Technology
November 12, 2026 | Imogen Howse
Europe
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property, Technology
November 11, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
November 11, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
November 12, 2026 | Jean Comte
Dutch state railway operator Nederlandse Spoorwegen, or NS, said it is switching to a new system for selling its used rolling stock through a dedicated website after a European Commission probe raised concerns it was refus...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Maria Júlia Baumert
Latin America
Brazil’s competition investigative unit will press CADE’s Tribunal to reconsider its new approach to limitation periods, interim Superintendent Felipe Roquete said at an event in São Paulo, highlighting a rare institutiona...(read more)
November 12, 2026
MLex Summary: French supermarkets Auchan, Intermarché and Casino have been informed by French antitrust investigators of possible competition problems relating to their Aura buying alliance. The inquiry is based on a provi...(read more)
North America
MLex Summary: Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceX Super Intelligence are facing Unfair Competition Law claims in San Francisco Superior Court by nonprofits The Alliance for Secure AI, Irreplaceable Education Fund, P...(read more)
MLex Summary: The UK and Norway are exploring closer cooperation between the UK’s AI Security Institute and AI Norway on the security, testing and evaluation of artificial intelligence technologies, the governments said in...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Masha Borak
Finland and Estonia have urged the EU to build independent capacity to evaluate advanced AI models and establish a response system for serious AI incidents. In a joint letter ahead of Friday’s meeting of EU leaders in Dubl...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Anna Lauwereys
Energy group Enilive has sought EU merger approval to buy gas station operator OIL Tankstellen, according to an update on the regulator’s website on Thursday. The European Commission has set provisional deadline of Dec. 17...(read more)
A vessel-sharing agreement between ZIM and Hapag-Lloyd has come under scrutiny in Brazil’s competition authority review of their transaction. The agreement began operating in September on the route connecting Asia and the ...(read more)
MLex Summary: Brazil’s competition authority is expected to vote on Nov. 18 on Novamed’s acquisition of Medley in the pharmaceutical sector. The Administrative Council for Economic Defense, or CADE, is also set to decide o...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Júlia Tar
A new negotiating draft of the proposed EU law to compel digital platforms to assess and mitigate risks related to child sexual-abuse material would burden online service providers with more detailed requirements for selec...(read more)
UK healthcare leaders have been asked to personally vouch for their organizations' safeguards against staff snooping on patient records after the country's privacy regulator said it had received more than 300 reports of un...(read more)
MLex Summary: UK health leaders have been asked by the country's privacy regulator to confirm by November 27 that their organizations' safeguards prevent and detect unauthorized access to patient records. In a letter publi...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Steve Scherer
Europe, North America
GSK and Moderna’s cross-license offers vaccine rivals a possible route through overlapping pipelines and uncertain patent litigation, lawyers told MLex. A pending US appeal could limit recovery against Moderna for governme...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and MLex Staff
Asus defeated Ericsson’s bid for an injunction over a video-coding patent, after Unified Patent Court judges found Ericsson had failed to give adequate notice before suing. GSK also secured a vaccine injunction against Pfi...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
A single copyright license can cover both sharing users’ uploads and storing the necessary copies on platforms’ servers, EU judges have ruled. The decision clarifies the rules for online platforms and music collecting soci...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
An executive of medical device company Balt who has been referred to as “John Doe” on the court docket in a US corruption case has asked a judge to let him skip a public appearance at an upcoming hearing. “Once disclosed, ...(read more)
MLex Summary: A US judge has granted a request to adjourn the fraud and money laundering trial of a former chief executive of the Subway restaurant supply cooperative and her brother to January 2027, according to a court o...(read more)
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: Former Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's resignation Thursday does not "absolve him, other executives, or the company as a whole of responsibility for putting our national security at risk or for any potential violat...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Fanny Roux
The European Parliament on Thursday rejected a deal with EU governments on a legislative proposal to boost retail investment in the bloc. The rejection leaves the future of the legislation uncertain, with opposition from l...(read more)
MLex Summary: Former HealthBeacon employee Alan Dalton has been fined €67,580 by the Irish Central Bank for insider trading after he twice wrongly sold shares in the medical devices company. The regulator said that Dalton ...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan
Asia
Indonesia's financial regulators are strengthening cybersecurity defenses amid heightened cyber threats to banks and other financial institutions. The Financial Services Authority and Bank Indonesia have activated cyber in...(read more)
MLex Summary: Jensen Huang has resigned as chief executive of US chip-maker Nvidia, the Board of Directors said. The announcement follows reports that Huang had extramarital affairs, including with a businesswoman who US i...(read more)
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: China has expressed serious concerns to Germany and Portugal over reported restrictions on Chinese equipment in their 5G networks, Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong said at a press conference on Thu...(read more)
MLex Summary: China has fully implemented the consensus reached during eight rounds of economic and trade talks with the US since May 2025, Chinese Ministry of Commerce spokesperson He Yadong said at a press briefing on Th...(read more)
MLex Summary: Moves by a private citizen to seek damages from the European Commission for intervening in a Latvian court case about the rescue of Parex banka should fail, according to a legal opinion for the EU's highest c...(read more)
November 11, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
The European Commission should consider bringing together independent advice on competition cases into a single opinion that could better inform subsequent court scrutiny, EU General Court judge Johannes Laitenberger has s...(read more)
November 10, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Cases before the EU's highest court may proceed more quickly, even when they raise a new legal question, after a change in approach that means no advisory opinion is needed if the answer is clear. Maciej Szpunar, first Adv...(read more)
MLex Summary: UK-based energy company Aquind's challenge to the EU energy regulator's refusal to grant an exemption from the bloc's electricity market rules for its planned UK-France interconnector should be partly rejecte...(read more)
MLex Summary: Poland's legal challenges to seven key pieces of the EU's climate legislation were rejected by the bloc's top court on Thursday, upholding major elements of its Fit for 55 package. The cases concerned carbon ...(read more)
November 11, 2026
MLex Summary: The EU supports a global pledge to increase electricity's share of final energy consumption to 35 percent by 2035, the so-called 35-by-35 Global Electrification Pledge, European Commission President Ursula vo...(read more)
November 12, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Meta Platforms and ByteDance’s TikTok on Thursday urged the EU’s highest court to uphold judgments annulling decisions setting their Digital Services Act supervisory fees, with Meta’s lawyer warning that the European Commi...(read more)
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been fined £450,000 ($597,015) by the UK's communications regulator for providing inaccurate information about its WhatsApp Business service. Ofcom said in a statement Thursday that the com...(read more)
MLex Summary: A dispute between T‑2 and Telekom Slovenije over network access has seen the EU’s top court rule that telecoms operators cannot halt regulatory proceedings simply by taking the same dispute to court. T‑2 had ...(read more)