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Data Privacy and Security

June 10, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

Human involvement in social media feeds probed by judge in suit over Calif. law

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

June 10, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

Paramount, Warner unaware of specific US states’ concerns about deal
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DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

June 10, 2026 | Wesley Brown

Europe, North America

Paramount foreign ownership waiver likely to be granted, US FCC commissioner says

Antitrust View More

Trip.com among ticketing platforms warned over sales practices, data collection

June 11, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China’s State Administration for Market Regulation, together with the Cyberspace Administration of China and the National Railway Administration, said in a statement Thursday that it had summoned... (more story)

Indian truck cartel ordered to end practices that raised steel transport costs

June 11, 2026 | Freny Patel

Asia

Four Indian truck associations have been found guilty of operating a cartel that fixed prices and excluded competitors, prompting the Competition Commission of India to order them to cease practices that infla... (more story)

Ryanair says UK probe over charges for parents is 'bogus'

June 11, 2026 | Jon Menon

Europe

Ryanair is under investigation by the UK antitrust regulator over fees that parents must pay to sit with their children, including those with disabilities. The budget airline said the Competition and Markets A... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

China maps out three-year push to integrate AI with telecom networks

June 11, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology unveiled a three-year plan on Wednesday to accelerate the integration of artificial intelligence with telecommunications industry in a bid ... (more story)

Anthropic asks US court to strike government's ‘supply chain risk’ designation

June 10, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Anthropic argues that the US government retaliated against the artificial intelligence company for protected speech, unlawfully labeled it a national-security threat, blacklisted it from federal ... (more story)

Musk’s xAI faces growing legal risk over gas-powered turbines powering data centers

June 10, 2026 | Amy Miller

North America

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing growing legal risk over the gas-powered turbines in Mississippi that power his massive artificial intelligence data centers. Mississippi residents and civil rights groups are suing th... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Tante Enso wins German approval to acquire 36 Tegut stores

June 11, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Tante Enso Süd-West, a unit of grocery-store operator Tante Enso group, has won clearance from Germany's competition authority to buy 36 supermarkets owned by tegut... gute Lebensmittel, mainly l... (more story)

Balearia-Armas deal wins conditional Spanish antitrust approval

June 11, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Shipping company Balearia has received clearance for its acquisition of certain assets from Armas, the Spanish competition authority has said. The approval is conditional on a set of remedies and... (more story)

Texas Instruments, Silicon Labs merger filing not yet accepted in China

June 11, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China's top merger-control regulator has not yet formally accepted the filing for Texas Instruments' proposed $7.5 billion acquisition of Silicon Labs, MLex has learned. A notification for the transaction betw... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Anonymized texts not sufficient to determine impartiality, EU court opinion says

June 11, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Anonymized versions of declarations of no conflict of interest are not sufficient grounds to determine impartiality, says a legal opinion published Thursday. Speaking about the team responsible f... (more story)

KakaoPay loses court challenge over Alipay data transfers in South Korea

June 11, 2026 | Jenny Lee

Asia

KakaoPay has lost its court challenge against South Korea's privacy regulator over the transfer of roughly 40 million customers' personal data to Alipay, with a Seoul court ruling that the fintech company hand... (more story)

China's Jiangxi regulators warn hospital, company over website breaches

June 11, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: A hospital and a company in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, were found to have websites compromised by malicious backdoor files, exposing their systems to significant cybersecurity risks, after the v... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Daiichi Sankyo's trademark win falls short on online-monitoring costs

June 11, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

A Tokyo court ordered an individual seller on an online marketplace to pay Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare for selling health products that used the company’s trademarked branding, but refused to make the seller cov... (more story)

China's expanding use of patent arbitration faces crucial test in SEP licensing disputes

June 11, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China's top court in a 2025 ruling provided another indication of its support for arbitration as a mechanism for resolving intellectual property disputes. Yet the significance of the ruling extends beyond the ... (more story)

Irish 'Whistler' barred as Indian court upholds territorial trademark rights

June 11, 2026

Asia

Irish distiller Robert A. Merry has been barred from using “Whistler” trademarks in India. The Delhi High Court reaffirmed territorial trademark rights and held that global reputation alone cannot substitute f... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Johnson tapped by Trump to head US consumer finance watchdog

