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Artificial Intelligence
April 20, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Intellectual Property
April 20, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Trade
April 17, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
April 21, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia's antitrust regulator has received court approval to intervene in Epic Games’ proceedings targeting Apple’s app store practices, the watchdog has announced. In a statement on Tuesday, t... (more story)
April 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: The Japan Newspaper Publishers & Editors Association urged Google to respect the rights of news-content owners and to provide an opt-out mechanism for the use of their content in generative AI se... (more story)
April 21, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Amazon makes demands on its vendors to fix, correct and increase the prices of products on other retailers’ websites, with the ecommerce giant having orchestrated the price-fixing scheme with Levi's, Walmart, ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 21, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea’s Science and ICT Ministry and Nvidia are co-hosting the Nvidia’s Nemotron Developer Days in Seoul from April 21 to 24. The ministry said Tuesday that the event aims to strengthen the... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU governments and lawmakers have agreed on some of the less controversial aspects of a legislative package to amend the EU's AI law, including the provisions on AI literacy, the legal basis for ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU governments are being asked for feedback on compromise proposals, to weigh in on different options and to indicate their flexibility on five key unresolved issues in AI Act amendments, ahead of a final deal... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A UK freeze order over Société LDC's acquisition of Green Label Holdings, which prevents the companies from integrating pending a merger review, has been canceled by the competition regulator. Gr... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
Executives from Charter Communications faced questions Monday about the company's services during emergencies and commitments to services for low-income customers at the start of a week-long evidentiary hearin... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
North America
A California federal judge said the relevant product market in Nexstar’s acquisition of broadcaster Tegna is retransmission consent licenses for the Big Four broadcasting stations, explicitly excluding streami... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 21, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China urged the European Commission to give serious consideration to its comments on proposed revisions to the bloc’s Cybersecurity Act, warning of possible countermeasures if Chinese companies are treated unf... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
The US Federal Trade Commission's newly unredacted complaint against JustAnswer LLC reveals new details about what the company allegedly knew about its own deceptive sign-up practices.
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex: After a federal judge ordered previously redacted portions the US Federal Trade Commission's lawsuit against online question-and-answer platform JustAnswer unsealed, the FTC filed an unredacted version r... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 20, 2026 | Nick Robertson
North America
A US Patent and Trademark Office listening session Monday on the technology industry's views on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board showed there's little common ground between patent owners and challengers, but ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday granted BMW’s motion to dismiss a bid to undo an antisuit injunction it was awarded in January — and the judges ordered Onesta I... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Abbott Diabetes Care has secured a UPC injunction against Sinocare’s GlucoMen iCan, with appeal judges overturning a refusal and finding indirect infringement and likely validity. Judges cited urgency, warning... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Alain Bibliowicz Mitrani, a resident of Miami, Florida, and a citizen of France and Colombia, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in a sprawling money laundering and fraud operation ... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US regulators would require less systemic-risk data from private credit funds, which have been struggling of late, as well as from hedge and private equity funds, under a proposal today. Fewer investment advis... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A 44-year-old citizen of Iran was extradited to the US and will appear in Seattle federal court on a nine-count indictment related to his alleged scheme to violate US trade sanctions against Iran... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 20, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK government wants to establish a single payments framework for both traditional and tokenized payments, including stablecoins and tokenized deposits, as part of a wider drive to modernize its payments re... (more story)
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Democrats on the US Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee released a new report with comprehensive analysis of Kevin Warsh’s publicly available financial disclosures and ethics agr... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Ralf Seekatz, an EU lawmaker from the center-right European People’s Party, faces a tight deadline to secure support from several political groups for a revamped securitization framework ahead of a May 5 vote.... (more story)
Trade View More
April 20, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade partly remanded the Commerce Department’s latest revision to a 2023 review of an antisubsidy order on certain carbon and alloy steel cut-to-length plate from South Korea, fi... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe, Oceania
The French government won't oppose the EU-Australia trade agreement despite voting against the EU-Mercosur deal last year over agricultural concerns, MLex understands. Expectations were that France, with an ac... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Research business Ecorys will assess the economic impact of the EU’s trade defense measures, an award notice shows. The estimated length of the contract, commissioned by the European Commission's... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 20, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
The Maltese government has proposed renewing Eugène Buttigieg's appointment to the EU's General Court for another term, according to documents seen by MLex. National representatives are set to make an official... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hrvatska Banka za Obnovu i Razvitak, a Croatian development bank, may receive a capital injection worth €411 million, the European Commission said on Monday, clearing the support under EU state a... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Romania's plan to grant €600 million and other benefits to state-owned Nuclearelectrica National Company, to refurbish the Cernavoda 1 nuclear reactor, has drawn an in-depth EU state aid probe.
Energy View More
April 20, 2026 | Sean Maguire
Oceania
Australia's incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins has warned of a rise in climate-related legal actions against corporations stemming from an advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice las... (more story)
April 20, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: A legal opinion authored by Australia’s incoming Solicitor General Ruth Higgins and published Monday says an International Court of Justice advisory opinion on climate change is likely to influen... (more story)
April 17, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
No breakthrough on the EU's 20th Russia sanctions plan is likely at a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council next week despite the political transition in Hungary, an EU diplomat said on Friday. The package... (more story)
Technology View More
April 21, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission moved to voluntarily dismiss its appeal seeking review of a preliminary injunction preventing the FTC from enforcing a civil investigative demand issued to Media M... (more story)
April 20, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
A US judge enjoined an Arkansas law on Monday that was set to take effect tomorrow which modified the already-barred Arkansas Social Media Act.
April 20, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US federal judge in the Western District of Arkansas preliminarily enjoined the Arkansas Social Media Safety Act from going into effect. Ruling in favor of the tech trade association NetChoice ... (more story)