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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 | Clayton Vickers and Khushita Vasant
North America
Amazon told a US judge Thursday that the claims of Michael Wilder, an e-book purchaser and once-potential antitrust class action representative, should be dismissed with prejudice because of questions over his... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission is “very carefully monitoring” the key inputs underlying artificial intelligence to ensure competition in the sector remains robust, a senior agency official said Thursday.
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.
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 15, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
OpenAI has over-redacted 20 million ChatGPT user conversations in a manner that is “frankly mindboggling” and the company must quickly redo its work with a lighter touch, US Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang said T... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, Europe, North America
The parameters of permissible copyright use in AI training slowly came into focus in 2025 but how rightsholders are gaining the much-needed clarity differ vastly by region. In the new year look to countries l... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne announced his office is expanding an investigation into X Corp. following reports that its chatbot, Grok, is being used to create explicit images of individuals... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Boston Scientific Corp. said it will acquire Penumbra Inc. in a cash and stock deal with an enterprise value of approximately $14.5 billion. The merger gives Boston Scientific entry into new, fas... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Boston Scientific and Penumbra will file their Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notifications within 20 business days of the date of their merger agreement, dated Jan. 15, according to a securities fi... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority denied an appeal by investment fund Phoenix to participate in a review of Sabesp’s acquisition of EMAE shares in the basic sanitation sector, maintaining the agency's uncondition... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Almost 90 percent of adults in Germany, Italy and Poland support the proposed EU legislation aimed at tackling online child sexual abuse material, according to survey data released on Friday. The... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Lawyers for Meta Platforms told a federal judge in California that as a long-delayed shareholder suit over Facebook's Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal moves toward trial, shareholders shouldn't be allowed t... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Senate is focusing on banning the use of social media on school-provided devices as it contemplates other ways to regulate the use of social media by youth.
Intellectual Property View More
January 15, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
Asia, Europe, North America
January ushered in a flurry of dealmaking in the tech space, but the biggest moves of the new year thus far are being made in the fight against cancer.
January 15, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A "ChatGPT moment" — when artificial intelligence went from theory to reality — is on the horizon for quantum, an expert tells MLex. Plans to reauthorize the National Quantum Initiative for another five years ... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Warner Bros. is arguing that the planned roll out of a new streaming service and its impending merger with Netflix mean that a dispute with Nokia over video coding patents needs to be heard sooner than planned... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Sanjay Kaushik, of India, was sentenced in the US to 30 months in prison after pleading guilty to his role in a scheme to export controlled aviation components with dual civilian and military app... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Senator Tim Scott, chair of the Senate Banking Committee, deferred consideration of amendments to a draft bill that would create a regulatory edifice for cryptocurrencies, shortly after Coinbase CEO Brian Arms... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The French Senate on Wednesday passed a law granting stronger legal protections to in-house lawyers without amending the text adopted by the lower chamber, or National Assembly. The text is thus ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Board of Directors will meet on Jan. 22 to consider amendments to its guidelines for appeals of material supervisory determinations.
January 15, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The biggest threat to European banks' competitiveness remains the fragmentation of the European market rather than the capital rules imposed by the bloc, said European Central Bank Vice President Luis de Guind... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Veteran German center-right lawmaker Markus Ferber will lead talks in the European Parliament on the so-called “master regulation" section of a jumbo EU legislative package designed to better integrate and sup... (more story)
Trade View More
January 15, 2026
North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The US House Select Committee on China released a new report detailing Chinese efforts to monopolize fishing worldwide and to engage in what lawmakers described as systematic illegal, unreported ... (more story)
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 US International Trade Commission voted that Canadian imports of fresh mushrooms subsidized by the Canadian government materially injure the US industry. Commissioners David Johanson and Jaso... (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
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)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU applied on Thursday a new automatic system to adjust the price limit on Russian crude oil, lowering it to $44.10 per barrel. The change takes effect from Feb. 1, with older contracts allow... (more story)
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)
Technology View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Arcom, France’s digital services regulator, warned Thursday that Elon Musk's platform X is liable if it fails to act on reports of nonconsensual sexual images or CSAM generated by its AI tool Gro... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK's data protection regulator plans to run a monitoring program this year to drive adoption of stronger age assurance measures, particularly targeting platforms that rely solely on self-declaration, a sen... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A cross-party coalition of EU lawmakers is calling for a ban on AI-powered nudity applications in the EU, following a backlash on X's AI model Grok generating non-consensual intimate images and c... (more story)