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US regulators to use same playbook for battling social-media harms to assess chatbots
From US courts to the halls of Congress, AI chatbots are seen as the next frontier in online harm to children, and regulators are using the same strategy to address it.
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South Korea plans sharp increases in antitrust fines
South Korea is preparing to significantly raise antitrust fines in a bid to make antitrust violations economically unviable. Under the penalty reform, the country's... (more story)
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Amazon Web Services defeats Subspace’s amended US antitrust claims
Amazon Web Services won dismissal of antitrust allegations that it illegally tried to drive Subspace omega, a network optimization service provider, out of business.
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The Competition and Markets Authority's workforce declined by 14 percent in the year to November, after the UK antitrust watchdog offered a voluntary exit program for employees. The number of full-time equival... (more story)
Metal smelter ZML Industries plans to appeal the nearly €16 million fine imposed by Italy’s antitrust authority for operating in cast-iron cartel. The penalty forms part of a €70 million fine levied on 16 meta... (more story)
A fight between the reselling platform Ticombo and the Belgian state over the terms for online ticket sales will come before the EU's highest court, clarifying whether national law should protect the exclusive... (more story)
Italy’s antitrust authority has fined 16 metal smelters and trade association Assofond €70 million, for coordinating cast-iron price increases between 2004 and 2024. Camozzi Group-owned Fonderie Mora Gavardo, ... (more story)
Epic Games’ US antitrust battles could wind down in 2026 after a key appellate ruling against Apple and a proposed settlement with Google. Still, issues remain to be worked out at the district court level in b... (more story)
The US Patent and Trademark Office on Monday announced the formation of a standard-essential patent (SEP) working group. The move follows recent statements of interest from office leadership favoring stronger ... (more story)
South Korea’s antitrust regulator has flagged gaps in the enforcement decree of the country’s competition law. In a new Data and Competition policy report, the Korea Fair Trade Commission said the decree lacks... (more story)
A senior adviser at a top economic think tank under China’s main planning agency has laid out a broad blueprint for governing the platform economy, calling for graded, full-chain and technology-enabled regulat... (more story)
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Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti has laid out his vision for US antitrust law enforcement which includes cases that have a more streamlined narrative and are less economically complex, along with s... (more story)
China weaponized antitrust in 2025, deploying it both as a geopolitical lever against US corporate giants and as a mechanism for domestic stimulus. By dismantling internal market barriers while easing enforcem... (more story)
National regulators are pushing the European Commission to avoid scrapping a provision that allows them to sanction companies that are abusive to smaller rivals, but not big enough to be classified as the domi... (more story)
Gamesmanship by certain law firms involved in antitrust or merger cases continues to impede competition enforcers, and such misbehavior ought to be publicly challenged, according to Mark Meador, the most recen... (more story)
Japan’s antitrust watchdog is set to recalibrate its enforcement in 2026, stepping up protection for smaller businesses and policing Big Tech under a new smartphone law, as debates emerge over how competition ... (more story)
The rejection of Apple’s argument by a US appeals court that the Supreme Court’s Trump v. CASA decision undermined an injunction in the Epic Games antitrust litigation is another indication that lower courts a... (more story)
With the UK’s collective action regime marking a 10-year anniversary, a drop in filings amid key procedural questions, legislative change and a looming government review have raised questions about the outlook... (more story)
Corporate executives under pressure to present Wall Street with rosy pictures of future business prospects should take heed of the cautionary tales offered by a trio of recent US antitrust lawsuits where defen... (more story)