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January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Artificial Intelligence
January 14, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Energy, Technology, Trade
January 14, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
January 15, 2026 | Anna Ferrari
Europe
Packaging group Imballaggi Piemontesi has lost its EU court challenge to an Italian cardboard cartel fine. EU judges ruled that deadlines for concluding proceedings before a competition authority are not manda... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Turkish online marketplace Sahibinden Bilgi Teknolojileri has offered commitments to allay the competition authority's concerns that it abused its market power by combining user data it obtained ... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Packaging company Imballaggi Piemontesi has failed to convince EU judges that deadlines for concluding proceedings before a competition authority are mandatory under EU law. The judges ruled on T... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 15, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU lawmakers are backing voluntary AI licensing deals in a non-binding report on copyright and generative AI, signaling how creators should be paid as the European Commission prepares a broader copyright revie... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
X's move to suspend and geoblock certain image editing features on Grok has been welcomed by the UK government as the country’s online regulator said it was “working round the clock” on its investigation into ... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: LG AI Research, SK Telecom and Upstage have advanced to the second stage of South Korea’s “independent AI foundation model” project after the science ministry narrowed five elite teams to three. ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Aramark must unwind its acquisition of Entier, the UK antitrust regulator said after concluding that the deal will harm competition in the market for offshore catering and facilities management. ... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A frozen vegetables joint venture between Belgian food group Greenyard and French cooperative Eureden has received clearance from the French competition authority, which also approved a merger be... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Salzillo Servicios Funerarios has won approval from the Spanish competition authority to acquire its rival Lázaro Soto, including three of the target's funeral parlors and a crematorium in southe... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Joi.com, an AI companion website run by Novi, is being investigated by Ofcom over whether it has failed to prevent children from accessing pornographic content, the UK online safety regulator sai... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s Information Commissioner Office has updated its guidance on international data transfers, so as to make compliance easier, the regulator said on Thursday. The update introduces a three-s... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Snapchat has changed how it assesses the risk of illegal content appearing on its platform after an intervention by Ofcom, the UK online safety regulator said on Thursday. Ofcom had raised concer... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 15, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Japan’s IP High Court upheld the invalidation of two alcohol-related trademarks owned by a popular ramen chain, finding both marks confusingly similar to a third party’s earlier registration despite difference... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Proven patent infringement is no guarantee of victory in an intellectual property dispute involving industry standards.. In a landmark ruling, China’s highest court drew a clear red line between abusive assert... (more story)
January 14, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America, Oceania
The Motion Picture Association and intellectual property policy experts warned the US House on Tuesday that media tax, ownership and reporting requirements in Canada and Australia violate trade agreements and ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 14, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Swedish lender Swedbank said the US Justice Department has closed a money laundering investigation without filing charges, and that a probe by the New York State Department of Financial Services continues.
January 14, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The past management of Home REIT, a UK-listed social housing company, is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office as part of a probe into suspected bribery and fraud involving £300 million. The SFO said... (more story)
January 13, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division had a “markedly slower” year in fiscal 2025 compared to the year before and the lowest level of activity in 10 years, a private analysis by the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 15, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The Bank of England made a “capital mistake” in reducing the amount of capital that banks need to sustain themselves during a crisis, according to John Vickers and David Aikman — two former BOE officials who w... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Thursday opened consultations on barriers facing venture and growth capital funds and possible solutions. One targets industry and public stakeholders, the other the ge... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Mārtiņš Kazāks of Latvia and Mário Centeno of Portugal have emerged as the preferred candidates for the role of European Central Bank vice-president, following informal exchanges held on Wednesda... (more story)
Trade View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU leaders will press to deepen trade ties and wrap up the bloc’s trade deal with India, when European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meet ... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
China has moved to tighten control over technology supply chains amid a push for self-sufficiency and rising geopolitical tensions, hitting potential buyers of Nvidia’s H200 chips with a customs notice banning... (more story)
January 14, 2026
North America
MLex summary: President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation directing his Cabinet to negotiate trade deals with countries on processed critical minerals and derivative products and to explore potential pric... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to spend €200 million to support the generation of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives in Canada has secured EU state aid approval, the European Commission said Thursday. The re... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has released its 2025 State Aid Scoreboard, showing that in 2024, EU countries spent 90 percent of their state funds on backing key EU priorities. More funds were channele... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spanish private-post association Asempre and logistics organization UNO have lost their legal challenge against their earlier court loss over the European Commission's 2020 approval of Spanish ai... (more story)
Energy View More
January 14, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Global temperatures in 2025 were the third-highest on record, while Europe also experienced its third-warmest year, according to the latest EU’s Copernicus climate report. Copernicus warned curre... (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 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)
Technology View More
January 15, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Major companies in telecommunications, retail, and other sectors that handle large volumes of personal data will face advance inspections by South Korea's privacy regulator as part of its shift from reactive p... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A group of federal appellate judges zeroed in on whether California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code can be blocked in full based on the law’s threshold test for services “likely to be accessed by children.”
January 14, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
EU social-media age restrictions, including a potential ban for young users, will be discussed by an expert panel drawn from 20 scientists, physicians and other academics as well as advocacy professionals, acc... (more story)