June 10, 2026

North America

MLex Summary:  Brian Johnson, reportedly a Capital One executive who formerly worked for US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins's firm, Patomak Global Partners consultancy, was tapped by Presi... (more story)

Smartmatic cites Adani case in push to dismiss US bribery case for vindictiveness

June 10, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: To support its effort to obtain discovery related to an effort to dismiss a corruption case for vindictive prosecution, Smartmatic cited the pending request from the government to dismiss fraud a... (more story)

Consumer law group says US CFPB can't create mandate for immigration status

June 10, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The National Consumer Law Center said the US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot impose a requirement that lenders consider immigration status. A CFPB statement advised lenders to conside... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US CFTC outlines prediction market rules for framework

June 10, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission released draft rules for prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket that would set up a framework for evaluating case by case whether wager contracts are illeg... (more story)

TD retail banker sentenced to prison in US for taking bribes, laundering money

June 10, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: A former retail banker at TD Bank, Leonardo Ayala, was sentenced to 24 months in prison for accepting bribes and facilitating the laundering of more than $5.5 million to Colombia. 

Ireland wants deals on key EU financial files while chairing legislative talks

June 10, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

Ireland says it will try to seal political deals with EU lawmakers on key, and often tricky, financial reforms during its time chairing legislative talks for the bloc's member states between July and December ... (more story)

Trade View More

China trade up 15.3% in Jan.-May; ministry vows export, import support

June 11, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: China will continue pursuing high-level opening-up policies, stabilize exports and expand imports to support global economic stability, a Ministry of Commerce spokesperson said at a regular press... (more story)

US agricultural groups point to longstanding issues in USMCA enforcement

June 10, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker

North America

US agricultural industry stakeholders told a House panel about longstanding issues with Canadian and Mexican compliance under the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement that they hope the three member countries will addre... (more story)

Trump faces regulatory squeeze from ranchers over beef imports

June 10, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

The Trump administration is struggling to balance pressure from both ranchers and consumers as it seeks to increase beef imports to better manage a struggling market that is becoming a key issue ahead of the m... (more story)

State Aid View More

€10m Austrian aid to cleantech cleared by EU watchdog

June 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Companies investing in additional manufacturing capacity for the production of net-zero technologies, including their main specific components, will be eligible for direct grants, under a €10 mil... (more story)

Czechia sees EU drop foreign-susbidy probe of Dukovany powerplant

June 08, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and the Czech government have avoided intervention under the EU's rules against distortive foreign subsidies, with the bloc closing a probe into a deal to provide nuclear reactors a... (more story)

Tiberis case puts Italy's renewable-energy incentives before EU judges

June 08, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Italy’s highest administrative court has asked EU judges whether a European Commission state-aid approval decision prevents national courts from assessing whether Italy’s renewable-energy support... (more story)

Energy View More

German chemical giant Dow at EU court over plant's emissions classification

June 11, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: German chemical producer Dow is at the EU General Court on Thursday to challenge a European Commission decision under the EU Emissions Trading System that classified one of its plants as a high-e... (more story)

EU governments, lawmakers reach provisional deal on stronger carbon market reserve

June 11, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU governments and lawmakers reached a provisional deal to strengthen the carbon permit market safeguard for the planned emissions pricing system covering buildings, road transport and other sect... (more story)

Philippine competition regulator flags structural advantages in power retail sector

June 11, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission said a study of the retail electricity market found high concentration and structural advantages for retail electricity suppliers affiliated with major power... (more story)

Technology View More

Australian government advancing plans for 'digital duty of care' legislation

June 11, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Oceania

The Australian government is developing "a digital duty of care" that will require online platforms to proactively identify and reduce risks of harm, particularly to children, through ongoing risk assessments,... (more story)

Optus contravened privacy laws in phone-directory breach, Australian regulator says

June 11, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: Australian mobile-network operator Singtel Optus failed to take reasonable steps to protect customers’ personal information from unauthorized disclosure in the White Pages directory, the privacy ... (more story)

US DOJ acting antitrust chief Assefi to depart agency June 29

June 10, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Omeed Assefi, the acting antitrust chief at the US Department of Justice, will depart the agency at the end of June in another high-profile departure from the Antitrust Division during the second Trump adminis... (more story)