Economists for Mastercard and Australia’s competition regulator clashed in court Friday over how to define markets in modern payments systems, as an antitrust trial over alleged misuse of market power continue... (more story)

An Australian judge has ordered the delay of any expansion of the Australian class actions against Apple and Google over app-store commissions, putting the proposed new claims and group members on hold while a... (more story)

Indonesia’s competition regulator has urged a Jakarta court to reject appeals filed by 87 online lenders against its record interest-rate cartel ruling. The regulator argued that the lenders cannot rely on all... (more story)

MLex Summary: A US magistrate judge overseeing discovery in US copyright lawsuits against OpenAI said the company must hand over deposition transcripts from the trial over Elon Musk’s claims that OpenAI violat... (more story)

From space-based AI data centers to unvarnished disclosures about a wide spectrum of legal and regulatory risk around xAI's Grok chatbot, the S-1 securities filing by SpaceX in advance of its initial public st... (more story)

A revised version of the bipartisan NO FAKES Act, introduced Wednesday, would create a personal property right in an individual’s digital likeness, allowing people to better control and license the use of thei... (more story)

Europe's drive for greater economic self-reliance will be on top of the agenda for Ireland, as chair of EU ministers' meetings in the second half of this year, the country's Trade Minister Helen McEntee said F... (more story)

MLex Summary: Developing countries will receive reduced or zero EU tariffs under revised Generalized Scheme of Preferences rules, the Council of the EU, the body representing the bloc’s governments, has said. ... (more story)

MLex Summary: Customs tariffs on EU imports of nitrogen-based fertilizers used in agricultural production will be suspended for one year to lower costs for farmers and the industry, the Council of the EU, the ... (more story)

MLex Summary: X’s Digital Services Act fine decision has been published by the European Commission, months after the document first surfaced from the US House Judiciary Committee. The 181-page decision details... (more story)

MLex Summary: Malaysia’s communications regulator has issued a statutory demand to TikTok over alleged failures to promptly remove offensive and defamatory content targeting the Malaysian Royal Institution, in... (more story)

Live Nation should be ordered to divest its wholly owned subsidiary Ticketmaster so that competition can be restored for primary ticketing contracts with major concert venues, 33 states and the District of Col... (more story)