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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
January 15, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 15, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Antitrust View More
January 17, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Google asked a US federal court Friday to stay certain provisions of the final judgment in a government lawsuit over its internet search monopoly pending an appeal of the court’s liability and remedies rulings... (more story)
January 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Google asked a US federal court to stay certain provisions of the final judgment in an internet search monopolization lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice pending an appeal of the cour... (more story)
January 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Google told a US federal court it intends to appeal a ruling in an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Department of Justice over its Internet search monopoly. Google will appeal the August 2024 lia... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 17, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The artificial intelligence company run by tech billionaire Elon Musk, xAI, has asked a federal judge to block enforcement of California’s new AI transparency law, arguing it would force the comp... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Lawmakers from the political group of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva are seeking to place the country among jurisdictions worldwide that are taking action against X’s Grok AI chatbot.
January 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: California Attorney General Rob Bonta has sent a cease-and-desist letter to xAI demanding that the company stop creating and distributing intimate, nonconsensual deepfake images and child sexual ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 16, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
News outlets Nexstar Media and Tegna, which operate locally-focused radio and television news stations in towns and cities throughout the US, told the US Federal Communications Commission that their proposed $... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Clayton Vickers, Chris May, Alex Wilts and Ilana Kowarski
North America
US state antitrust enforcers are in the early stages of examining the privacy implications of mergers and market competition.
January 16, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
The US Surface Transportation Board announced Friday that the merger application submitted by Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern was incomplete, resulting in rejection of the application. The board highlighted... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 17, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
California is turning to a device-level “age signal” law as it prepares to implement age verification, with supporters arguing that AB 1043 avoids the pitfalls that have drawn legal and privacy fire in other s... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
The US Supreme Court has agreed to review the constitutionality of geofencing — technology that allows platforms like Google to record precise location data and create a list of users within a given geographic... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
A jury will have to decide just how unfair and deceptive Meta Platforms' conduct was after a New Mexico judge denied multiple motions for summary judgement Friday.
Intellectual Property View More
January 16, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Despite widespread agreement on the need to develop robust strategic, technical and certification standards, a key segment of the innovation ecosphere remains sidelined.
January 16, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
As fewer patent challengers look to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the inter partes review (IPR) procedure, more are instead petitioning for ex parte reexamination. That brings its own strategic advanta... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo, Henrique Santiago and Sara Brandstätter
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
The outcry over the use of X’s Grok chatbot to create sexualized deepfakes has provided a global stress-test of online safety laws and highlighted how national legal frameworks are shaping different approaches... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 16, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission is "following up on two recently received leads" on potential addresses in its attempts to serve former Azure Power director Cyril Cabanes with a subpoen... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Russel Gerrity, a consultant who worked on a Chariot Oil & Gas project, has been fined almost £310,000 for insider trading by the UK’s financial regulator. The experienced oil professional used inside informat... (more story)
January 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating 21 individuals and entities and identifying one vessel that have transferred oil products, procured weapons and dual-use e... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 17, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US banking regulators should reduce the frequency and scope of resolution plans required of banks, said Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould. These "living wills," which were mandated by the 2010 Dodd-Fr... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The Single Resolution Board — the EU's banking crisis-management authority — has dropped an appeal at an EU court against a decision by the bloc’s privacy watchdog that it must inform citizens about data proce... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg, Jr. and New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie announced the introduction of the CRYPTO Act to create a new law that makes operating a virtual currency b... (more story)
Trade View More
January 16, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The US and Israel agreed to a cooperation agreement to collaborate on critical technologies such as artificial intelligence, advanced computing and semiconductors, according to a statement from t... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
After falling short of a formal bilateral trade agreement last year, US and Indian representatives have resumed talks in the new year. But outstanding issues remain, including US tariffs and Indian agriculture.
January 16, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to impose tariffs on any countries that opposed his push to seize Greenland, a semi-autonomous Arctic island overseen by Denmark that his administration has increasi... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Funding made by Durham County Council — a city in northern England — over tourist attractions has been challenged under UK subsidy rules, according to the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The appella... (more story)
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)
Energy View More
January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
The Department of Justice's Antitrust Division secured victory against a Florida business owner who was found guilty of 34 counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and forgery by a federal jury in Miami, MLex has learned.
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A bipartisan group of US lawmakers released legislation in the House of Representatives and the Senate to secure American access to critical minerals. The Securing Essential and Critical US Resou... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The American Institute in Taiwan and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the US signed a trade agreement which includes commitments by Taiwanese semiconductor enterprises to... (more story)
Technology View More
January 16, 2026
Latin America
MLex Summary: Lawmakers from the Workers’ Party (PT) filed a complaint with the Federal Prosecution Office in the Federal District requesting the opening of an investigation into X’s Grok AI chatbot over the d... (more story)
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: TikTok said it will roll out enhanced underage-detection technology in Europe in the coming weeks as part of its age assurance approach, using on-platform signals and specialist human review foll... (more story)
January 16, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Green lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky criticized the European Commission for failing to act decisively against X’s AI chatbot Grok after it was used to generate non-consensual sexual images. He urged temporary susp... (more story)