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Artificial Intelligence
December 18, 2025 | Emma Whitford
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
December 18, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Trade
December 17, 2025 | Bradley Dress
Asia, North America
Antitrust View More
December 19, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Epic Games Chief Executive Tim Sweeney has criticized Apple’s new app-fee structure adopted in response to Japan’s Mobile Software Competition Act. In a series of posts on X on Thursday, Sweeney ... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
IndiGo faces antitrust scrutiny as India’s competition watchdog has decided to look into the airline’s operations after widespread flight disruptions that stranded passengers nationwide. The Competition Commis... (more story)
December 19, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Epic Games expects Brazil’s antitrust decision on Apple’s App Store to set clear limits on fees and user interface practices, CEO Tim Sweeney said in an interview with MLex. The remarks come as Apple negotiate... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex summary: The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued a lengthy order to mid-Atlantic grid operator PJM, saying its existing rules fail to address how to fairly co-locate large, power-hungry facilit... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: OpenAI asked a US federal judge to reject X Corp.'s motion to compel in antitrust litigation filed in Texas. "This action is just one in a series of lawsuits that Elon Musk has instigated against... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Europe
Members of a group to address the growing energy demands of artificial intelligence in the UK, which includes Google, Microsoft, and power companies, want the government to create a “SWOT team” to help navigat... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Greg Casar urged the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to closely scrutinize AT&T's and SpaceX's plans to acquire wireless spectrum... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden urged the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to closely scrutinize the proposed merger between real estate brokerages Compass, Inc. and ... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Jean Comte
Europe
Belgian food maker Vandemoortele has won EU approval for its takeover of Délifrance, after agreeing to divest two Délifrance production sites for frozen laminated dough. The remedy ensure that the merger will ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
December 19, 2025 | Mike Swift
North America
Calling Roblox platform "the digital equivalent of a creepy cargo van lingering at the edge of a playground," Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti became the fourth US state attorney general to sue Rob... (more story)
December 19, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Calling Roblox "the digital equivalent of a creepy cargo van lingering at the edge of a playground," Tennessee's attorney general has sued the gaming platform on child-safety allegations. “Roblox... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Matthew Newman and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Telefónica, Orange and Deutsche Telekom, and other telecom operators will see an EU proposal to revamp telecom regulations early next year after the European Commission's internet scrutiny body gave the draft ... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
December 19, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
In the high-stakes world of patents, a "thumping victory" in the Delhi High Court has fundamentally rewritten the playbook for India’s pharmaceutical generics giants.
December 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson
Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
The AI licensing space is heating up, with a $1 billion deal between the Walt Disney Company and OpenAI grabbing headlines, while consolidation reaches the video codec patent pool space.
December 18, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
A bill introduced in the US Senate this week would allow photographers to register up to 3,000 photographs at the same time, up from 750, and create a deferred registration fee payment system, with the goal of... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Justice Department announced a resolution of a criminal trade fraud investigation into MGI International and its subsidiaries, a leading global plastic resin distributor, pursuant to Part ... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Justice Department announced it had declined to prosecute MGI International and its subsidiaries for evading tariffs after the global plastic resin distributor voluntarily disclosed its conduct, coopera... (more story)
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is placing further pressure on the Iranian shadow fleet, targeting 29 shadow fleet vessels and their respective management firms, as ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: A consultation on revamped EU settlement rules was opened on Thursday. The proposed regulation is part of a broader package proposal aimed at better integrating and overseeing the bloc’s capital ... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European People's Party, the Socialists & Democrats and the European Conservatives & Reformists will jointly lead the talks on the jumbo package proposal aimed at better integrating the EU capital markets,... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Schufa has won its appeal in Germany against a ruling that it had breached the EU's GDPR data protection law by retaining an individual's data after the person's debts had been settled. The Germa... (more story)
Trade View More
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Customs and Border Protection issued a withhold release order against automobile tires manufactured in Serbia by Chinese manufacturer Linglong International Europe for use of forced labor in their production.
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer this week told the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee in a closed session that the Trump administration will keep “options open” in... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
Cyprus, which is chairing ministers’ meetings in the first half of 2026, has said it wants to reach a first compromise among the 27 EU member states on the upcoming Industrial Accelerator Act, MLex understands... (more story)
State Aid View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: BdM Banca isn't entitled to receive compensation for the damage it allegedly suffered due to the European Commission's decision for Italy to recoup illegal state aid from Banca Tercas, a legal op... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: On Wednesday, the European Commission approved a €4.1 billion Hungarian state aid scheme to support investment toward net zero technology manufacturing capacity and its components, under CISAF, t... (more story)
December 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to give state support to aid the roll out of fast-charging stations for electric heavy-duty vehicles at non-serviced rest sites along motorways has won EU approval. The European Co... (more story)
Energy View More
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Professionals, experts and other interested parties have until March 12, 2026, to provide their views on the planned revision of the EU's 2018 Governance Regulation on the Energy Union and Climat... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's competition authority has said that most energy companies had not imposed excessive prices during the country's energy crisis in 2022-23, and that some had already reimbursed around €20... (more story)
December 17, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The indictment of former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko was properly sealed, a US judge ruled Wednesday, denying his motion to dismiss charges stemming from an alleged bribery scheme in Ghana. Prosecutors s... (more story)
Technology View More
December 18, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Senators Lindsey Graham and Dick Durbin introduced a bipartisan bill to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which would remove the liability shield for social media platforms... (more story)
December 18, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: ENISA, the EU's cybersecurity agency, has opened two public consultations on its draft SBOM Landscape Analysis and a new Technical Advisory on the Secure Use of Package Managers. SBOM — a Softwar... (more story)
December 18, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK’s new strategy to tackle violence against women and girls, published Thursday, steers away from calls to encourage device-level nudity-blocking tools, despite ministerial claims that children should be ... (more story)