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Data Privacy and Security
January 28, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
January 28, 2026 | Mike Swift
North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 27, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Antitrust View More
January 28, 2026 | Andrew Boyce and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
EU and German competition laws to control the power of Big Tech companies are starting to have “an impact” even if it will take time for them to become fully effective, according to the head of the German comp... (more story)
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: HostGPO moved to dismiss US antitrust claims accusing it of monopolizing the market for vacation rental furnishings, saying Minoan Experience’s complaint lacks sufficient facts. HostGPO argued th... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
The UK competition regulator made errors in a case that led to fines against Pfizer and Flynn Pharma over epilepsy drug pricing, Pfizer has told the UK appeal court. The Competition and Markets Authority is al... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 28, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
The online safety debate in the UK is shifting from regulating platforms to proposals for banning under-16s from social media after lawmakers backed an amendment proposing a ban. But new data on harms linked t... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: 12 months into the UK’s masterplan for promoting AI adoption as a way to boost economic growth, three-quarters of the items on the 50-point list have been completed, the technology minister has s... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe, Latin America
Meta Platforms will start charging AI chatbots that are still able to use WhatsApp in Italy, in a revamp of its compliance with an antitrust order in the country. The move is designed to align AI services with... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 28, 2026 | Lewis Crofts and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Google and Wiz are expected to avoid an in-depth EU merger inquiry into their $32 billion deal, MLex has learned. The companies discussed their tie-up with EU merger officials Tuesday.
January 28, 2026
Europe, North America
MLex Summary: Sanofi and Dynavax Technologies have received merger clearances from the US and German antitrust authorities for their $2.2 billion deal, according to a securities filing.
January 28, 2026 | Flavia Fortes
Europe, North America
Sanofi and Dynavax Technologies have said the antitrust waiting period with the US antitrust authorities for their $2.2 billion deal expired on Jan. 27. The pharmaceutical companies also said they received cle... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 28, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo
North America
California Attorney General Rob Bonta warned Wednesday that the growing practice of using consumer data to personalize prices may violate California’s privacy law, announcing an investigative sweep of business... (more story)
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: Google has agreed to pay $135 million to settle litigation that the company's Android operating system illegally appropriated some users' cellular data. "Under the proposed Settlement, Settlement... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador called out the alleged mistreatment of children for profit by Big Tech companies Wednesday during a commission workshop.
Intellectual Property View More
January 28, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Entities empowered by the UK government to issue certification trademarks attesting to the origin of certain goods are now classified as public authorities and required to respond to Freedom of Information Act... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
Architecture practice Zaha Hadid Ltd took its fight to extricate itself from a licensing agreement obliging it to pay the Zaha Hadid Foundation forever to the UK Court of Appeal on Wednesday, arguing that a lo... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Lawmakers approved a non-binding report in a vote supporting voluntary licensing agreements between right holders and AI companies. The non-binding text calls for improved transparency for AI training data and... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 28, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former Pennsylvania coal sales executive can’t discuss an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on US anti-bribery enforcement at his upcoming corruption trial, a US judge has ruled. “I understand... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A former Nigerian oil minister facing bribery-related charges was secretly recorded telling an oil executive that she would "escort" him and others to jail as their working relationship broke down, a London co... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
Deutsche Bank offices in Frankfurt and Berlin were raided on Wednesday by prosecutors investigating suspected money laundering. “The bank is cooperating fully with the Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office. We ... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Crypto trading platform Coinbase has seen some its ads banned by the UK's advertising regulator because they had trivialized the risks associated with cryptocurrency investment. In a statement, t... (more story)
January 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark Meador spoke at an agency workshop on noncompete agreements, saying such agreements can be anticompetitive but that a one-size-fits-all remedy can't be applied ... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Cryptocurrency money laundering reached $82 billion in 2025, a more-than-eightfold increase since 2020, according to research released on Tuesday by the blockchain analytics company Chainalysis. After emerging... (more story)
Trade View More
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said after a meeting with Mexican Secretary of Economy Marcelo Ebrard that both countries agreed to start talks on "structural and strategic reforms" as par... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
France is calling for the use of “European preference” rules — which ensure that a certain number of parts of products are made within the EU — in key sectors, in a bid to help shield European industry. The dr... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
The nine European cities contending to host the new EU Customs Authority faced a grilling by a European Parliament committee on Wednesday dominated by questions over cybersecurity, logistics expertise and geog... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Zenobē Energy told a UK tribunal Wednesday that its UK appeal over an alleged unlawful subsidy made by the UK’s regulator of gas and electricity markets doesn't need a court hearing over narrowed-down issues. ... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won approval for its plan to spend €3.1 billion in public funding to back the production of electricity from new or refurbished highly efficient combined heat and power plants, the Euro... (more story)
January 27, 2026
Asia
MLex Summary: Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology said it signed on Monday a statement of intent with the US Department of Energy to deepen bilateral collaboration on artific... (more story)
Energy View More
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: More than 110 European cleantech companies and investors have urged the European Commission to introduce “Made in Europe” requirements in the planned Industrial Accelerator Act, warning that dela... (more story)
January 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission will invest almost €650 million to support 14 cross-border energy projects, focusing on electricity grids and hydrogen infrastructure. In a statement on Wednesday, the com... (more story)
January 27, 2026 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Indian companies exporting goods in scope of the EU's carbon border tax will receive technical support under the EU-India trade deal announced on Tuesday, a European Commission official said. The agreement als... (more story)
Technology View More
January 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: TechFreedom filed a brief with a US appeals court in support of NetChoice’s challenge to Arkansas’ social media age-verification law, saying it picks winners and losers in the marketplace of idea... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The choice of the next European Data Protection Supervisor, which has been pending for more than a year, matters for the “stability and authority” of the EU’s data protection authority, a senior official at th... (more story)
January 28, 2026 | Matthew Newman
Europe
The Digital Networks Act, the EU’s draft bill to revamp the bloc’s telecom laws, will be steered through the European Parliament by the centrist Renew Group, MLex has learned. The DNA, which was proposed last ... (more story)