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January 15, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Artificial Intelligence
January 14, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Energy, Technology, Trade
January 14, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Antitrust View More
January 15, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Google's deeply integrated businesses in advertising technology present a special structural risk that online markets will continue to suffer, the European Commission said. In a decision published on Thursday,... (more story)
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Data portability in the insurance sector could save consumers between C$1.1 billion (US $791 million) and C$3.8 billion (US $2.7 billion) in annual costs, according to a report by Canada’s Compet... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has released a provisional version of its September decision to fine Google €2.95 billion euros for abusing its power over the adtech industry. The text stresses the struc... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A cross-party coalition of EU lawmakers is calling for a ban on AI-powered nudity applications in the EU, following a backlash on X's AI model Grok generating non-consensual intimate images and c... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Polish prosecutors are once again looking into a case concerning the generation and publication of an image of a nude schoolgirl, created with the help of artificial intelligence, which law enfor... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi and Júlia Tar
Europe
EU lawmakers are settling key roles regarding the European Parliament’s handling of packages of amendments to the AI Act and GDPR. The AI package is further advanced, with lawmakers Michael McNamara and Arba K... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 15, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
US catering company Aramark said it plans to contest a decision by the UK antitrust regulator to make it unwind its acquisition of smaller Scottish rival Entier after the authority concluded that the deal woul... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Latin America
The Chilean competition authority is investigating Anglo American’s proposed $53 billion merger with Teck Resources. The agency declared the mining companies’ notification complete after requiring amendments t... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Aramark must unwind its acquisition of Entier, the UK antitrust regulator said after concluding that the deal will harm competition in the market for offshore catering and facilities management. ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Joi.com, an AI companion website run by Novi, is being investigated by Ofcom over whether it has failed to prevent children from accessing pornographic content, the UK online safety regulator sai... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK’s Information Commissioner Office has updated its guidance on international data transfers, so as to make compliance easier, the regulator said on Thursday. The update introduces a three-s... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Snapchat has changed how it assesses the risk of illegal content appearing on its platform after an intervention by Ofcom, the UK online safety regulator said on Thursday. Ofcom had raised concer... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 15, 2026 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss
Europe
Apart from handling infringement cases and revoking multiple patents this week, the Unified Patent Court clarified the nature of unitary patents under EU law. Microsoft secured a win with the revocation of a S... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Lego has lost its appeal against a ruling that the design of one of its blocks is invalid, after a Chinese company successfully argued that it was too similar to another block previously produced by the Danish... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU lawmakers are backing voluntary AI licensing deals in a non-binding report on copyright and generative AI, signaling how creators should be paid as the European Commission prepares a broader copyright revie... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 14, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Swedish lender Swedbank said the US Justice Department has closed a money laundering investigation without filing charges, and that a probe by the New York State Department of Financial Services continues.
January 14, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
The past management of Home REIT, a UK-listed social housing company, is under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office as part of a probe into suspected bribery and fraud involving £300 million. The SFO said... (more story)
January 13, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
The US Securities and Exchange Commission’s enforcement division had a “markedly slower” year in fiscal 2025 compared to the year before and the lowest level of activity in 10 years, a private analysis by the ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 15, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
Veteran German center-right lawmaker Markus Ferber will lead talks in the European Parliament on the so-called “master regulation" section of a jumbo EU legislative package designed to better integrate and sup... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Mastercard, Visa and Revolut have lost their claims for judicial review against a move by the UK’s payments regulator to cap cross-border interchange fees, following a ruling by the UK High Court.
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Mastercard, Visa and Revolut have failed in claims for judicial review against a move by the UK’s payments regulator to cap cross-border interchange fees. In a ruling, the UK High Court said the ... (more story)
Trade View More
January 15, 2026
North America
MLex summary: US import prices increased 0.4 percent from September to November, while export prices increased 0.5 percent in the same time period, according to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. T... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has preliminarily determined that lattice bloom crawler cranes from Japan are dumped in the US.
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU leaders will press to deepen trade ties and wrap up the bloc’s trade deal with India, when European Council President António Costa and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meet ... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Germany's plan to spend €200 million to support the generation of renewable hydrogen and its derivatives in Canada has secured EU state aid approval, the European Commission said Thursday. The re... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has released its 2025 State Aid Scoreboard, showing that in 2024, EU countries spent 90 percent of their state funds on backing key EU priorities. More funds were channele... (more story)
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spanish private-post association Asempre and logistics organization UNO have lost their legal challenge against their earlier court loss over the European Commission's 2020 approval of Spanish ai... (more story)
Energy View More
January 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU applied on Thursday a new automatic system to adjust the price limit on Russian crude oil, lowering it to $44.10 per barrel. The change takes effect from Feb. 1, with older contracts allow... (more story)
January 14, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Global temperatures in 2025 were the third-highest on record, while Europe also experienced its third-warmest year, according to the latest EU’s Copernicus climate report. Copernicus warned curre... (more story)
January 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Former Goldman Sachs banker Asante Berko faces a “tentative” US trial date in July on corruption charges stemming from his alleged role in a bribery scheme in Ghana. The trial is expected to last around two we... (more story)
Technology View More
January 15, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
X's move to suspend and geoblock certain image editing features on Grok has been welcomed by the UK government as the country’s online regulator said it was “working round the clock” on its investigation into ... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
Major companies in telecommunications, retail, and other sectors that handle large volumes of personal data will face advance inspections by South Korea's privacy regulator as part of its shift from reactive p... (more story)
January 15, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
A group of federal appellate judges zeroed in on whether California’s Age-Appropriate Design Code can be blocked in full based on the law’s threshold test for services “likely to be accessed by children.”