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Data Privacy and Security, Technology
February 24, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 23, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
February 21, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Antitrust View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Two suppliers of categorized drugs in Slovakia have been fined a total of nearly €7.8 million, for coordinating public-procurement activities. The two companies — Phoenix Zdravotnícke Zásobovanie... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy comparison website Check24 will no longer use price-parity clauses with regard to the brokerage of energy supply contracts, ending a probe led by the German antitrust authority. The commit... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese President Xi Jinping has linked efforts to regulate industrial capacity to with Beijing's broader campaign against destructive competition, calling for coordinated use of administrative and legal tools... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is aware of AI-generated content on TikTok calling for Poland to exit the EU, it said in a reply to a question by a Polish Member of the European Parliament on Monday. Krz... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
Three leading South Korean broadcasters have sued OpenAI, alleging the company unlawfully used their news content to train ChatGPT and seeking suspension of the alleged infringement as well as damages. The Kor... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top internet regulator disclosed details on its expansive enforcement campaign for 2025, detailing thousands of warnings, fines and shutdowns as authorities tightened control over online content, data ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 24, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Paramount Skydance confirmed that it made a counter proposal for Warner Bros. Discovery, but didn't provide any details. The revised proposal follows a period of engagement with WBD after it rece... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
The US Chamber of Commerce urged a federal appeals court to keep in place a lower court ruling blocking the Federal Trade Commission’s sweeping overhaul of US merger filing requirements, arguing the agency is ... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Warner Bros. Discovery confirmed that it has received a revised proposal from Paramount Skydance to acquire all of the outstanding shares of WBD common stock, following engagement with Paramount ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: DPD Poland has been fined over 11 million zlotys (around $3.1 million) for using external carriers without first concluding data processing agreements, the Polish data protection watchdog said Tu... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Online forum Reddit was fined just under £14.5 million in the UK on Tuesday, as the privacy regulator concluded it had unlawfully processed children’s personal information. The Information Commis... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Draft compromises on the establishment of a digital euro have been prepared by Fernando Navarrete Rojas, the lead negotiator in the European Parliament, according to documents obtained by MLex. T... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 24, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Unitree Robotics won a patent appeal at China’s top court, which upheld a finding of non-infringement and dismissed claims by Hangzhou Luweimei Daily Chemical over an “electronic dog” patent.
February 24, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s top three terrestrial broadcasters have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, seeking an injunction to halt alleged copyright infringement and claiming damages related to the artificial i... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
By sparing OpenAI from handing over internal conversations about its deletion of pirated books amassed for chatbot development, a US court has sent a reassuring message to artificial intelligence companies loo... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 23, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Los Angeles-area lawyer was sentenced to 87 months in US prison for receiving a $2.1 million bribe while serving as an officer of Nigeria’s state-owned oil company in connection with negotiatin... (more story)
February 23, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The director of plane parts supplier AOG Technics has been jailed for four years and eight months in a UK court for faking safety certificates for 60,000 aircraft components. Jose Alejandro Zamora Yrala had ad... (more story)
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)
Financial Services View More
February 24, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s financial watchdog cannot be solely responsible for deciding how much risk is acceptable to help the economy grow, the deputy chief of the Financial Conduct Authority has said in the latest comment in... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A package of measures to simplify sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements for companies by raising the thresholds for which they apply has been approved by EU ministers and will b... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
European finance ministers are due to debate the plan to better integrate and supervise the bloc’s capital markets on March 10, following a request by France and amid growing political pressure for faster prog... (more story)
Trade View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU imports of nitrogen fertilizers — as well as related materials such as ammonia and urea — would be exempt from duties for one year, under a European Commission proposal designed to lower costs... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Maroš Šefčovič, the EU's Trade Commissioner, on Monday evening attended the first inter-institutional talks with the aim to agree on upcoming EU steel measures addressing the negative effects of ... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The expiry of EU tariffs to tackle unfair subsidization of imports of continuous filament glass fiber products from China is being reviewed, the European Commission said Tuesday. The expiry revie... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Greece will be eligible for direct grants and tax advantages under a €400 million plan that has won European Commission state aid approval. The measure will back strategic investment... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Anna Ferrari and Jean Comte
Europe
The EU Commission is set to publish "soon" a revised draft of the General Block Exemption Regulation, the EU law for state aid exemption, a spokesperson for the regulator told MLex. The text will be put to pub... (more story)
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)
Energy View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Alliance of Energy Intensive Industries has warned that persistently high electricity costs are stalling electrification, investment and decarbonization. The AEII is urging the European Commi... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A report detailing the background to a legal challenge against the EU’s green investment rules has been issued by the EU’s General Court. Environmental groups are seeking the annulment of the com... (more story)
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)
Technology View More
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, ITVX, Disney+ and other video-on-demand streaming services will soon need to meet the same subtitling, audio description and signing requirements as traditional broad... (more story)
February 24, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
YouTube’s pursuit of a one-billion-hour watch-time goal came under scrutiny at a California state court Monday as a senior executive defended the metric as a measure of user value, not addiction.
February 24, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission has found that the Mobile Number Portability Act spurred more competitive behavior among mobile-service providers but delivered limited consumer switching. E... (more story)