Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
October 29, 2026 | Chris May, Nick Robertson and Emma Whitford
Europe, North America
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
October 29, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe, Latin America, North America
Data Privacy and Security, Energy, Technology, Trade
October 29, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
October 30, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
The attorney general for Maryland, the first state in the US to issue a surveillance pricing ban, wants a new task force to investigate the practice, saying a more specialized team like those already created b... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Alex Wilts
The National Football League will return to a California district court for a new damages trial in a case brought by NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers after a federal appeals court on Friday reinstated a jury’s fi... (more story)
October 30, 2026
MLex Summary: The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has reinstated a jury’s finding that the National Football League violated US antitrust laws in a case brought by NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers. The ... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Amy Miller
Data centers have become an unexpected political flashpoint ahead of the US midterm elections, with Democrats spending millions of dollars attacking Republicans over rising electricity bills, corporate tax bre... (more story)
MLex Summary: US House Judiciary Committee Democrats Jamie Raskin, Jerry Nadler and Hank Johnson filed an amicus brief in pending copyright litigation by news publishers and authors against OpenAI and Micrsoft... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
The alleged bugging of an OpenAI executive conference room underscores why companies protecting trade secrets need safeguards beyond cybersecurity, experts told MLex.
MLex Summary: The Canadian Pacific Kansas City railroad, or CPKC, urged the US Surface Transportation Board to deny Union Pacific Railroad's application to buy out rival Norfolk Southern Railway due to allegat... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Middle East, North America
DoorDash’s proposed $17 billion acquisition of Instacart is likely to draw an in-depth investigation from US federal and state antitrust regulators as the merger carries the potential to eliminate a growing co... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition authority is reviewing Alcoa’s proposed acquisition of South32’s bauxite, alumina and primary aluminum business. The deal would give Alcoa control of South32 entities holding interests in ... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
A US federal judge said he is unlikely to dismiss the US Federal Trade Commission's privacy and consumer protection lawsuit against Hims & Hers.
October 30, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
The US judge overseeing Character.AI's bankruptcy proceedings stopped short of requiring the company to obtain a privacy ombudsman for the process, but he "strongly encourage[d] the debtor to consider the enga... (more story)
Meta Platforms has reached a settlement with an 18-year-old woman who accused the social media giant of deliberately designing Facebook and Instagram to be addictive, contributing to her anxiety, depression, a... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Nick Robertson
The US Supreme Court’s Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma decision this year makes induced patent infringement claims against “skinny label” generic drugmakers harder to plead, practitioners say, contrasti... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Steve Scherer
The federal judiciary is exploring artificial intelligence tools to improve productivity, while cautioning judges against delegating core functions to AI technology. Judge Leonard Stark of the US Court of Appe... (more story)
The comment period for the US Copyright Office’s 10th triennial rulemaking is open and independent medical equipment repairers must again defend their exemption from anticircumvention rules. In a notice of pro... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Latin America, North America
Former oil trader Glenn Oztemel didn’t suffer prejudice due to erroneous or confusing jury instructions in his US trial, according to a brief filed by the government in the appeal of his conviction and 15-mont... (more story)
MLex Summary: Former oil trader Glenn Oztemel wasn't prejudiced by erroneous or confusing jury instructions in his trial, according to the US government’s brief filed in the appeal of his conviction and senten... (more story)
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
MLex Summary: The Financial Action Task Force launched a targeted review process to accelerate global implementation of the body's anti-money laundering and counterterrorist financing standards in relation to ... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Neil Roland
California should exempt its federally chartered banks from a 2023 law requiring disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions, US Comptroller Jonathan Gould said, citing an “undue burden” on the firms and a distract... (more story)
A UK businessman living in Hong Kong was charged in the US with laundering money he believed to be the proceeds of computer hacking, and he offered to provide his services if the funds were derived from drug t... (more story)
Europe
MLex Summary: Cryptocurrency platform Binance said it has fallen victim to a hack estimated to have affected $6.3 billion worth of customer funds. The exchange said it was likely the funds had been accessed vi... (more story)
Asia, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously voted in a preliminary determination there is a reasonable indication a domestic industry is injured by allegedly dumped imports of corrugated di... (more story)
MLex Summary: The US Department of Homeland Security announced that it has added three Chinese genomic companies to its Entity List for forced Uyghur labor. Under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, compan... (more story)
MLex Summary: The EU and Canada have concluded substantive negotiations on a digital trade agreement and negotiations on a new competition cooperation pact, leaders announced at their summit in Montreal on Fri... (more story)
October 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's government-backed chipmaker Rapidus and Indian technology company HCLTech said on Monday that they have opened two semiconductor development centers in Bengaluru and Hubli, India, to supp... (more story)
October 26, 2026
MLex Summary: The Greek Council of State has released the public version of its decision in August to refer to the EU top court a dispute between the Greek state and the newspaper Dimokratia. The dispute regar... (more story)
October 22, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Anna Lauwereys
Five Spanish industrial manufacturers saw their challenge of a state aid measure for power prices dismissed at the EU top court on Thursday. PGI Spain, Berry Superfos Pamplona, Promens Packaging, RPC Envases a... (more story)
October 29, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Proposed EU requirements preventing electricity from being taxed more heavily than gas faced government opposition Thursday, with several countries arguing that the measures require unanimous approval under a ... (more story)
October 29, 2026
MLex Summary: EU governments called for greater national discretion over electricity network charges and simpler rules for meeting future energy targets during Thursday's Energy Council. According to a press r... (more story)
MLex Summary: Reporting obligations for wholesale energy transactions — including liquefied natural gas trading, market exposure and bilateral contracts with energy-intensive consumers — have been clarified in... (more story)
October 30, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Google has said individual online services should remain responsible for age assurance, after a report by the UK's online safety regulator found that app stores could do more to protect children. Ofcom said ap... (more story)
Meta Platforms has renewed its criticism of information demands issued by UK regulator Ofcom, after the High Court rejected legal challenges brought by Meta, TikTok and X. Meta maintained that the scale of the... (more story)
MLex Summary: French appeal judges have published a ruling dismissing Meta Platforms' appeals against two interim injunctions issued in July by the French competition authority. The regulator had ordered the U... (more story)