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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
April 15, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property
April 15, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Financial Services
April 15, 2026 | Neil Roland
North America
Antitrust View More
April 16, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
The European Commission has published its revamped tech transfer rules, introducing guidance on data licensing and Licensing Negotiation Groups, and tightening conditions for patent pools. The update comes ami... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Online search giant Google has railed against a European Commission move to make it hand over search data to other AI chatbots, saying it includes “dangerously ineffective privacy protections.” The regulator o... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
The French competition authority has imposed a €12.7 million fine on Synadis, a trade union for organic products distributors, and on its members Greenweez, Comptoirs de la Bio and ITM Entreprises, the authori... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 16, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Senior executives from TikTok, Meta Platforms, Google and X met the UK prime minister on Thursday and were pressed to do more on child safety, hours after the latest vote by lawmakers from the ruling Labour pa... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU technology chief Henna Virkkunen said AI agents are covered by the AI Act as "mainly" having elements of general-purpose AI systems, as well as having the transparency requirements for generative AI. The Eu... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China’s top intelligence official has warned that military uses of artificial intelligence are emerging as a key front in great-power technological rivalry, highlighting Beijing’s concern that the technology c... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK antitrust regulator has provisionally decided that Getty Images’ plan to buy Shutterstock would require the divestment of the target's editorial assets in order to ease its concerns. The C... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Rheinmetall Digital and space systems developer OHB have secured German competition approval to form a joint venture to bid for a future Bundeswehr public procurement contract. The project focuse... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s four biggest K-pop agencies are seeking antitrust clearance to establish a joint venture for a new global music festival project, in a move that would bring some of the industry’s fiercest rivals... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 16, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez
Asia
Malaysia aims to roll out restrictions on social media access for users under 16 by mid-2026, prioritizing stricter age verification using the national ID system over less reliable age-assurance technologies, ... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU data protection authorities must guarantee GDPR access rights when handling complaints, as they act as “controllers” when processing personal data in such procedures, Rimvydas Norkus, an advis... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission’s proposed updated Cybersecurity Act risks undermining the bloc’s standardization system if it bars certain suppliers from participating, the European Telecommunications S... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 16, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Offline copies of audiovisual works provided by streaming platforms do not fall under the private copying exception of the EU's copyright law, the bloc's highest court said Thursday following a Dutch case agai... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A warning from a Japanese software copyright group to game bars exposes the country’s uneven copyright treatment of paid, on-premises access to works, highlighting why manga cafes developed under softer arrang... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
China is bringing greater coherence and enforcement power to its legal toolkit for responding to foreign legal measures, with new rules targeting what it describes as unjustified extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Financial Crime View More
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's Serious Fraud Office interim chief has pledged to invest in proactive intelligence and use innovative skills and techniques to enable the agency to strike earlier. In the foreword to the... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia's anti-money laundering agency has written to businesses in the wealth management sector with concerns about their “alarmingly” low suspicious matter reporting, or SMR. In a statement o... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has launched an overhaul of its regulatory reform framework, elevating the top decision-making body to a presidential-level committee and expanding its size as part of a broader push ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 16, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The new chief of the European Banking Authority, François-Louis Michaud, is set to simplify banking oversight while addressing challenges from digital innovations and enhancing banking competitiveness. He emph... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK Financial Conduct Authority's updated short-selling rules, including a new reporting timetable with extra time to calculate and submit short position reports, are set to enter into force o... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Payments made between American Express to airline KLM under co-branded card arrangements must be included when applying EU limits on card fees, the bloc’s top court ruled, even though KLM is not ... (more story)
Trade View More
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU dumping tariffs on imports of Chinese and Indonesian monosodium glutamate, set to lapse on April 20, will now be reassessed, to see if their expiry would lead to continued dumping and harm, th... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Yonnex Li
Asia
Hong Kong is poised to become home to China's first national manufacturing-innovation center outside the mainland, cooperating with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in the country's drive fo... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s gross domestic product grew 5 percent year on year in the first quarter to 33.4 trillion yuan ($4.89 trillion), National Bureau of Statistics Deputy Head Mao Shengyong said at a Thursday ... (more story)
State Aid View More
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Sweden has secured European Commission clearance to extend its program to increase the use of sustainable biofuels in the transport sector until the end of December 2032. The €1.3 billion measure... (more story)
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission on Thursday approved state aid plans for Germany, Bulgaria and Slovenia to grant temporary electricity price relief to energy-intensive industries. In line with the EU Cle... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: China’s State Council said in a reform guideline issued Wednesday that authorities may impose temporary controls on investment approvals, subject to State Council consent, in sectors facing disor... (more story)
Energy View More
April 16, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Hungary cannot tax free carbon emission permits in a way that undermines their purpose, the EU’s top court has said. Such a tax would weaken the system designed to encourage companies to cut emis... (more story)
April 15, 2026 | Louis de Briant and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
The European Commission plans to tax electricity below fossil fuels and allow zero tax rates for energy-intensive industries, according to an internal document. The draft also points to stronger use of EU emis... (more story)
April 15, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A key European Parliament committee has proposed changes to the extension of the EU Emissions Trading System that would accelerate allowance releases during price spikes, extend the €45 cap beyon... (more story)
Technology View More
April 16, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Wikimedia Foundation has been given an “ultimatum” by Indonesia's ministry of communication and digital affairs over its failure to complete the registration process as an electronic system provi... (more story)
April 16, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill called the jury verdict in a monopolization suit against Live Nation Entertainment "a significant win for Louisiana consumers." In a statement, Murrill said... (more story)
April 16, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld and Khushita Vasant
North America
Live Nation executives sent emails that "were not very professional," a juror told reporters Wednesday after delivering a clean-sweep victory to 33 US states and the District of Columbia in a monopolization trial.