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Data Privacy and Security
February 25, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
February 25, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
February 24, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America
Antitrust View More
February 26, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Meta Platforms was correctly targeted by information requests from antitrust enforcers and should lose its bid to overturn an EU court ruling that upheld their legality, according to an opinion for the Court o... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms should lose its legal challenges to information requests by the European Commission that were made in the context of antitrust probes relating to Facebook Marketplace and data, a c... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Airlines including Air Canada, Cargolux and Air France-KLM have lost a long-running battle against the European Commission over their involvement in a cartel related to the prices of air freight. Only the Nord... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 26, 2026
Asia, Europe, North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI on Wednesday published its latest report on malicious uses of its AI models, detailing attempts that it said it disrupted. They included China’s “covert influence operations” to silence cr... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Hoa Dinh
Asia
Starting March 1, financial institutions in Vietnam will be subject to new regulations around the use of artificial intelligence systems, including requirements to conduct pre-use security checks, classify ris... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission Japan released a summary late Wednesday of its Feb. 2 roundtable, where they discussed Japan’s slow adoption of privacy-enhancing technologies, despite the fa... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s antitrust authority on Thursday conditionally cleared Toyota Motor’s and Daimler Truck’s plan to combine their truck and bus subsidiaries, Hino Motors and Mitsubishi Fuso Truck and Bus. T... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Dutch antitrust authority has cleared Kyndryl's acquisition of IT service provider Solvinity, saying it didn't see any competition problems emerging or increasing as a result of the transact... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: The proposal by CTC Precast, trading as Civilmart, to acquire 100 percent of the issued share capital in Taylex Group Holding will be reviewed by Australia’s antitrust watchdog. In a statement on... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 26, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
A study following more than 4,000 Australian children has begun to evaluate how the country’s new under-16 social-media restrictions are working in practice, the online safety regulator announced. In a stateme... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Personal Information Protection Commission on Thursday said it issued administrative guidance to Tokorozawa City in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, after a former municipal tax offici... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Telegram is being monitored by the Philippines’ Department of Information and Communications Technology and the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Council over rising reports of illegal ac... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 26, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will publish on Thursday a guidebook on the fair use of copyrighted works for the training of generative artificial intelligence syst... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The Unified Patent Court upheld Austrian packaging manufacturer Messerle’s cardboard tray patent, but dismissed its infringement claim against Sabert’s Tray2Go products. Judges in the Vienna division rejected ... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A Chinese court has raised damages in a case involving the unauthorized adaptation of a horror novel into an escape-room venue, signaling a willingness to push statutory awards higher when actual losses and in... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 25, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Convicted fraudster David Ames has been ordered to pay back just £283,000 from a £336 million fraud that saw him jailed for 12 years after thousands of investors were left out of pocket. In a ruling at a Londo... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Christopher Alexander Delgado, president and chief executive of Goliath Ventures, was arrested on a criminal complaint charging him with wire fraud and money laundering for allegedly running the ... (more story)
February 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Jay Clayton, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced the office's new Corporate Enforcement and Voluntary Self-Disclosure Program for illegal activity involving fraud and... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 25, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory after release of two 2025 enforcement cases involving misuse of confidential information and fraud related to some prediction markets traded on Ka... (more story)
February 25, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an advisory saying that it has full authority to police illegal trading practices occurring on any designated contract markets, including predic... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
The EU and UK’s competition watchdogs have formalized a cooperation agreement that would ensure “smooth interactions” on antitrust and merger cases. The deal was unique in that it would allow the Competition a... (more story)
Trade View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Punitive dumping duties ranging between 50.3 and 66.4 percent in place on steel road wheels from China into the EU will remain in place for another five years, the European Commission said Thursd... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China and Germany pledged to deepen trade cooperation and manage tensions over export controls during Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s first official visit to Beijing, according to a joint statement i... (more story)
February 25, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Two US producers have petitioned for trade relief from alleged dumped and subsidized Chinese and Indian imports of large diameter graphite electrodes.
State Aid View More
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Enforcers at the UK's Competition and Markets Authority will be able to cooperate more closely with colleagues at the European Commission and national enforcers within the EU, after a new agreeme... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The granting of operating aid for renewable energy on a larger scale will become possible, and rules on aid for airports will become more flexible, under proposed changes to the EU's State Aid Ge... (more story)
February 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Parliament could call for an "independent European Competition Authority" separate from the European Commission — the EU's executive branch — to ensure that there is "no political in... (more story)
Energy View More
February 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Presentation of the EU's energy package, which includes measures to strengthen energy security, an electrification plan, and a heating and cooling strategy, has been postponed to May 19, the Euro... (more story)
February 25, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Presidential Council on National Artificial Intelligence Strategy on Wednesday adopted the final version of a three-year policy roadmap aimed at fostering the development and adopti... (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)
Technology View More
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Sky’s Austrian streaming service shouldn't count as “digital content” under EU consumer law, a legal opinion for the EU's highest court said on Thursday. The case focuses on whether the streaming... (more story)
February 26, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary is violating EU law by preventing a radio station from broadcasting on its FM frequency, the EU’s highest court said on Thursday. The European Commission had sued Hungary after it did not... (more story)
February 26, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act was meant to be a tougher answer to years of frustration with Apple and Google’s grip over the country’s $16.5 billion app market. But the first compliance reports under... (more story)