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Artificial Intelligence
August 06, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
August 06, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
Financial Crime, Financial Services
August 05, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
August 07, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
Search-giant Google will face a single antitrust adtech lawsuit in Australia, after a judge ruled that only the broader class action filed by law firm Maurice Blackburn Lawyers should proceed, with a more focu... (more story)
August 07, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Hong Kong's Competition Commission today launched a public consultation through Nov. 7 as part of its second review of the block exemption order for vessel-sharing agreements, or VSAs, between li... (more story)
August 07, 2025 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong's competition authority raided four locations earlier this week, including offices of a building-maintenance contractor and consultant, in an investigation into alleged bid rigging tied to a HK$40 mi... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
August 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: While 7 percent of Meta users in Germany support the company’s use of personal data for AI training, 66 percent actively said they don’t want their data to be used for that purpose, according to ... (more story)
August 07, 2025
Asia,North America
MLex Summary: South Korea’s senior presidential aide for artificial intelligence policy, Ha Jung-woo, recently met with Michael Kratsios, Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, an... (more story)
August 07, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Businesses and individuals in the UK could benefit from cheaper electricity in the long term by deploying grid-level predictions, the government has said as it calls for AI experts to submit idea... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
August 07, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The review of global infrastructure developer Acciona’s bid to acquire the East Rockingham Waste to Energy Program, which is currently in receivership, has been put on hold in Australia, where th... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional narrowly avoided a possible formal intervention by Brazil’s competition authority after completing the sale of part of its stake in Usiminas just hours before the regulator's... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
The Federal Specialized Prosecutor’s Office at CADE responded to a request from Commissioner Camila Cabral Pires Alves regarding the deal review involving Grupo Bimbo acquiring Wickbold, recommending the IT Co... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
August 06, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Meta Platforms must face claims that its tracking pixel functions as an illegal “pen register” under California privacy law, a federal judge ruled today.
August 06, 2025 | Xu Yuan
North America
Tractor Supply Company, a retailer focusing on rural lifestyle, faces legal action by California’s privacy agency for its alleged failure to answer questions for an investigation into the company’s privacy practices.
August 06, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
With a jury trial less than two weeks away in what he described as a “massive data privacy class action” against Google with “billions of dollars” at stake, a California federal judge ruled on 20 pretrial moti... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
August 06, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Headwater Research cannot block an AT&T executive without patent licensing or valuation experience from testifying as a fact witness at trial next week, a US magistrate judge ruled, finding that his take on sp... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
Two recent criminal cases in China have put a spotlight on how the country protects trade secrets while managing employee mobility, as authorities step up enforcement against former employees accused of misapp... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
Vietnam is setting up long-awaited specialized intellectual property courts in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, aiming to modernize judicial enforcement and attract innovation-driven investment. But whether the new... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
August 07, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: A man has entered a guilty plan in a New Zealand court over a Ponzi scheme estimated to have involved almost $NZ4 million ($2.37 million). In a statement, the New Zealand Serious Fraud Office ann... (more story)
August 06, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US government opposed Turkish lender Halkbank's second attempt at getting the US Supreme Court to throw out, on foreign sovereign immunity grounds, an indictment alleging Iran sanctions viola... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
After racking up wins on Capitol Hill and at the White House in recent months, the cryptocurrency industry isn’t taking a mixed verdict in the trial of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm lying down. They’re v... (more story)
Financial Services View More
August 07, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Competition and dynamism in Australia’s banking sector could be improved by addressing impediments to market entry and exits, along with simplifying large investments for startups, according to a... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Neil Roland
North America
In another move to deregulate cryptocurrency assets as part of the White House's agenda, the US Securities and Exchange Commission said digital-asset deposit receipts intended as collateral or to generate retu... (more story)
August 06, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill, the co-founders of Samourai Wallet, pleaded guilty to participating in a conspiracy to operate a money transmitting business that processed crime proce... (more story)
Trade View More
August 07, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia
As trade tensions between China and the US persist, Beijing has released draft rules targeting transshipment, mirroring US efforts to crack down on circumvention of trade rules. China's Ministry of Commerce re... (more story)
August 07, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia, North America
India has strongly condemned the US for doubling its tariff rate to 50 percent on Indian goods in retaliation for India's purchases of Russian oil. India's Ministry of External Affairs called the move "unfair,... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Bradley Dress
North America
US President Donald Trump today announced a 100 percent tariff on semiconductor chips, joining other sectoral duties imposed by the US.
State Aid View More
August 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Interested parties have until Sep. 5 to provide input on technical updates of the Emissions Trading System state aid guidelines. The European Commission started the review to address the fact tha... (more story)
August 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: France has won approval for its 11 billion-euro plan to back the development of offshore wind energy, under a program that will run for 20 years, the European Commission said today. The measure w... (more story)
August 04, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: An unnamed citizen has filed a lawsuit against the Council of the EU, the institution that represents member states, according to a note disclosed by the institution. The plaintiff says that memb... (more story)
Energy View More
August 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany’s second offshore wind auction failed to attract any bids, highlighting the need to revise the country’s auction design, a lobby group said today. The two auctioned sites had a combined c... (more story)
August 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Carbon allowance traders can now use an AI-powered forecasting engine to trade emission allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System, UK company GeonatIQ said today. Despite the EU ETS market... (more story)
August 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Britain's financial watchdog has asked UK financial firms how it can streamline sustainability reporting rules. After a multi-firm review, the Financial Conduct Authority said that its rules have... (more story)
Technology View More
August 06, 2025 | Chris May and Khushita Vasant
North America
Legal precedent on Google’s unlawful monopolization of the US web search market doesn’t support US Federal Trade Commission antitrust litigation challenging Meta Platform’s dominance of personal social media n... (more story)
August 06, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms told a Washington DC federal court that the US Federal Trade Commission failed to prove that Meta has a monopoly over everything people do on Facebook and Instagram, which is defin... (more story)
August 06, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK government has announced an 88 million pound investment in youth services to cut screen time, framing it as a response to growing pressures children face online. The announcement comes as platforms face... (more story)