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Artificial Intelligence
February 13, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Financial Crime, Trade
February 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
February 13, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Claude Marx
North America
Antitrust View More
February 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Greek's competition authority has launched an investigation into a company for a suspected abuse of dominance in the market for the production and supply of radiopharmaceuticals used in tumor-dia... (more story)
February 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Edwards Lifesciences' EU probe has been closed after the European Commission said the US company had withdrawn a so-called anti-copycatting policy that "may have limited physicians' freedom to pa... (more story)
February 16, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Edwards Lifesciences’ move to drop a policy against "copycat" competitors has seen the European Commission put an end to an antitrust probe that started in 2023 with dawn raids at the heart-valve maker. The EU... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 16, 2026 | Frank Hersey and Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Social media and AI platforms operating in the UK could see more online safety compliance duties after the government said it would introduce tougher legislation for chatbots and the data of dead children and ... (more story)
February 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Experts to join an EU forum on Frontier AI — systems that significantly advance AI capabilities — are being sought by the European Commission as part of the European Frontier AI Initiative. The f... (more story)
February 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Tech companies operating in the UK will see legislative changes that bring AI chatbots into scope of the Online Safety Act and give the government powers to make further changes based on the outc... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in Leonardo's intended acquisition of the defense business of truckmaker Iveco have ten days to provide feedback to the European Commission. The EU merger regulator has set a p... (more story)
February 16, 2026
Asia, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The European Commission has disclosed the public version of its decision allowing communication and advertisement company Omnicom to acquire its rival Interpublic Group, or IPG. The deal was clea... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Ilana Kowarski
North America
A US district court’s move to block the Federal Trade Commission from requiring expanded premerger antitrust forms raises fresh uncertainty around the meaning of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Ac... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 13, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Stanford University addiction psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke implicated nine platform features on Instagram and YouTube as potentially addictive for young users during an addictive design trial against social me... (more story)
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Edward J. Markey released a statement saying that the decision by Amazon’s Ring to end its partnership with Flock Safety is an important step in guarding against an ever-expanding netw... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
New Mexico closed out the first week of its consumer protection trial against Meta Platforms with expert testimony about the addictive design features of the company's products. Analyzing internal documents fr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 16, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Indian IT company Anthropic Softwares has sued US-based Anthropic PBC for trademark infringement in India. A Karnataka court hearing today coincides with CEO Dario Amodei’s appearance at the India AI Impact Summit 2026.
February 16, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
US pharmaceutical giant Squibb has been authorized by India’s top court to conduct technical "product-to-claim mapping" of Zydus’ anti-cancer biosimilar. The Supreme Court of India's directive of physical comp... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Commercial Real Estate Exchange (CREXi) asked the US Supreme Court to deny rival CoStar’s bid for review of CREXi’s antitrust counterclaims, arguing the high court can not accept CoStar’s attempt to ignore the... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 16, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The former head of collapsed construction company Carillion has been fined £237,700 by the UK financial regulator after failing to alert the market about the company’s “serious” financial troubles. The firm ex... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Treasury Department has relaxed its rules on customer due diligence, telling financial institutions on Friday that they no longer must identify the beneficial owner of a legal entity at each new account opening.
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order granting exceptive relief to covered financial institutions from certain requirements under its customer... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's financial regulator received 281 new whistleblowing reports between October and December 2025, down from 405 in the previous quarter, according to data released by the Financial Conduct ... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The planned equity consolidated tape, a single feed of information on UK equity trading, will not resolve the rising cost of market data, a leading banking trade group has told the country's financial services... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK financial services’ adoption of AI is already benefitting from stress-testing techniques developed for assessing military uses of AI that can help the financial regulator understand what’s going on under th... (more story)
Trade View More
February 16, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Pure electric, plug-in hybrid and fuel-cell vehicles could only be eligible for EU public procurement if they had at least 70 percent of their non-battery component value originating in the EU, according to a ... (more story)
February 16, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Japan’s transport ministry said Monday it has created a new approval scheme to accept certain US-made passenger cars for sale in Japan without additional domestic testing, implementing Japan’s co... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
The Trump administration’s decision to expand the tariff-rate quota for Argentinian beef only offers a limited response to historic supply-side issues for the US cattle industry, highlighting the constraints o... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark secured European Commission approval on Friday for a €1.04 billion state aid plan aimed at enabling landowners to voluntarily withdraw agricultural or forestry land from production to cu... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission suspects that tax breaks and "preferential financing" handed to Goldwind by banks controlled by the Chinese state may distort competition in the EU, according to an offici... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An EU in-depth state aid investigation into Lithuania's support to energy company AB Ignitis Gamyba for a strategic reserve for electricity covering the 2013-2018 period is now open for comments.... (more story)
Energy View More
February 13, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
US-Japanese group Paloma Rheem's intended takeover of Groupe Atlantic will need clearance from the French government under its FDI vetting powers, MLex understands. France has made clear that it intends to fol... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
France’s delayed energy plan confirms a strong push for nuclear power, including six third generation reactors and preparations for eight more, while scaling back renewable targets because of delays in electri... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: France aims to build six new nuclear reactors and launch a preparatory program for eight more, according to the Multiannual Energy Plan for the 2026-35 period released on Feb. 13. Targets for sol... (more story)
Technology View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark’s telecom security law and national risk assessments could be affected by a case referred by Estonian judges to the EU's top court, the Danish Ministry for Public Safety and Emergency Pre... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A common approach to identify, evaluate and address cybersecurity risks was published in new guidance to safeguard Information and Communication Technologies supply chains by the European Commiss... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK online safety regulator should face an expanded legal challenge over its transparency practices as campaign group Movement for an Open Web has applied to join a court case questioning Ofcom’s refusals t... (more story)