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FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson.

Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

April 24, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

Asia, North America, Oceania

US FTC Chairman Ferguson distances himself from predecessor Khan

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security

April 24, 2025 | Amy Miller and Emma Whitford

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

OpenAI's Altman pitches own product as privacy solution for new AI tools
The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Financial Services

April 24, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

New UK bank resolution law nears completion after key parliamentary step

Antitrust View More

Social media companies' content moderation attacked by US FTC's Ferguson

April 25, 2025 | Matthew Newman, Mike Swift and Madeline Hughes

Europe,North America

Andrew Ferguson, chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, told a global gathering of data protection watchdogs this week that the FTC is concerned about censorship by social media companies, MLex understands.... (more story)

OptumRx asks US judge to compel arbitration of pharmacies' US antitrust claims

April 25, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: OptumRx told a US judge that a proposed plaintiff class of pharmacies' US antitrust claims alleging an unlawful tying arrangement should not proceed in court because the pharmacies had contracts ... (more story)

US FTC staff offered another round of deferred resignations, buyouts

April 25, 2025 | Chris May

North America

US Federal Trade Commission employees have been offered three potential ways to cut short their employment at the nation’s competition and consumer protection watchdog, according to agency memoranda seen by MLex.

Artificial Intelligence View More

IGN, Everyday Health publisher sues OpenAI in US for copyright infringement

April 25, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

Ziff Davis, publisher of sites including IGN, Everyday Health, CNET, Mashable and PCMag, sued OpenAI for copyright infringement in the District of Delaware yesterday, accusing the artificial intelligence compa... (more story)

OpenAI sued again in US for copyright infringement, this time by Ziff Davis

April 25, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Publisher Ziff Davis, owner of IGN, Everyday Health and other web magazines, filed suit yesterday against OpenAI in the District of Delaware alleging the artificial intelligence company infringed... (more story)

Use of AI in the workplace being closely scrutinized

April 25, 2025 | Amy Miller

Africa,Asia,Europe,Latin America,Middle East,North America,Oceania

Scrutiny is growing over how companies use artificial intelligence tools in the workplace as bots are inundating companies with resumes, and workers are increasingly concerned about their privacy and surveilla... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Amcor-Berry deal gets EU approval, will close in days

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Packaging maker Amcor said that it expects to close its acquisition of US rival Berry Global on April 30, after receiving approval from the EU's merger regulator.

US state antitrust laws poised to heighten regulatory hurdles for M&A

April 25, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

North America

US states are ramping up antitrust enforcement, with several enacting broader antitrust laws and new requirements for companies to provide advance notice of proposed transactions. While these state-specific la... (more story)

ServiceNow to pull, refile US paperwork for Moveworks buy; no more questions from CMA

April 25, 2025 | Flavia Fortes

Europe, North America

Software maker ServiceNow said that it will withdraw its US merger paperwork for the acquisition of artificial intelligence firm Moveworks by April 30, and it plans to refile no later than May 2. The company a... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Clearview AI may face enforcement of Italian privacy watchdog's GDPR decision

April 25, 2025 | Matthew Newman

Europe, North America

Clearview AI, a US company that provides facial recognition software to law enforcement in the US, may be forced to comply with a data-deletion order by Italy's data protection authority, a senior official at ... (more story)

Data brokers still face US regulatory scrutiny, but from whom?

April 25, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Data brokers are likely to continue facing scrutiny from US regulators during the Trump administration. But given the huge uncertainty about the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and to some ... (more story)

Missouri drops out of social media addiction litigation against Meta

April 25, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US state of Missouri has dismissed its complaint alleging that Meta Platforms' addictive social media apps contributed to the deterioration of the mental health of young users, according to a... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Space may be the next trademark frontier, INTA head Bradley says

April 25, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

As commercial space ventures gain traction, trademark experts are exploring how intellectual property systems might adapt to activity beyond Earth. International Trademark Association President Elisabeth Stewa... (more story)

UPC appeal body gives Nicoventures limited document access in Juul-Njoy patent cases

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Unified Patent Court's Court of Appeal granted Nicoventures access to selected documents in three patent disputes between Juul Labs and Njoy concerning European patents 3,430,921, 3,504,991, ... (more story)

Japan court backs international patent rejection over late translation

April 25, 2025 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

The Tokyo District Court has affirmed the Japan Patent Office’s decision to reject an international patent examination request due to a delay in submitting the required Japanese translation. The ruling highlig... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US SEC continues to try to serve Adanis in bribery case

