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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 28, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 27, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust, Technology
January 27, 2026 | Chris May
North America
Antitrust View More
January 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Google's search and search advertising activities face a range of conduct requirements including changes to publisher controls and ranking operations according to plans set out by the UK competition authority ... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
Vet practices may have to publish price lists for common treatments and disclose the ownership of the businesses, the UK government said, among potential measures that that mirror some of the proposals from th... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has seen a package of conduct requirements proposed by the UK competition regulator, including in relation to publisher controls, ranking, choice screens and data portability. The move fol... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A range of industry-developed practical AI skills courses are available for all UK adults to take for free as part of an extended project that aims to train 10 million people and make the UK the ... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Lawmakers approved a non-binding report in a vote supporting voluntary licensing agreements between right holders and AI companies. The non-binding text calls for improved transparency for AI training data and... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese authorities are preparing new policy measures to cushion the labor impact of artificial intelligence, as automation accelerates across the economy and employment pressures mount. China’s Ministry of Hu... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 28, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Sanofi and Dynavax Technologies have received merger clearances from the US and German antitrust authorities for their $2.2 billion deal, according to a securities filing.
January 28, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Sanofi and Dynavax Technologies have said the antitrust waiting period with the US antitrust authorities for their $2.2 billion deal expired on Jan. 27. The pharmaceutical companies also said they received cle... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Danish shipping company DFDS's acquisition of rival Naviera Armas's ferry operations in the Strait of Gibraltar is being subjected to a full investigation, the Spanish competition authority said ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 28, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission is looking to put a policy statement urging companies to adopt online age verification technology to comply with Children's Online Privacy Protection Act rules, Chairman Andrew ... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The Digital Networks Act, the EU’s draft bill to revamp the bloc’s telecom laws, will be steered through the European Parliament by the centrist Renew Group, MLex has learned. The DNA, which was proposed last ... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Changes to the definition of personal data in the European Commission's planned revision of the EU's data privacy rules would undermine the foundations of data protection and are not the right ap... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 28, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Architecture practice Zaha Hadid Ltd took its fight to extricate itself from a licensing agreement obliging it to pay the Zaha Hadid Foundation forever to the UK Court of Appeal on Wednesday, arguing that a lo... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Foreign companies are increasingly turning to Chinese courts to resolve intellectual property disputes, China’s top court said, as rising caseloads, faster rulings and higher damages reshape the country’s IP l... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court overturned a patent office decision that had stripped most protection from a Riken Technos coating patent, faulting the patent regulator for assuming an obvious prior a... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin were raided on Wednesday by prosecutors investigating suspected money laundering. “The bank is cooperating fully with the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office. We ... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong's privacy regulator is teaming up with the city's banking authority to crack down on data misuse and fraud, as the financial hub grapples with rising data breaches and deception cases. The city recor... (more story)
January 28, 2026
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission filed settled charges against Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and former executives Vince Macciocchi and Ray Young for allegedly materially inflating the performance of bus... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador spoke at an agency workshop on noncompete agreements, saying such agreements can be anticompetitive but that a one-size-fits-all remedy can't be applied ... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Cryptocurrency money laundering reached $82 billion in 2025, a more-than-eightfold increase since 2020, according to research released on Tuesday by the blockchain analytics company Chainalysis. After emerging... (more story)
January 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Chinese national Jingliang Su was sentenced to 46 months in prison for his role in laundering more than $36.9 million from victims in a digital asset investment conspiracy that was carried out fr... (more story)
Trade View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Measures to protect the EU steel market from global overcapacity, including lower import quotas, have been approved by the European Parliament's International Trade Committee. The lawmakers on th... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Asia, Europe
Getting EU free-trade deals signed with Mexico, the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia is a priority for Cyprus in its role chairing legislative talks for member states in the first half of this year, the coun... (more story)
January 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Chinese steel nail exporter Shanghai Yueda Nails Co. sold its products at less than normal value in the US, the Commerce Department said in a preliminary determination. The determination follows ... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Zenobē Energy told a UK tribunal Wednesday that its UK appeal over an alleged unlawful subsidy made by the UK’s regulator of gas and electricity markets doesn't need a court hearing over narrowed-down issues. ... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won approval for its plan to spend €3.1 billion in public funding to back the production of electricity from new or refurbished highly efficient combined heat and power plants, the Euro... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said it signed on Monday a statement of intent with the US Department of Energy to deepen bilateral collaboration on artific... (more story)
Energy View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will invest almost €650 million to support 14 cross-border energy projects, focusing on electricity grids and hydrogen infrastructure. In a statement on Wednesday, the com... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Indian companies exporting goods in scope of the EU's carbon border tax will receive technical support under the EU-India trade deal announced on Tuesday, a European Commission official said. The agreement als... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU energy watchdog has issued guidance on voluntary reporting to track cybersecurity performance in EU electricity networks. Power companies and service providers will share data on cyber thr... (more story)
Technology View More
January 28, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Ilana Kowarski
North America
The Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice will be able to retain any excess premerger notification filing fees in fiscal year 2026 following an appropriations bill signed into law by President Don... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Renesas Electronics America has had a search warrant executed at its premises as part of a US Department of Justice investigation into suspected price-fixing of semiconductor components, MLex has learned.
January 27, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
The UK’s online safety regulator, Ofcom, would like to share more of its progress with the big companies it supervises in order to build public trust in their efforts, the watchdog’s chief told lawmakers. The ... (more story)