Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 03, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
November 02, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 02, 2026 | Xu Yuan
November 03, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea's antitrust regulator will significantly increase penalties for repeated corporate-disclosure violations while eliminating several reductions that previously allowed companies to avoi... (more story)
November 03, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Broadcom has lost its final legal challenge against a South Korean antitrust fine of 18.6 billion won ($13.9 million) for abusing its superior bargaining position to force Samsung Electronics into an unfavorab... (more story)
Oceania
MLex Summary: The New Zealand Commerce Commission on Tuesday said some major electricity network projects may not be properly testing cheaper alternatives before committing to costly upgrades. The commission's... (more story)
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT on Tuesday opened an “AI Humanoid Data Factory,” a facility where AI-powered humanoid robots are remotely operated to perform tasks while data on their m... (more story)
November 03, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung ordered an overhaul of the country’s cybersecurity system following a reported $6.3 billion cryptocurrency theft at Binance, calling for consideration of a cybersecurity cz... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
Brave, a privacy-focused browser and AI search company headquartered in San Francisco, is facing a copyright lawsuit from The New York Times and other publishers for allegedly scraping content to fuel its sear... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Union Pacific Railroad has asked the US Surface Transportation Board to overturn an administrative law judge’s decision to publicize the company’s video recording of Chief Executive Jim Vena’s keynote speech a... (more story)
November 02, 2026
MLex Summary: An executive of M4 Railcar Group, a train car leasing and logistics firm, urged the US Surface Transportation Board to deny Union Pacific Railroad's application to buy its competitor Norfolk Sout... (more story)
MLex Summary: Union Pacific Railroad's refusal to submit a publicly accessible video of its CEO Jim Vena's remarks at a rail shipper conference on Oct. 30, as required by Administrative Law Judge Jenifer J. So... (more story)
November 03, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Australia’s social media ban for under-16s imposes an unjustifiable restriction on political communication while failing to protect children from the risks it targets, Reddit argued as the country’s top court ... (more story)
November 03, 2026 | Sean Maguire
The Western Australian Police Force has concluded Australia’s first police trial of live facial recognition, scanning almost 1.4 million faces and reporting 122 arrests, contact with 146 registered sex offende... (more story)
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung's passport details and other personal information were exposed alongside those of 167 people aboard the presidential aircraft, prompting the country's privacy regulator to ... (more story)
November 03, 2026 | MLex Staff
A Chinese market regulator in the city of Shenzhen has issued guidelines urging businesses to tighten controls on the use of artificial intelligence tools and preserve evidence when trade secrets leak, as wide... (more story)
MLex Summary: The Daily News, the Chicago Tribune and the Orlando Sentinel filed copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act claims against Brave Software, following a similar lawsuit from the ... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
For quantitative trading firms, proprietary source code and algorithms are the business. A three-week criminal trial in New York against Cheuk Fung Richard Ho, scheduled to begin Monday, could offer a rare gli... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Neil Roland
The US Securities and Exchange Commission should consider revising its 2006 corporate penalties policies in light of changed situations not originally contemplated that have led to unprecedented and unwarrante... (more story)
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's financial regulator said it will look into whether it met its responsibilities under whistleblowing law and followed its own policies and procedures over its interactions with Simon Andr... (more story)
October 31, 2026
MLex Summary: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is releasing information advising that North Korea was responsible for the theft on Oct. 29 of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from cryptocurrency exchange Binance.
MLex Summary: EU countries’ agreed text for legislation to better integrate the bloc’s capital markets, the Market Integration and Supervision Package, has been published after being finalized on Oct. 30. The ... (more story)
MLex Summary: UK digital regulators said they wanted to be "explicit" that existing legal and regulatory frameworks apply to AI agents. The Competition and Markets Authority, the Information Commission’s Offic... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
Europe, North America
California should exempt its federally chartered banks from a 2023 law requiring disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, US Comptroller Jonathan Gould said, citing an “undue burden” on the firms and a distract... (more story)
China's Ministry of Commerce has proposed new enforcement rules that would offer lighter penalties to companies that voluntarily disclose dual-use export-control violations or maintain effective compliance pro... (more story)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China and Switzerland signed a protocol upgrading their bilateral free trade agreement on Friday, covering greater market access for goods, services and investment, as well as updated rules on co... (more story)
Asia, Middle East
MLex Summary: Indonesia and Turkey are exploring a preferential trade agreement to expand market access and strengthen bilateral trade, Indonesia's Trade Ministry said on Monday. The proposal was discussed dur... (more story)
October 27, 2026
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus and Indian technology company HCLTech said on Monday that they have opened two semiconductor development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, to supp... (more story)
October 26, 2026
MLex Summary: The Greek Council of State has released the public version of its decision in August to refer to the EU top court a dispute between the Greek state and the newspaper Dimokratia. The dispute regar... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Amy Miller
The NAACP's lawsuit against xAI over alleged pollution from its data center power plant will go on after a Mississippi federal judge upheld citizen enforcement of the Clean Air Act, dealing a blow to the compa... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Louis de Briant
EU plans to ease renewable-hydrogen production rules could lower costs, but uncertainty over future binding targets for demand risks deterring investors. Companies and national officials at European Hydrogen W... (more story)
MLex Summary: Companies supplying the EU market could face higher compliance costs and barriers to entry under digital product passport requirements, according to an Oxera study commissioned by Amazon. Additio... (more story)
An Australian class action against Meta Platforms over alleged social-media harms will return to court in February as a judge awaits a potentially competing lawsuit that another law firm expects to file in Jan... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Ministers should accept a late amendment to the UK government's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill requiring annual reviews of which businesses face cybersecurity duties, a senior lawmaker said on Monday as th... (more story)
November 02, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms has defended its advertising safeguards, and said it was reviewing a report alleging that ads on its services promoted “nudifier” apps available through Google and Apple’s app stores. European r... (more story)