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Artificial Intelligence
February 13, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
Financial Crime, Trade
February 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust, Data Privacy and Security, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions, Technology
February 13, 2026 | Khushita Vasant and Claude Marx
North America
Antitrust View More
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton opened an investigation into firetruck manufacturers for potential anticompetitive conduct following complaints raised by Texas municipalities and their fire dep... (more story)
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Authors filed an amended US class action complaint accusing Amazon.com of illegally maintaining a monopoly over the audiobook market, allowing it to charge excessive prices to authors for the dis... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Commercial Real Estate Exchange (CREXi) asked the US Supreme Court to deny rival CoStar’s bid for review of CREXi’s antitrust counterclaims, arguing the high court can not accept CoStar’s attempt to ignore the... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
February 13, 2026 | Frank Hersey
Europe
UK financial services’ adoption of AI is already benefitting from stress-testing techniques developed for assessing military uses of AI that can help the financial regulator understand what’s going on under th... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Autonomous AI agents pose cybersecurity risks, the Dutch data protection watchdog has warned. Agents like the open-source tool OpenClaw, which operates locally and can access emails, files and on... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Political priorities and a clear right-left divide are emerging in the European Parliament with the amendments presented on Thursday on the legislative package targeting the EU AI Act. Centrist and conservativ... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
February 13, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Ilana Kowarski
North America
A US district court’s move to block the Federal Trade Commission from requiring expanded premerger antitrust forms raises fresh uncertainty around the meaning of the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Ac... (more story)
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Masterbrand and American Woodmark continue to work with the US Federal Trade Commission after receiving a second request for additional information and documentary material, according to a securi... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
US-Japanese group Paloma Rheem's intended takeover of Groupe Atlantic will need clearance from the French government under its FDI vetting powers, MLex understands. France has made clear that it intends to fol... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
February 13, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Stanford University addiction psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke implicated nine platform features on Instagram and YouTube as potentially addictive for young users during an addictive design trial against social me... (more story)
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Edward J. Markey released a statement saying that the decision by Amazon’s Ring to end its partnership with Flock Safety is an important step in guarding against an ever-expanding netw... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
New Mexico closed out the first week of its consumer protection trial against Meta Platforms with expert testimony about the addictive design features of the company's products. Analyzing internal documents fr... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
February 13, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Xiamen Yan Palace Bird’s Nest Industry, a leading supplier of edible bird’s nest products in China, won an appeal in a trademark dispute after a Chinese court clarified the limits of the descriptive fair use defense.
February 13, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia, North America
Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court upheld a lower court ruling rejecting a website operator’s attempt to force Google to reinstate more than 4,500 URLs removed from search results under the US Digital Mi... (more story)
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Commercial Real Estate Exchange told the US Supreme Court that its monopolization claims against CoStar Group do not warrant its review, and it should oppose CoStar’s petition because there is no... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
February 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The US Treasury Department has relaxed its rules on customer due diligence, telling financial institutions on Friday that they no longer must identify the beneficial owner of a legal entity at each new account opening.
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order granting exceptive relief to covered financial institutions from certain requirements under its customer... (more story)
February 13, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department launched a new dedicated webpage to confidentially accept whistleblower tips on fraud, money laundering, and sanctions violations. Administered by Treasury's Financial ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
February 13, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The planned equity consolidated tape, a single feed of information on UK equity trading, will not resolve the rising cost of market data, a leading banking trade group has told the country's financial services... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Portuguese competition authority is seeking feedback on a study identifying "difficulties in the search for and comparison of banking products." The public consultation is opened until March 5.
February 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he has asked the White House to appoint two Democrats to fill the open seats at the agency, but “it takes two to tango.” The SEC has had a 3-0 Repub... (more story)
Trade View More
February 13, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
The Trump administration’s decision to expand the tariff-rate quota for Argentinian beef only offers a limited response to historic supply-side issues for the US cattle industry, highlighting the constraints o... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
US President Donald Trump spent much of his first year in office both threatening and enacting steep tariffs and other trade barriers on US trading partners. However, in recent weeks and months he has withdraw... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Court of International Trade remanded the Commerce Department’s circumvention finding on hardwood plywood from China, rejecting the federal agency’s broad use of questionnaires and determinations that c... (more story)
State Aid View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark secured European Commission approval on Friday for a €1.04 billion state aid plan aimed at enabling landowners to voluntarily withdraw agricultural or forestry land from production to cu... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission suspects that tax breaks and "preferential financing" handed to Goldwind by banks controlled by the Chinese state may distort competition in the EU, according to an offici... (more story)
February 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An EU in-depth state aid investigation into Lithuania's support to energy company AB Ignitis Gamyba for a strategic reserve for electricity covering the 2013-2018 period is now open for comments.... (more story)
Energy View More
February 13, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
France’s delayed energy plan confirms a strong push for nuclear power, including six third generation reactors and preparations for eight more, while scaling back renewable targets because of delays in electri... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: France aims to build six new nuclear reactors and launch a preparatory program for eight more, according to the Multiannual Energy Plan for the 2026-35 period released on Feb. 13. Targets for sol... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: European power companies should reinforce their security as electricity networks face growing physical and cyber threats linked to Russia’s war in Ukraine and other hybrid attacks, European elect... (more story)
Technology View More
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Denmark’s telecom security law and national risk assessments could be affected by a case referred by Estonian judges to the EU's top court, the Danish Ministry for Public Safety and Emergency Pre... (more story)
February 13, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A common approach to identify, evaluate and address cybersecurity risks was published in new guidance to safeguard Information and Communication Technologies supply chains by the European Commiss... (more story)
February 13, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The UK online safety regulator should face an expanded legal challenge over its transparency practices as campaign group Movement for an Open Web has applied to join a court case questioning Ofcom’s refusals t... (more story)