Brazil looks closer at Google, Microsoft AI deals, closes other Big Tech probes
May 13, 2026
| Flavia Fortes and Maria Júlia Baumert
Brazil’s competition authority is requiring Google and Microsoft to notify the agency of certain AI startup deals that fall below mandatory merger filing thresholds, while dropping probes into some other Big T... (more story)
Paramount defends WBD deal, maintains commitment to movie releases in letter to Calif. AG
May 13, 2026
| Curtis Eichelberger
Paramount Skydance sent California Attorney General Rob Bonta a letter May 7 addressing the state’s antitrust concerns over Paramount’s $111 billion proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in hopes of a... (more story)
Brazil's CADE delays ruling in Amazon-Anthropic partnership investigation
May 13, 2026
| Flavia Fortes and Maria Júlia Baumert
The Brazilian competition authority has postponed a ruling on its investigation of Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic, saying that it needs to investigate the case further to determine whether the tech giant ... (more story)
Charter, Cox scheduling proposal in California opposed by Media Alliance
May 13, 2026
| Wesley Brown
Media Alliance, a nonprofit organization, expressed its opposition to a proposed settlement filing timeline submitted by Charter and Cox, arguing that the companies put themselves in a time crunch and that the... (more story)
Overhaul of UK CMA's panel system outlined in Competition Reform Bill
May 13, 2026
| Jon Menon
UK legislation to re-engineer the system of decision making for in-depth merger and market probes at the country’s antitrust regulator will be introduced by the government. The Competition Reform Bill will giv... (more story)
UK businesses to get sandboxes, growth duty expands under regulatory reform bill
May 13, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
UK businesses can expect regulators to be given stronger duties to support economic growth and new powers to temporarily relax rules for testing AI under legislation announced Wednesday. The proposed Regulatin... (more story)
EU rejects referral of Vanderlande-Siemens Logistics baggage handling deal
May 13, 2026
| Andrew Boyce
The EU’s merger regulator has declined to review Vanderlande's €300 million takeover of Siemens Logistics, saying it wouldn’t be “appropriate” to investigate a transaction that was implemented more than one ye... (more story)
Discuss efficiencies even when no concerns, EU merger official tells dealmakers
May 13, 2026
| Andrew Boyce
EU merger officials are willing to discuss potential benefits emerging from deals, even in cases that don’t ultimately give rise to competition concerns, an EU competition official said. But Daniele Calisti sa... (more story)