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Artificial Intelligence
November 08, 2025 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust
November 07, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
November 07, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Antitrust View More
November 10, 2025 | Clayton Vickers
North America
US Magistrate Judge Daniel McLaughlin pushed attorneys for Linet and Hill-Rom to move expeditiously on the way to a likely 2027 antitrust trial, saying that both parties have used up the leeway they could expe... (more story)
November 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Visa and Mastercard reached a revised agreement to resolve merchants’ US antitrust claims over interchange fees. If approved, the new deal would allow merchants to choose whether to accept cards ... (more story)
November 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Index Exchange filed a US lawsuit accusing Google of abusing its monopoly over the markets for publisher ad servers and ad exchanges. “Despite offering better features and lower pricing than Goog... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
November 10, 2025 | Madeline Hughes
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission is beginning to receive responses to its probe on chatbots that will inform policy across the country, Chairman Andrew Ferguson said Monday.
November 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Ministry of Defence is set to pilot a new platform to simultaneously assess AI models to accelerate testing and adoption. The ministry’s Defence AI Centre has worked with UK AI company Adv... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission is delaying the launch of technical standards for the AI Act’s rules on general-purpose AI models, opting to first test the existing code of practice. The move could leave companies wit... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
November 10, 2025 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
GTCR and Surmodics can merge while they await a Federal Trade Commission administrative trial seeking to block their combination, a US federal judge ruled Monday.
November 10, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority is reviewing the proposed acquisition of Grupo Meddi by Alliança Saúde, with a particular focus on diagnostic imaging services across the state of Bahia. The deal will be subject... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Sara Brandstätter, Luca Bertuzzi and Lewis Crofts
Europe
A new crisis protocol for online services and guidance on the use of artificial intelligence in electoral processes is being prepared as part of a broader EU effort to counter information manipulation, accordi... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
November 10, 2025 | Júlia Tar
Europe, North America
Meta Platforms Ireland has been allowed to intervene in two joined appeals before the EU’s top court, supporting the European Commission in a dispute over alleged unlawful data transfers to the US via the Face... (more story)
November 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Restricting access to online content based on the user's location, or geoblocking, must be actively maintained by platforms that choose to implement it as a legal compliance measure, regulator Of... (more story)
November 10, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security has removed Chinese company Arrow China Electronics Trading Co., Ltd., and its affiliates, from an entity list. BIS said the company a... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
November 10, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit gave little indication Monday of their leanings in a dispute over an Idaho statute aimed at deterring baseless patent-infringement allegations.
November 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Europe, Latin America, North America
InterDigital filed patent infringement suits against Amazon in the US, Unified Patent Court, Brazil and Germany on Monday over licensing for video coding patents, adding to its ongoing licensing dispute with t... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Phone maker HMD Global’s appeal to Germany’s highest court in a dispute with VoiceAge over 4G technology licensing will see a new intervention from the European Commission, aiming to have legal questions resol... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
November 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A US judge declared a mistrial late Friday after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict in the trial of two brothers charged with stealing $25 million in cryptocurrency in 12 seconds by exploitin... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The former owners of PrivatBank must pay the Ukrainian lender more than $3 billion in damages and interest over a massive fraud, judges at the UK’s High Court said on Monday.
November 10, 2025 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A Chinese national convicted of laundering a record UK haul of Bitcoin attempted to buy London property worth millions of pounds and bought expensive jewelry after fleeing to the capital on a false passport, U... (more story)
Financial Services View More
November 10, 2025
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: Brazil’s Central Bank, or BC, has issued regulations governing the use of virtual assets, including cryptocurrencies, as well as the operation and authorization of institutions that participate i... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The EU’s temporary distributed ledger technology pilot is set to be extended until 2030 before the bloc's executive arm decides whether to integrate the program into relevant financial services legislation, ac... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
A compromise on a revamped EU securitization framework last week was presented to EU countries by Denmark, which is currently chairing legislative talks among EU member states. Denmark aims to strike a deal on... (more story)
Trade View More
November 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Asia, North America
The US government formally suspended an export-controls rule, aimed largely at China, for a year as part of a trade deal negotiated during President Donald Trump’s recent trip to Asia. When in effect, the rule... (more story)
November 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security delayed new export control restrictions called the Affiliates Rule for roughly a year, until Nov. 9, 2026, after the US and China reac... (more story)
November 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU and Ecuador have begun negotiations on a sustainable investment facilitation agreement, the European Commission said Monday. An agreement would make it easier for EU businesses to invest a... (more story)
State Aid View More
November 06, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved a €700 million Spanish plan to support investments in net-zero technology production. The program, open to companies across Spain until the end of 2028, will ... (more story)
November 05, 2025 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The low-cost airline used a meeting with European Commission officials to reiterate arguments that the French and German governments should recoup state aid disbursed to Air France-KLM and Deutsche Lufthansa d... (more story)
November 05, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Chinese rail company CRRC is under investigation at the European Commission, on suspicion that its inclusion in a bid to construct part of the metro system in Lisbon may have benefited from forei... (more story)
Energy View More
November 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A blackout in North Macedonia on May 18 this year was triggered by overvoltage that caused a separation between the country’s transmission networks, according to an expert panel led by the Europe... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi
Europe
Europe’s economy should reach 90 percent reductions in greenhouse gas emissions by 2040, according to the European Parliament’s environment committee, which voted on Monday on amending the European Commission’... (more story)
November 10, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain’s assessment of energy security of supply for 2030 should take a more balanced approach to projected storage capacity and gas generation, the EU energy regulator ACER said in a statement on... (more story)
Technology View More
November 10, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Social media platform X, formerly Twitter, may soon face a final decision under the EU's content moderation rules as the EU regulator said it plans to "advance fast" in the nearly 2-year-old investigation. Par... (more story)
November 10, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Australia is just a month away from enforcing the world's first social media restrictions for children under 16. Despite the fast-approaching deadline, concerns persist about the reliability of age-assurance t... (more story)
November 10, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Social-media platforms that will be affected by Australia’s social-media ban for under-16s, which will come into effect on Dec. 12, have had 12 months to prepare and must now accept the onus of i... (more story)