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Data Privacy and Security
April 27, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
April 27, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
April 27, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Consumer indirect purchasers asked a US federal judge to grant final approval to settlements with Cargill and Tyson Foods to resolve price-fixing claims over beef. If approved, Cargill will pay $... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Pharmacy benefit managers Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics told a US judge that a federal antitrust complaint brought by the State of Michigan is too weak to beat dismissal, arguing the state ignores its... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe, North America
Google’s roll-out of AI answers to search results is being discussed with the search giant by EU officials enforcing a law regulating tech gatekeepers, they confirmed Tuesday. In documents published Tuesday, t... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 28, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo and Anna Lauwereys
Europe
UK AI firms and chipmakers are at the center of fresh government plans to reduce reliance on foreign technology and promote AI sovereignty. The strategy should help position the UK as “an AI maker, not just an... (more story)
April 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz is co-sponsor of the newly introduced Children’s Health, Advancement, Trust, Boundaries, and Oversight in Technology, or CHATBOT, Act, which would require artifi... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK AI developers and chipmakers are the target of a new government plan that aims to improve Britain’s capability in chips and semiconductor technologies, the technology minister told an audience... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The proposed joint-venture between "main rivals" UPM and Sappi may hurt competition in the markets for magazine paper, fine paper and certain specialty paper markets, the EU merger watchdog said ... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The European Commission used an announcement Tuesday clearing a JV between Airbus and Air France Tuesday to encourage dealmakers to submit efficiency claims early when notifying mergers or acquisitions. The EU... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Deutsche Börse remains “firmly on track” to receive approval to complete its €5.3 billion Allfunds acquisition in the first half of next year, its chief executive said. “We have initiated the customary pre-not... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 28, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Snapchat has said no social media ban will be 100 percent effective without reliable age verification technology and there is nothing stopping parents and families from controlling young people's use of such p... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg must face consumer-protection claims brought by the district over his conduct during the Cambridge Analytica scandal, a Washington, DC, judge said on Tuesday.
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: There is no clear demand from European consumers and businesses for Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and other operators of social networks to be interoperable, a European Commission study on the EU's digi... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 28, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s position that after six years without a substantive challenge to validity a patent owner rightfully forms a “settled expectation” that their asset is inter partes review-pr... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Microsoft told UK appeal judges on Tuesday that ValueLicensing would have no competition-law claim against the tech giant if its reselling of software licenses broke copyright rules. At the UK Court of Appeal,... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
A Section 337 probe and related US patent-infringement lawsuits initiated by Skyworks Solutions against China’s chipmaker Grand Kangxi Communication Technologies (Shanghai) have been withdrawn, ending a nearly... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe
A criminal case against Gulnara Karimova, the daughter of former Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov, was dismissed by judges in a Swiss court on Tuesday.
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The partner of a man murdered in London has agreed to pay a "six-figure sum" to UK prosecutors after claims that she bought two houses with the proceeds of a suspected fraud. The Crown Prosecutio... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Asia, Europe
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s former top lawyer denied that a near £3 million payment made to UK lawyers for nine months of work was “excessive,” saying the Kazakh miner faced an “existential threat... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 28, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
UK lawmakers in the House of Commons, Britain’s lower chamber, will seek later on Tuesday to find a new agreement over a reserve power in the upcoming pensions bill after three failed attempts to convince the ... (more story)
April 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of the Treasury announced that is has initiated a review of certified community development financial institutions to identify potential violations of applicable law or CDFI requirements.
April 27, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s financial regulator has been given some relief in its push to roll out a sweeping redress plan for the car-finance mis-selling scandal, after the industry’s main trade body confirmed it would not moun... (more story)
Trade View More
April 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade has partially remanded the Commerce Department's 2020-21 review results for the antidumping duty order on Italian forged steel fluid end blocks.
April 28, 2026
North America
Mlex Summary: Brandon Lord, the Executive Director of the Trade Programs Directorate at US Customs and Border Protection, told the US Court of International Trade that out of 11,222,927 accepted entries that p... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
The US Court of International Trade partially sided with the US Commerce Department Monday on the department’s review of its antidumping order for Chinese chlorinated isocyanurates.
State Aid View More
April 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Zenobē Energy told a UK judge on Tuesday that it is right that the Competition Appeal Tribunal examine and rule on a “subsidy scheme” designed to promote development of energy storage projects. Zenobē, which o... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Croatian measure worth €37 million, for the construction of two business facilities offering workspaces for the gaming sector in the town of Novska, has won state aid approval, the European Com... (more story)
Energy View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Céline Gauer has been appointed director-general of the EU’s energy department, the European Commission said Tuesday. She will replace Ditte Juul Jørgensen in the role from June 1. The French off... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A single methodology for calculating transport-related greenhouse gas emissions was agreed by EU lawmakers on Tuesday. While not mandatory, companies that disclose emissions will have to follow t... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a four-week consultation on further possible exemptions from EU rules on the removal and replacement of batteries. While the bloc's Batteries Regulation require... (more story)
Technology View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An interoperability provision of the EU’s key digital gatekeepers law should be extended to social media, proposes a new report published on Tuesday by think tank Future of Tech Institute. The mo... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Scrutinizing the cloud and AI sectors will be a priority for the European Commission as it applies the Digital Markets Act going forward, the EU executive said on Tuesday when publishing its firs... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Online scams should be a central focus of EU probes under the Digital Services Act, Susanne Lackner, the head of Austria’s Digital Services Coordinator, told MLex in an interview. She also said that while the ... (more story)