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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
February 06, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Antitrust, Technology
February 06, 2026 | Alex Wilts and Chris May
North America
Antitrust
February 05, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
Antitrust View More
February 09, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The European Commission has wrongly assumed that AI bots such as Perplexity and Poke.com need WhatsApp to distribute their services, Meta Platforms said, pushing back against EU charges levied on Monday. EU co... (more story)
February 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms might need to suspend its new policy banning AI chatbots from WhatsApp, after the European Commission notified the social media giant of its intention to impose interim measures. M... (more story)
February 09, 2026 | Lewis Crofts, Nicholas Hirst and Anna Ferrari
Europe
Meta Platforms has received a formal charge sheet from EU enforcers, in a move to reinstate access to WhatsApp for AI agents. The Statement of Objections is a rare move to use "interim measures" following a si... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 09, 2026 | Jeyup S Kwaak
Asia
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi led her party to a landslide victory in Sunday’s general election, securing more than two-thirds of the lower house. The resounding success will likely bring a sense of s... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Frontier AI initiative is shaping plans for a non-profit, world-leading AI lab in Europe, with early research priorities including reinforced learning, agentic AI, physical AI and world models. Th... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China's State Administration for Market Regulation has imposed fines on companies mimicking popular artificial intelligence services like DeepSeek and ChatGPT. The actions follow Beijing's push to promote the ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 09, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
India’s antitrust regulator conditionally approved Torrent’s acquisition of JB Chemicals in October 2025, citing near-monopolies in certain probiotic and Nifedipine markets, but cleared the deal after voluntar... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Henrique Santiago
Latin America
Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima, president of Brazil’s competition watchdog, told MLex the use of preventive measures — an agency tool designed to prevent harm to competition — is necessary when dealing with t... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
California’s state premerger notification bill passed the Senate Monday and was presented to Governor Gavin Newsom on Feb. 5 at 3 p.m. Senate Bill 25 derives from the Uniform Law Commission’s Uniform Antitrust... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
The record fine given to short-video app Kuaishou is prompting questions about how the Chinese internet regulator exercised its discretionary power. The Beijing Internet Information Office said Friday that the... (more story)
February 09, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
KakaoPay has been ordered to pay roughly 13 billion won ($8.9 million) in administrative penalties in a new enforcement action, adding to sanctions already imposed by South Korea’s privacy regulator, after the... (more story)
February 07, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
With a jury of six men and six women chosen Friday, the first bellwether trial in which a private plaintiff will argue that Meta Platforms and Google's YouTube were illegally designed to be addictive to young ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: US glass specialist Corning has seen the European Commission release the summary version of an earlier settlement struck as part of a dominance abuse probe regarding Alkali-AS Glass used in handh... (more story)
February 09, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
A newly disclosed patent-licensing deal between Maxeon Solar and Shanghai Aiko Solar Energy is being closely watched in China’s photovoltaic industry for ending a long-running patent dispute and fixing the val... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A bill introduced in the US House this week would spend $375 million through 2030 to establish 10 regional hubs to accelerate the development of cutting-edge defense technologies. The program hopes to bring to... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Helsinki Commission Chairman Senator Roger Wicker, Co-Chairman Representative Joe Wilson, Ranking Member Senator Sheldon Whitehouse and Ranking Member Representative Steve Cohen and nine other... (more story)
February 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Senator Amy Klobuchar reintroduced the Combating Money Laundering, Terrorist Finance and Counterfeiting Act to enhance criminal money laundering statutes.
February 06, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe, North America
Charges recently unsealed in the US amid a corruption scandal at a NATO procurement agency came after prosecutors dropped two cases last year involving alleged bribery of other officials in the same support ag... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 09, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority has issued two new regulations to strengthen governance, risk management and business planning in the digital finance sector, covering licensed fintech in... (more story)
February 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation announced a 90-day extension to the comment period on the agency’s notice of proposed rulemaking that would implement the application provisions under... (more story)
February 06, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Russia is set to face a new EU sanctions package targeting energy, financial services and trade in response to its invasion of Ukraine, after the European Commission proposed new measures on Frid... (more story)
Trade View More
February 09, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Imports of lightweight thermal paper from China into the EU will be registered by EU customs authorities starting Tuesday. In November, the EU trade regulator started an investigation to find out... (more story)
February 06, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US and India announced that they've reached a framework for an interim agreement regarding reciprocal and mutually beneficial trade. "Today’s framework reaffirms the countries’ commitment to ... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Europe, North America
The US Commerce Department improperly assessed which market factors primarily influenced the price of phosphate rock when calculating an antisubsidy duty rate against Russian phosphate fertilizers, the Court o... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Estonia has won European Commission state aid approval for its methodology for calculating counter-guarantee premiums on new short-term banking guarantees, as well as guarantees on new loans to c... (more story)
February 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany has secured approval for a €3 billion aid plan to back investments that contribute to clean technology manufacturing capacity. The measure, which involves grants and tax advantages, aims ... (more story)
February 05, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Parties interested in the European Commission's in-depth probe into whether Poland's €26 million investment aid in favor of MAN Trucks is in line with the bloc's state aid rules now have the chan... (more story)
Energy View More
February 06, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Some EU countries are opposing the European Commission’s proposal to suspend the appointment of an authorized representative for extended producer responsibility for batteries and waste batteries, MLex has lea... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Italian lawmaker Pierfrancesco Maran is set to become the next chair of the European Parliament's committee on environment, climate and food safety, his center-left Socialists and Democrats group says.
February 05, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US State Department said the Trump administration has signed 11 new bilateral critical minerals frameworks, with Argentina, the Cook Islands, Ecuador, Guinea, Morocco, Paraguay, Peru, the Phi... (more story)
Technology View More
February 06, 2026 | Chris May, Clayton Vickers and Khushita Vasant
North America
Even if Zillow Group possesses roughly 50-65 percent of the US market for online home search platforms, broader competitive conditions do not show the company wields market power justifying a preliminary injun... (more story)
February 06, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
The Computer & Communications Industry Association has sued Utah officials to block a new app-store law set to take effect in May, arguing it unconstitutionally restricts access to protected speech.
February 06, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: NewsGuard filed suit in federal district court seeking to enjoin the Federal Trade Commission and its chairman, Andrew Ferguson, from continuing an investigation of NewsGuard. “While the FTC has ... (more story)