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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
March 10, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Data Privacy and Security, Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
Financial Crime
March 09, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Antitrust View More
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Inform, Inc. opposed Google’s motion for judgment against US antitrust claims, saying it ignores the evidence in the case to reach a flawed conclusion. It also argued that Google selectively stri... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Sony deliberately closed off its PlayStation game platform to control the retailing of games and lock out competitors, a UK mass claimant pursuing compensation from the company told a UK judge on Wednesday. At... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Middle East
MLex Summary: The Turkish competition authority has started a probe of several companies from the audit sector, including the local branches of Deloitte and Ernst & Young, the regulator said on Wednesday. The ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Center for Countering Digital Hate, an advocacy group, has said that eight out of 10 AI chatbots were regularly willing to assist users in the planning of violent attacks. The CCDH's research... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Nvidia told EU judges that an EU move to scrutinize its takeover of Israeli startup Run:ai amounted to another “unlawful attempt” by the bloc's merger regulator to expand its review powers “without legislative... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Frank Hersey and Sofia Gerace
Europe
Sensible standards are needed for governing AI in financial services firms, said an official from the financial watchdog, noting that companies are turning to voluntary standards in the meantime. Sheldon Mills... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 11, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
Getty Images may have to divest almost all of the editorial business of Shutterstock to ease antitrust concerns over the merger of the companies, under one scenario proposed by the UK regulator. The Competitio... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Cintas Corp. has agreed to acquire UniFirst Corp. in a transaction worth about $5.5 billion, according to a press release. The combined company would service roughly 1.5 million business customer... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK antitrust regulator is seeking feedback on structural remedies to ease its concerns over Getty Images’ planned acquisition of Shutterstock. The deadline for feedback is on March 18, the Co... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 11, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Online platforms are facing an increased risk of losing the EU legal basis to continue voluntarily detecting and reporting online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, after plans to extend temporary rules wer... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Asia
MLex summary: The Philippines' National Privacy Commission is calling for public input on proposed policies governing access to medical records and the use of pseudonyms in published decisions under the Data P... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Dutch judges are seeking clarity from the EU’s top court on whether a public authority running a database funded by public money can qualify as a “maker” under the European Database Directive, an... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 11, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
Cross-industry guidelines clarifying how competition law applies to transactions involving intellectual property rights, know-how and data will be issued in Japan, the country’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesd... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Standard-essential patent disputes should be steered back toward their contractual core rather than stretched to fit antitrust enforcement, a senior Chinese antitrust adviser said at a conference Wednesday in Shenzhen.
March 11, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
China’s top court is pressing ahead with new guidelines on data-rights protection, according to a senior judge, underscoring the growing urgency for legal clarity as disputes rise alongside the commercial use ... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 11, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
The basis for reaching a deferred prosecution agreement in the US money laundering and sanctions violations case against Turkish state-owned lender Hankbank is a matter for the executive branch, a prosecutor t... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary and Poland have been told they must correctly transpose EU rules against fraud to the EU's financial interests by means of criminal law within two months or they could be referred to the ... (more story)
March 10, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A US judge granted default judgment for the government in its forfeiture action involving more than 2,200 units of Solana cryptocurrency that was tied to a theft perpetuated by North Korean hacke... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Central Bank has published its plan for Appia, an initiative to shape the development of a European tokenized financial ecosystem in which central bank money continues to play a cent... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Aviva unit U K Insurance Limited, or UKI Limited, has been fined £10,625,000 by the UK's prudential regulator over a miscalculation of their Solvency II balance sheet during 2023 and 2024. UKI Li... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Sofia Gerace and Fanny Roux
Europe
A host of familiar financial-sector topics will be up for discussion as officials meet at the EU-UK Financial Regulatory Forum on Wednesday. The UK industry is pushing for earlier dialogue to improve predictab... (more story)
Trade View More
March 11, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department said it is complying with a court order to determine T-type tires are included within the scope of an antidumping duty order on passenger vehicle and light truck tires from Taiwan.
March 11, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
The European Commission is considering capping or subsidizing gas prices as part of potential changes to the EU electricity market design aimed at cutting energy costs, commission President Ursula von der Leye... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: EU lawmakers on Wednesday called for a faster ratification by the member states of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement with Canada, which started to apply provisionally in 2017. The ca... (more story)
State Aid View More
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)
March 10, 2026 | Karoline Del Vecchio
Europe
An investigation into Spain's plan to grant €20.7 million in regional aid to carmaker Peugeot for investing in its existing plant in Vigo has been closed. In a formal notice issued Tuesday, the European Commis... (more story)
Energy View More
March 11, 2026
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America
MLex Summary: The International Energy Agency's 32 member countries will release a record 400 million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves in a bid to address disruptions in oil markets stemming from t... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Energy security is a cornerstone of EU-Azerbaijan bilateral cooperation, European Council President António Costa has said. Speaking after a meeting in Baku on Wednesday, he described the partner... (more story)
March 11, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Belgium must respond to a request to provide an updated electricity risk preparedness plan within two months or face further EU action, the European Commission has said. The country had failed to... (more story)
Technology View More
March 11, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top judicial authorities intensified a crackdown on emerging forms of cybercrime last year, targeting offenses enabled by artificial intelligence and online platforms as Beijing tightens oversight of t... (more story)
March 11, 2026 | Khushita Vasant
North America
A New York federal judge on Tuesday ordered Live Nation to try to hammer out a settlement with 39 US states and the District of Columbia that resolves the states' monopolization claims against the company whil... (more story)
March 11, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Google agreed to drop its request for US Supreme Court review of its antitrust dispute with Epic Games. The parties notified the court that they had agreed to dismiss the case.