roland
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Giant crypto-asset intermediaries such as Binance, Crypto.com and Bybit need comprehensive policy oversight and cross-border supervision to prevent disruptions from spilling into the broader financial system, ... (more story)
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US banking regulators finalized a rule to give community banks greater flexibility to use a simpler measure of capital adequacy and reduce regulatory burden. The final rule is being adopted witho... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority warned that proposed changes by the European Commission to new rules on operational risk could increase complexity and weaken supervisory effectiveness. In an opini... (more story)
Trade View More
April 24, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Hungary will struggle to fully cut ties with Russia, despite a pledge by new prime minister Péter Magyar to diversify its energy mix, experts say. Diversification appears feasible for oil and gas, thanks to ro... (more story)
April 24, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: Seven EU entities, including arms manufacturer FN Herstal, aerospace and defense supplier Omnipol and aerospace company Hensoldt, were added to China’s export-control list on Friday, China’s Mini... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, Europe, Middle East
Both proponents and opponents of duty orders on oil country tubular goods argued to the US International Trade Commission that Section 232 tariffs did not support US industry, but differed in their explanations for why.
State Aid View More
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Croatian measure worth €37 million, for the construction of two business facilities offering workspaces for the gaming sector in the town of Novska, has won state aid approval, the European Com... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Lufthansa has lost its legal challenge to a lower court verdict that ruled a German €6 billion recapitalization plan for the air carrier was illegal. In a judgment delivered Thursday, the EU's Co... (more story)
Energy View More
April 23, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The EU and US aim to work together to support the supply of critical minerals crucial to their commercial and defense industries — through possible coordinated trade policies and mechanisms including market an... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The EU has approved a new sanctions package targeting Russia’s energy shipping, financial services, and trade sectors, expanding its crackdown on the shadow fleet and oil revenues. The measures add 46 vessels,... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU has adopted a new sanctions package focusing on Russia’s energy revenues, including 46 additional vessels deemed to be part of a shadow fleet, new listings across the oil sector, and restr... (more story)
Technology View More
April 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US White House issued a statement saying that the government has evidence that foreign entities, primarily in China, are running industrial-scale distillation campaigns to steal American arti... (more story)
April 23, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
A New Jersey federal judge remanded the state’s lawsuit against Discord, which alleged state consumer protection violations, back to state court on Wednesday.
April 23, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
The European Commission is considering making a key EU consumer law, the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, directly applicable across the whole bloc so it has direct enforcement powers in the biggest cros... (more story)