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Trade
January 09, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
Antitrust, Intellectual Property
January 09, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 09, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Antitrust View More
January 12, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority has ordered WhatsApp owner Meta to suspend new contractual terms that prohibit third-party AI providers from using the WhatsApp Business API. The decision follows a complaint fil... (more story)
January 12, 2026
Europe
MLex summary: The Brazilian competition authority announced Monday that its Superintendence has launched an administrative inquiry of Meta to investigate alleged abuse of dominant position related to new Whats... (more story)
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Ross Intelligence filed a reply brief in support of a US appeals court reversing a judgment in favor of Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement of certain Westlaw headnotes and against R... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Common Sense Media and Open AI announced their joint backing of the Parents & Kids Safe AI Act, a California ballot initiative billed as the most comprehensive youth AI safety measure in the US, ... (more story)
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced new legislation aimed at protecting children from online predators, scammers and harmful artificial intelligence chatbots integrated on online platforms. ... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK will bring into force this week new criminal offenses covering the creation or request of non-consensual intimate images, and designate them as priority illegal content under the Online Safety Act, tech... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 12, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
United Airlines seeks to buy a $100 million minority stake in Brazilian airline Azul Linhas Aéreas Brasileiras. Think tank IPS Consumo requested to participate in the review after CADE’s Superintendence uncond... (more story)
January 12, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump shared an opinion article which criticizes streaming platform Netflix's proposed acquisition of the Warner Bros Discovery, which owns HBO and CNN. The article is entitle... (more story)
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission took a victory lap Monday after securing a preliminary injunction to block Edwards Lifesciences from acquiring rival JenaValve Technology. “This is a major victory... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 12, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
TikTok must face claims brought by Indiana that it failed to disclose truthfully harmful content, addictive features and connections to China, a state judge ruled.
January 12, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Online advertising trade association IAB Europe has secured a legal victory against complying with a Belgian Data Protection Authority action plan after a Belgian appeal court found the place aspects of an ori... (more story)
January 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Digi Spain Telecom has received a €120,000 fine for breaching the European General Data Protection Regulation, the Spanish Data Protection Agency said on Monday. The company had unlawfully proces... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 12, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Europe, North America
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday will hold a hearing on an antisuit injunction request by BMW with wide-ranging ramifications for US patent owners. Although Onesta IP last week said it “does not intend” to see... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Cloudflare is threatening to withdraw from Italy after the communications regulator fined it €14 million for failing to block access to piracy websites under the “Piracy Shield” regime. CEO Matthew Prince crit... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Access Advance voiced disappointment but said it respects a ruling by China’s highest court upholding jurisdiction over an antitrust lawsuit brought by Zhejiang Dahua Technology, while remaining confident in t... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe, North America
The US Supreme Court on Monday remanded a corruption case against a former 21st Century Fox executive and a sports marketing company so the government can dismiss the charges. The decision comes as the US is s... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko faces a “tentative” US trial date in July on corruption charges stemming from his alleged role in a bribery scheme in Ghana. The trial is expected to last around two we... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A British businessman wanted in South Africa on fraud, corruption and money laundering charges faces deportation after a judge on Monday overturned a ruling blocking his move there.
Financial Services View More
January 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has drawn plaudits for taking a stand on the threat to the central bank’s independence after abdicating a role on a pending attempt by President Trump to remove board mem... (more story)
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Capital One agreed to pay $425 million to settle claims that it cheated consumers out of higher interest payments on their savings accounts, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced. Jam... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the agency was served by the US Justice Department with grand jury subpoenas threatening a criminal indictment in connection with Powell’s congressional testimo... (more story)
Trade View More
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform that the US will apply 25 percent tariffs to any nation doing business with Iran. The Middle Eastern nation’s top trading pa... (more story)
January 12, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria, Egypt, and Vietnam is being provided countervailable subsidies.
January 12, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Chinese electric vehicle exporters may avoid EU anti-subsidy duties by committing to minimum export prices under a framework published on Monday. The European Commission guidance explains how price undertaking... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 09, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has clarified how it will analyze market distortions stemming from subsidies outside of the EU, and how it will balance those against any potential positive effects. In ne... (more story)
January 09, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Asia, Europe
Companies backed by subsidies from countries such as China, Saudi Arabia and Russia have received greater clarity on how the European Commission will apply rules that police their M&A activity and procurement ... (more story)
January 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Thailand has set out a long-term national strategy to expand its semiconductor and advanced electronics industry, with a focus on power semiconductors, sensors, photonics, discrete devices and an... (more story)
Energy View More
January 08, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Details on an exemption from the EU’s carbon border tax for fertilizer imports were published Thursday by the European Commission. The regulator says the exemption could be triggered under an eme... (more story)
January 08, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The US decision to withdraw from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change is “regrettable and unfortunate,” EU climate chief Wopke Hoekstra said on Thursday. He said support for internationa... (more story)
January 08, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China has convened a second meeting with power and energy-storage battery makers in just over six weeks to steer the sector toward more orderly competition, widening its effort into a four-agency joint session... (more story)
Technology View More
January 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: With pressure increasing on Congress to repeal or change Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, the Computer and Communications Industry Association has released a report claiming that a ... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Elon Musk’s X has been warned by the EU’s top digital official on Monday that it must move “quickly” to "fix" its Grok AI chatbot that has been used to create non-consensual intimate images or face the “full u... (more story)
January 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: US social media platforms — including X, Meta and YouTube — are at the center of a complaint to the European Ombudsman after campaign group Ekō accused EU institutions of improperly promoting the... (more story)