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Artificial Intelligence
March 12, 2026 | Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
North America
Trade
March 12, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Financial Crime
March 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
March 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia's Supreme Court has rejected Google LLC’s appeal over alleged monopolistic practices and abuse of dominant position related to the implementation of the Google Play Billing system, the ... (more story)
March 13, 2026 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Four of Sydney’s largest mobile crane-hire companies have denied allegations by the Australian competition regulator that they operated a cartel through a private chat group on messaging platform WhatsApp.In F... (more story)
March 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s antitrust agency has begun accepting public comments on proposed rule changes aimed at tightening regulation of exploitative practices in supply chains and the logistics sector. The Japan... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Justice will step up legislative efforts in emerging sectors including artificial intelligence and the low-altitude economy this year, while revising the Road Traffic Safety L... (more story)
March 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Ministry of Science and ICT said it launched an expert advisory group on Friday to help draft the Artificial Intelligence Ethics Principles aimed at building a safe and trustworthy ... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Even as Anthropic pursues litigation in California against the US Defense Department's designation of the company as a supply chain risk, the company asked a federal appeals court in the District of Columbia f... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 13, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
Makan Delrahim, chief legal officer for Paramount, said Thursday that his company has presented all the necessary evidence to prove the benefits of its proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and that t... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Europe, North America
California Attorney General Rob Bonta emphasized Thursday that film studio Paramount Skydance’s plan to acquire rival Warner Bros. Discovery would elicit a “close look” from state antitrust law enforcers who a... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
André Luís Macagnan Freire, chief counsel at the Office of the Attorney General at the Brazilian competition authority, told MLex in an exclusive interview he intends to seek an extension of his mandate, which... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Thursday held its working group on the cybersecurity sector and talent development, in which they discussed lessening the country’s reliance on ... (more story)
March 13, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The National Public Safety Commission, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communication and the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry on Thursday released the annual report on data breaches. ... (more story)
March 13, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
Jurors in New Mexico’s lawsuit accusing Meta Platforms Inc. of harming young users heard Thursday from an Instagram safety executive who described scrambling to address troubling recommendations involving mino... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Chinese technology companies have shifted from followers to emerging rule shapers in the licensing of global standard-essential patents, industry leaders said at a conference in Shenzhen, citing stronger paten... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
Moderna agreed to settle a COVID-19 patent case for up to $2.25 billion, in what could be the largest patent infringement settlement figure in pharma history. Multiple patent pools also announced expansions.
March 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson and Melissa Ritti
North America
On the heels of recent decisions upholding his near-total discretion over America Invents Act patent challenges, US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Wednesday singled out the domestic footp... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 12, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Department of Justice is planning to widen its enforcement of trade compliance by going after more key actors involved in duty evasion, including those who have no direct interaction with customs offici... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A group of Senate Democrats is proposing to extend the statute of limitations for a key anti-bribery law to give future administrations additional time to prosecute Trump-era corporate corruption. Though unlik... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe
Former UK Serious Fraud Office head David Green has intervened on behalf of UBS in the investment bank’s defense against a $400 million US lawsuit filed by former trader Tom Hayes. “The decision to prosecute M... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking public input on whether to issue or change rules related to event contracts traded on prediction markets. The agency’s advanced notice of pr... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US Senator Thom Tillis said he remains determined to block President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh for Federal Reserve chair as long as a Trump administration's criminal investigation of Fed chair Jerome P... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Michelle Bowman, the US Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, outlined upcoming Basel III and Global Systemically Important Bank surcharge proposals, saying that combined they would decrease capital re... (more story)
Trade View More
March 12, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Domestic fencing manufacturers told the US International Trade Commission that petitioner ZND’s struggles in the temporary steel fencing market stem from its own product decisions, not from unfairly priced Chi... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Chief Judge Mark Barnett set an April 10 hearing for consideration of summary judgement in a pair of lawsuits by a coalition of 24 Democrat-led states and two smal... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in France next week, Greer said in a statement.
State Aid View More
March 12, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The risk that an energy-price spike may see companies exploit customers requires the attention of antitrust enforcers, but regulators are better prepared after past conflicts, Teresa Ribera said. The EU's comp... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Publishers of printed press and periodicals will be eligible for direct grants, under a Spanish plan worth €70 million to support them in the acquisition of digitalization solutions such as edit... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved €260 million of Belgian state aid in favor of Air Liquide and BASF, earmarked for the development of Kairos@C, a carbon capture and storage project. The CCS p... (more story)
Energy View More
March 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK petrol retailers and energy suppliers will be pressed by finance minister Rachel Reeves and energy minister Ed Miliband in a meeting on Friday on what they are doing to keep prices down and wh... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Weakening the 2030 car CO2 target as proposed by the European Commission would make the average electric car €2,300 more expensive in 2030 than under the current objective and reduce the sector’s... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Truck manufacturers will be allowed to bank additional emission credits before 2030 and use them later for compliance, after the European Parliament voted on Thursday to amend heavy-duty vehicle ... (more story)
Technology View More
March 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU's planned Digital Fairness Act should close legal gaps in EU consumer law and introduce binding rules against harmful online practices such as dark patterns and addictive design, a coaliti... (more story)
March 13, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Meta Platforms and YouTube, by knowingly developing addictive apps to keep children online, have harmed the mental health of the 20-year-old woman suing the companies, a jury in a Los Angeles state court heard... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Florida and 16 other states filed an amicus brief urging the US Supreme Court to "rein in the judicial expansion” of Section 230 of the Communications Act, saying it should not prohibit states fr... (more story)