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Artificial Intelligence
March 12, 2026 | Amy Miller and Emma Whitford
North America
Trade
March 12, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
Financial Crime
March 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
March 12, 2026 | Alex Wilts
North America
California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the US Department of Justice’s “inadequate” settlement with Live Nation Entertainment came as a surprise and “flies in the face of our partnership on the case.”
March 12, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
André Luís Macagnan Freire, chief counsel at the Office of the Attorney General at the Brazilian competition authority, told MLex in an exclusive interview he intends to seek an extension of his mandate, which... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Google has been ordered by a French commercial court to pay €22.69 million to French television channel M6 as damages for having used its market power to favor its own online advertising services... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 12, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Anthropic has asked a federal appeals court for an immediate stay of the Defense Department’s administrative directive that the AI company is a national security threat to supply chains, saying the action “vio... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Amy Miller
North America
Regulatory certainty for artificial intelligence remains a pipe dream three months after President Donald Trump signed an executive order discouraging “onerous” US state laws governing AI. Absent predictabilit... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU parliamentary officials provisionally agreed to tighten value chain duties under the AI Act, extending cooperation obligations to general-purpose AI model providers and making breaches sanctionable. The cha... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 12, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski
Europe, North America
California Attorney General Rob Bonta emphasized Thursday that film studio Paramount Skydance’s plan to acquire rival Warner Bros. Discovery would elicit a “close look” from state antitrust law enforcers who a... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Wesley Brown
North America
Concerns regarding Nexstar Media Group's proposed acquisition of Tegna are plentiful, despite the deal getting the blessings of President Donald Trump and US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan ... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Matthew Newman and Lewis Crofts
Europe
European officials shouldn’t overregulate the telecom sector and should allow companies to “scale up” so they can compete globally, Timotheus Höttges, Deutsche Telekom’s chief executive, said on Thursday. The ... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Florida and 16 other states filed an amicus brief urging the US Supreme Court to "rein in the judicial expansion” of Section 230 of the Communications Act, saying it should not prohibit states fr... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Calling the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act a "Trojan Horse" of online censorship, tech industry group NetChoice said a decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit leaves... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
While the latest child online safety package from the US House of Representatives includes bills of the same name that have already been passed by the Senate, the chambers' different versions are likely to cau... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson
Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania
Moderna agreed to settle a COVID-19 patent case for up to $2.25 billion, in what could be the largest patent infringement settlement figure in pharma history. Multiple patent pools also announced expansions.
March 12, 2026 | Nick Robertson and Melissa Ritti
North America
On the heels of recent decisions upholding his near-total discretion over America Invents Act patent challenges, US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Wednesday singled out the domestic footp... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Charlotte Westphal and Inbar Preiss
Europe
This week, the Unified Patent Court referred questions to the EU's top court to clarify cross-border jurisdiction and intermediary liability in a case involving Dyson. The court also closed several proceedings... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 12, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US Department of Justice is planning to widen its enforcement of trade compliance by going after more key actors involved in duty evasion, including those who have no direct interaction with customs offici... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A group of Senate Democrats is proposing to extend the statute of limitations for a key anti-bribery law to give future administrations additional time to prosecute Trump-era corporate corruption. Though unlik... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Martin Coyle and Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe
Former UK Serious Fraud Office head David Green has intervened on behalf of UBS in the investment bank’s defense against a $400 million US lawsuit filed by former trader Tom Hayes. “The decision to prosecute M... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission is seeking public input on whether to issue or change rules related to event contracts traded on prediction markets. The agency’s advanced notice of pr... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
US Senator Thom Tillis said he remains determined to block President Trump’s nomination of Kevin Warsh for Federal Reserve chair as long as a Trump administration's criminal investigation of Fed chair Jerome P... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Michelle Bowman, the US Federal Reserve’s vice chair for supervision, outlined upcoming Basel III and Global Systemically Important Bank surcharge proposals, saying that combined they would decrease capital re... (more story)
Trade View More
March 12, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker
Asia, North America
Domestic fencing manufacturers told the US International Trade Commission that petitioner ZND’s struggles in the temporary steel fencing market stem from its own product decisions, not from unfairly priced Chi... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Chief Judge Mark Barnett set an April 10 hearing for consideration of summary judgement in a pair of lawsuits by a coalition of 24 Democrat-led states and two smal... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in France next week, Greer said in a statement.
State Aid View More
March 12, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
The risk that an energy-price spike may see companies exploit customers requires the attention of antitrust enforcers, but regulators are better prepared after past conflicts, Teresa Ribera said. The EU's comp... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Publishers of printed press and periodicals will be eligible for direct grants, under a Spanish plan worth €70 million to support them in the acquisition of digitalization solutions such as edit... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved €260 million of Belgian state aid in favor of Air Liquide and BASF, earmarked for the development of Kairos@C, a carbon capture and storage project. The CCS p... (more story)
Energy View More
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Weakening the 2030 car CO2 target as proposed by the European Commission would make the average electric car €2,300 more expensive in 2030 than under the current objective and reduce the sector’s... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Truck manufacturers will be allowed to bank additional emission credits before 2030 and use them later for compliance, after the European Parliament voted on Thursday to amend heavy-duty vehicle ... (more story)
March 12, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
EU countries are to notify the International Energy Agency by 6pm Thursday evening if they opt to release any oil from strategic reserves as part of a 400 million-barrel coordinated action amid the Iran crisis... (more story)
Technology View More
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senator Josh Hawley urged the US Supreme Court to review a case bringing privacy and sex-trafficking claims against X Corp. in order to rule that nothing in the text, structure, or history of ... (more story)
March 12, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Most of a California law that imposes restrictions on companies to protect children online can go into effect, according to a ruling by a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Nint... (more story)
March 12, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission and the European Data Protection Board on Thursday published more than 100 contributions to their consultation on the interplay of the Digital Markets Act and the EU’s Gen... (more story)