April 25, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission said in a status report that the agency is continuing its efforts to serve Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his nephew, Sagar Adani, in its lawsuit al... (more story)

Damen faces Dutch bribery and Russian sanctions charges

April 25, 2025 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Units of Dutch conglomerate Damen are set to be charged with bribery, sanctions evasion, fraud and money laundering, prosecutors in the Netherlands said today. Damen Shipyards has been under investigation by t... (more story)

Thailand to elevate anti-scam center into full department

April 25, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, or MDES, plans to upgrade its Anti-Online Scam Operation Center into a full department to strengthen its authority and accountability in tackling onli... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Warren presses US SEC on preventing undue political influence with Trump Media plan

April 25, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Senator Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, wrote to Paul Atkins, the newly sworn-in chair of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, asking how the agency plan... (more story)

Top UK regulator sees no Trump-induced 'race to the bottom' on financial rules

April 25, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe, North America

The chief of the Financial Conduct Authority said in a TV interview on Friday said he does not fear a "race to the bottom" prompted by Donald Trump's administration when it comes to deregulation of the financi... (more story)

Banking sector sees key indicators on climate risk published

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority, the EU body overseeing the banking sector to support financial stability, today released a monitoring tool on Environmental, Social and Governance-related risk acr... (more story)

Trade View More

Brazil pursuing negotiation, rather than conflict in trade dispute with US

April 25, 2025 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America, North America

The Lula administration has been following a path that has established Brazil as a prominent global diplomat. Flavia Loss de Araujo, a professor of International Relations at the Instituto Mauá de Tecnologia, ... (more story)

USTR digital trade barrier claims a concern, South Korean official says

April 25, 2025 | Bradley Dress and Mike Swift

Asia, North America

A top South Korean official raised concerns about the US Trade Representative’s claims that his country has several digital trade barriers and said he plans to discuss the issue this week while in Washington. 

Biosafety group urges US Commerce for export controls on nucleic acids

April 25, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

The head of a major biosafety group told a Commerce Department advisory committee today that enhanced screening of synthetic nucleic acids is needed for compliance with export controls, warning of the danger o... (more story)

State Aid View More

Romanian multimodal freight transport study open for feedback

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Romanian antitrust authority has said that ensuring a balanced tax regime for all transport modes, to avoid favoring one transport means over less-polluting options, is one of the suggestions... (more story)

EU Commission takes stock of 2024 competition activity, publishes report

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Last year, the European Commission continued to "vigorously enforce" EU competition rules in the fields of antitrust, merger and state aid control, including its two internal market tools, the Di... (more story)

Ryanair re-appeals Covid subsidies to Air France-KLM

April 24, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Europe

The billions of euros handed to Air France and KLM during the coronavirus pandemic face further scrutiny from EU judges, after Ryanair filed an appeal against the state aid regulator’s latest approval for the ... (more story)

Energy View More

ENI awarded GBP2 billion for carbon capture and storage project in the UK

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Italian oil and gas company ENI closed a deal worth 2 billion pounds with the UK Government for its Liverpool Bay Carbon Capture and Storage project. The sum will finance supply chain contrac... (more story)

UK transition finance risks losing focus amid competing pressures

April 25, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

The UK's efforts to become a global leader in transition finance may be hindered by competing government priorities, warns Vanessa Havard-Williams, who recently chaired the Transition Finance Market Review. Th... (more story)

Entso-E urged to improve its electricity balancing data

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Entso-E — the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity — has been found to be reporting insufficient data in monitoring balancing markets. In such markets, operators make... (more story)

Technology View More

US judge sets evidentiary hearing for remedies in Google adtech monopoly suit

April 25, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US District Judge Leonie Brinkema has scheduled an evidentiary hearing on May 2 regarding equitable remedies to be imposed in the US Department of Justice's lawsuit against Google over illegal mo... (more story)

Suicide forum withdraws from UK due to online safety law, tech minister says

April 25, 2025 | Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

A suicide discussion forum has made its site unavailable to UK users and another site is under investigation for potential violation of the Online Safety Act, the UK technology minister said. Ofcom's Peter Kyl... (more story)

EU services integrating DeepSeek could be violating DSA’s freedom-of-expression rules

April 25, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Integrating DeepSeek models into a platform could put providers in violation of the EU’s Digital Services Act, according to an answer to European lawmakers by EU digital chief Henna Virkkunen. Th... (more story)