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Data Privacy and Security, Technology

May 30, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo, Xu Yuan

North America

Social media companies paid school district $27 million to settle US addiction claims
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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security

May 29, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

AI chatbots: California Invasion of Privacy Act's next frontier
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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Trade

May 29, 2026 | Lewis Crofts, Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst

Europe

EU probe of JD.com-Ceconomy is first test of Chinese M&A distortion

Antitrust View More

State AGs ask to intervene in US private settlements with property managers

May 30, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The attorneys general of the District of Columbia and the states of Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Washington moved for limited intervention in private plaintiffs' settlements with apartment ... (more story)

US states ask appeals court to reverse judgment, remand FTC’s Meta monopoly suit

May 29, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Twenty-eight states and the District of Columbia asked a US appeals court to reverse a lower court's order in the Federal Trade Commission's monopoly suit against Meta Platforms, saying the court erred in requ... (more story)

US judge probes line between access, exploitation in biotech patent row

May 29, 2026 | Melissa Ritti and Khushita Vasant

North America

A Pennsylvania federal judge on Friday repeatedly questioned whether seed deposit access encompasses export, propagation and other downstream activities, suggesting the clash between Corteva Agriscience and In... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

OpenAI, Apple renew bid for X to produce Musk's messages in US antitrust suit

May 29, 2026 | Clayton Vickers

North America

OpenAI asked a US judge Friday to reject X and X.AI’s objection to, and request for stay of, an order compelling production of emails from Elon Musk, saying the plaintiffs overstate potential harms and have on... (more story)

OpenAI says US judge should reject X's objection to producing Musk messages

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: OpenAI told a US judge they should reject X Corp. and X.AI's objection to an order compelling them to produce email and text messages from Elon Musk, saying Musk has refused to participate in dis... (more story)

Jurisdictional lines at heart of US data center hookup talks

May 29, 2026 | Emma Whitford

North America

US state utility regulators are awaiting federal guidance that could standardize how energy-intensive artificial intelligence data centers hook up to the electric grid. The process, which kicked off last fall,... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Nexstar says US states offer no basis to delay oral argument for appeal

May 30, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US state attorneys general have offered "no real reason why" their challenge to the Nexstar-Tegna merger shouldn't be heard by a US appeals court in August, or at the earliest available date, Nex... (more story)

American Water-Essential deal threatened by Pa. push to lower utility bills

May 29, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

A pair of unanticipated events this month create risk for American Water Works’ proposed acquisition of Essential Utilities.

Subsidies for JD.com's logistics, technology in China draws EU FSR warning

May 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Chinese subsidies to JD.com may have changed the "negotiations dynamics" around its bid for retailer Ceconomy, according to a European Commission notice. The document says the regulator, which op... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Settlement documents show social media companies to pay $27m to Kentucky school district

May 30, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms, YouTube, TikTok and Snap will pay a combined $27.01 million to a school district in Breathitt County, Kentucky, to settle claims that their products are addictive and caused a men... (more story)

US legislative efforts to ban social media forge ahead as legal challenges loom

May 29, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

Following recent court victories against social media giants like Meta Platforms over online harms for children, efforts by state lawmakers to ban social media use by young people are making progress in Califo... (more story)

Discord ordered to set default settings to most protective levels in Texas

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced an emergency temporary restraining order forcing Discord to reconfigure four key default settings to their most protective state for all Texas accounts... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Private companies can become ‘trusted flaggers,’ EU digital law draft guidance says

May 29, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Private companies, including IP right holders, could obtain “trusted flagger” status according to draft European Commission guidance issued under the Digital Services Act, potentially broadening access to one ... (more story)

Microsoft’s Choi says AI needs new IP playbook as patent commons seeks members

May 29, 2026 | Steve Scherer

North America

The rapid development of artificial intelligence requires a combination of intellectual property tools, a view that underpins Microsoft’s support for the Shared AI License Foundation, or SAIL, Associate Genera... (more story)

Chinese regulator extends trade-secret protection to unpublished short-drama scripts

May 29, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China's fast-growing short-drama market gained new legal protection after a Chongqing regulator brought unpublished scripts under trade-secret protection, marking a first for the city and strengthening safegua... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Iranian network defrauding US firms sanctioned for supplying Iran's military

