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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 21, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Trade
February 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker
North America
Antitrust
February 19, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
Antitrust View More
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Leading Italian broadband provider Fibercop and former incumbent telecom operator TIM have seen the Italian competition authority close its investigation into their supply and cooperation deal af... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Three fashion houses on Monday saw the European Commission issue summary versions of its recent decisions to fine them a total of more than 157 million euros, for placing restrictions on their re... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Details of an appeal by the chief executive of Belgian construction company Skellet, Ivo Swenters, against an EU lower court decision not to launch a probe into alleged collusion by sand supplier... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The British Equity Collecting Society (BECS) has exercised an optout for its audiovisual performers from the EU’s text and data mining exception, part of the EU’s Directive on Copyright in the Di... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Organizations worldwide must follow a set of four principles to guard against AI-generated image abuse, say a coalition of data protection authorities in a joint statement Monday. They must imple... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The AI sector faces potential risks to competition stemming from high levels of concentration in chip design and manufacturing, according to a paper published by the Portuguese antitrust regulato... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Gilead Sciences has agreed to buy US blood cancer drug developer Arcellx for an equity value of $7.8 billion. The transaction was approved by Gilead and Arcellx's boards of directors and is antic... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Opinions on Société LDC's acquisition of Green Label Holdings, a supplier of poultry products, are being sought by the UK antitrust regulator until March 9. The Competition and Markets Authority ... (more story)
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Getty Images and Shutterstock have received antitrust approval from the US Department of Justice. The companies said the DOJ has concluded its review of the companies’ proposed merger of equals a... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 23, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Adult website operator 8579 LLC has been issued a record £1.35 million fine by UK regulator Ofcom for failing to implement age checks required by the country's online safety law on several sites including craz... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Porn website operator 8579 LLC was fined £1.35 million by UK regulator Ofcom on Monday, for failing to use age checks as required by the Online Safety Act. The regulator also imposed a £50,000 pe... (more story)
February 21, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Internal Meta documents have offered a rare inside look at the company’s strategy around capturing the youth market.
Intellectual Property View More
February 23, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Intellectual Property on Monday created an ultra-fast-track review program for intellectual property applications submitted by startup companies in the fields of artific... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Freny Patel
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Self-evolving artificial intelligence that challenges the "human-centric" foundations of intellectual property law may potentially require a global overhaul of the World Trade Organization and Trade-Related As... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
On the heels of Linwei Ding’s conviction last month for criminal trade secret theft — and amid rising US tension with the Middle East — three Iranian nationals were indicted this week in California for stealin... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Geoffrey Magistrate, a resident of Limassol, Cyprus, was sentenced in the US to 18 months in prison for money laundering, the US Department of Justice said. Magistrate operated as a corporate ser... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge on Friday cleared all deadlines in the money laundering case against Peter Weinzierl, the former chief executive of a defunct Austrian bank, after his lawyers said he can better participate in his d... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Reality TV stars who acted as online “finfluencers” to illegally promote foreign-exchange trading via their personal Instagram accounts have pleaded guilty to charges brought by the UK’s financial regulator. T... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 23, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU lawmakers have set a timeline to negotiate a unified stance on a comprehensive proposal aimed at better integrating and supervising the bloc’s capital markets, with a draft common position to be issued in e... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Single Resolution Board on Monday published updated operational guidance for banks on separability — isolating parts of a bank in crisis — and transferability — transferring or selling them t... (more story)
February 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has defended its use of urgency clauses to bypass impact assessments in three legislative cases, including the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive which requires ... (more story)
Trade View More
February 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
Hungary has threatened to block the 20th sanctions package and the €90 billion European loan to Ukraine if oil transit does not resume soon through a pipeline damaged at the end of January. Hungary and Slovaki... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The president of Germany's industries federation has said the EU should, with the backing of the German government, swiftly approach the US to achieve clarity about trade tariffs and commercial r... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Key EU manufacturing sectors face a fourth delay to the bloc’s planned Industrial Accelerator Act, now set to be presented on March 4. Additional internal talks were needed to make the proposal “even more rock... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Be Smart has seen the EU publish a summary of the company's appeal, challenging an EU finding that Italian financing for Cineca — a non-profit consortium providing IT services — did not qualify a... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Greece has been granted EU state aid approval for €77 million ($90.8 million) in investment to restore and modernize the main stadium of the Olympic Athletic Centre of Athens, the European Commis... (more story)
February 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Cypriot measures to finance the construction of a soccer stadium in the city of Limassol, including preferential conditions for three professional football clubs, have been approved under EU stat... (more story)
Energy View More
February 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has updated EU heavy-duty vehicle rules to integrate onboard fuel and energy consumption monitoring devices into the type-approval system. Manufacturers must now demonstra... (more story)
February 19, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
French energy group TotalEnergies is on trial this week, as a Paris court is tasked with determining whether climate change falls within the scope of France's duty of vigilance law. In an opinion seen by MLex,... (more story)
February 19, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU ministers have agreed on adjustments to the market stability reserve for the bloc's new emissions trading system for buildings, road transport and other sectors, or ETS2, to improve price stab... (more story)
Technology View More
February 20, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
North America
US Federal Trade Commission merger challenges will henceforward be pursued exclusively in federal courts and will no longer be simultaneously presented to the agency’s in-house administrative law judges, Chair... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
The US Department of Justice and a coalition of 40 states suing Live Nation told a federal judge the company argues a “non-existent problem” in the run-up to trial with its bid for bifurcation — to try the DOJ... (more story)
February 20, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
In a strongly worded statement about "predatory social media companies," Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones said this week that he will enforce the state's one-hour daily limit on teens under age 16 for time ... (more story)