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against an Iran-based procurement network that impersonated and defrauded US companies in order to procure restric... (more story)

Trump exemptions to corporate ownership rule created gaps needing action, US GAO says

May 29, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

The US Treasury Department should address gaps caused by a March 2025 exemption to a rule requiring certain companies to identify their beneficial owners, but it hasn’t done so, according to a new report by th... (more story)

US GAO issues report on gaps caused by Corporate Transparency Act exemptions

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Government Accountability Office said the US Treasury Department should address gaps caused by a March 2025 exemption to a rule requiring certain companies to identify their beneficial own... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US SEC issues draft to cancel Biden-era rules on climate change

May 29, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to withdraw pending Biden-era rules requiring thousands of public companies to disclose their climate-related impacts and the risks they face from global warm... (more story)

EU's largest economies lead push for market integration compromise

May 29, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

The EU's six largest economies on Friday proposed compromises on the bloc's contentious capital markets reform, including restricting ESMA oversight to significant crypto firms and adopting a phased approach f... (more story)

US CFTC approves Kalshi for listing of bitcoin contract

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved KalshiEX, an exchange and prediction market, for the listing of the BTCPERP contract, a perpetual contract that references the spot price of b... (more story)

Trade View More

Russian palladium does not injure US industry, USITC says

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission has determined that dumped and subsidized unwrought palladium imported from Russia does not materially injure US industry. The Commerce Department will not i... (more story)

US firm challenges Canada’s oil pipes dumping order

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US producer Maverick Tube Corp. requested a binational panel review under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement to challenge an April affirmative antidumping ruling from Canada on oil country tubular goods from the US.

US importer challenges Commerce oil pipes scope order

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US importer Commercial Steel Products filed a lawsuit at the Court of International Trade to contest the Commerce Department's April final scope determination concerning oil country tubular goods from China.

State Aid View More

Spanish state aid for electricity capacity mechanism approved by EU

May 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Spain’s plan to provide €9 billion in state aid for electricity capacity mechanisms aimed at safeguarding security of supply has been approved by the European Commission. The measure, which will ... (more story)

Spanish state aid for farmers facing rising fertilizer costs approved by EU

May 28, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Spanish plans to provide up to €500 million to farmers facing rising fertilizer costs have been approved by EU state aid regulators. The aid will cover up to 70 percent of the additional fertiliz... (more story)

Tech companies need state-aid rules to better understand their financing, EU states urge

May 28, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

EU countries including Germany, Belgium, Spain and Poland are pushing for an overhaul of state-aid rules they say are unintentionally blocking support for start-ups, tech firms and social enterprises. At a min... (more story)

Energy View More

EU gas market adapted to lower Russian supplies in 2024-25, report says

May 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Pressure on the EU gas network eased in 2024 and 2025 as the market adapted to lower Russian gas supplies and higher LNG imports, according to a report by the EU Agency for the Cooperation of Ene... (more story)

EU power grid faces no widespread electricity supply risks this summer, report says

May 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU electricity supply is expected to remain secure this summer despite a decline in coal- and gas-fired generation capacity, the European Commission said, citing the latest assessment by European... (more story)

EU industrial energy use remains on downward trend, Eurostat says

May 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU industrial energy consumption remained on a long-term downward trend in 2024, falling 8.1 percent from levels a decade earlier, according to Eurostat data. Electricity and natural gas remained... (more story)

Technology View More

US states file amicus brief in support of FTC in Meta monopoly suit

May 29, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The District of Columbia and 28 US states filed an amicus brief in the Federal Trade Commission's appeal of a lower court order finding Meta Platforms did not illegally monopolize the personal so... (more story)

G7 countries agree common approach to online safety rules

May 29, 2026

Asia, Europe, North America

MLex Summary: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, the US and the EU agreed on a common set of principles to protect children online. Under the framework, signed by the Group of Seven nations, online... (more story)

South Carolina’s broad Age-Appropriate Design Code to affect array of companies

May 29, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

North America

Companies that never had to comply with children’s online regulations are prepping to submit audits to South Carolina’s attorney general under the state’s new Age-Appropriate Design Code that took effect earlier this year.