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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology

September 19, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Standalone AI chatbots test limits of European online child-protection regimes

Energy, Financial Services, Trade

September 19, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Russian banks, energy companies, third countries targeted with new EU sanctions

Antitrust View More

US judge in Google search suit says scale of antitrust litigation 'challenging'

September 20, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

US District Judge Amit Mehta, who recently handed down a ruling in the nearly five-year old Internet search monopolization lawsuit brought by the government against Google, said the scale of antitrust cases is challenging.

RealPage settles rent-setting case with Nevada, with no admission of wrongdoing

September 20, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: RealPage has reached a settlement and consent judgment with the state of Nevada regarding its revenue management software use in Nevada and allegations of anticompetitive conduct. RealPage denied... (more story)

REX asks US Supreme Court to review Zillow, National Association of Realtors case

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Real Estate Exchange, or REX, asked the US Supreme Court to review its antitrust case challenging a National Association of Realtors “optional” rule over real estate listings. In its petition for... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

South Korea's LG AI unveils financial AI agent in partnership with London Stock Exchange

September 22, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo

Asia, Europe

South Korea’s LG AI Research and the London Stock Exchange Group have launched a financial AI agent that analyzes data, forecasts stock performance and explains results without human intervention. The move hig... (more story)

Twice as many in UK see AI as economic risk not as opportunity, finds poll

September 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Almost twice as many Britons see AI as a risk to the economy than see it as an opportunity, at 39 percent versus 20 percent, finds a poll carried out for the Tony Blair Institute. Fifty-nine perc... (more story)

Suno hit with amended 'stream ripping' complaint by music companies over AI-generated music

September 20, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: AI music company Suno was hit by additional allegations by UMG Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment and other record companies that the generative AI music startup acquired the music it trained i... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Seafood company Mowi's Nova Sea deal open for comments in EU

September 22, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Parties interested in Norwegian farm-raised salmon giant Mowi's plan to acquire control of Atlantic salmon farmer Nova Sea have ten days to provide feedback to the European Commission. The EU mer... (more story)

Australian antitrust regulator gives details on land leases, revenue tests

September 22, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: The Australian competition watchdog has published an updated "Frequently Asked Questions" document with additional details on land acquisitions and the “combined acquirer or target revenue test” ... (more story)

Fired DOJ official Rinner urges short US premerger form, praises former colleagues

September 19, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Fired Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bill Rinner complimented his former antitrust-enforcement colleagues in the Trump-Vance administration for their "surgical approach" to combating merger antitrust harms ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

South Korea makes trusted personal data protection regime a national priority

September 22, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea has designated the establishment of a “trusted personal data protection regime” as one of 123 national policy tasks under President Lee Jae Myung, with the Personal Information Protec... (more story)

ByteDance commits to TikTok deal under China-US framework after Xi-Trump call

September 22, 2025 | MLex Staff

Asia, North America

ByteDance has pledged to move forward with a deal to ensure TikTok remains available to US users, easing pressure on the short-video app after years of political wrangling. The statement came Saturday, a day a... (more story)

Hong Kong retailer reports network outage, data breach risk

September 22, 2025

Asia

MLex Summary: Hong Kong-listed Convenience Retail Asia today reported a network disruption that affected internal systems and potentially compromised data, according to a filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

AI 'slop' hits worrisome note for recording industry: Can regulation protect creators?

September 19, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Music platforms like Deezer are being flooded with ersatz AI-generated tunes, social media platforms like Reddit face an inundation by machine-generated text and images. Is there a role for regulation and legi... (more story)

Xockets US antitrust claims against NVIDIA, RPX, Microsoft stayed

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Xockets' US antitrust claims against NVIDIA, RPX Corp. and Microsoft have been stayed pending resolution of NVIDIA's motion to transfer venue to the US Northern District of California, according ... (more story)

Mandamus petitions pile up as challenges to revamped US PTAB continue

September 19, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

Sandisk on Thursday said reliance on patent age to turn away challenges to validity is “lawless on every level.” The company's mandamus petition is the fifth in recent months to take issue with what Sandisk ch... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US Democratic lawmakers want explanation for delay of anti-money laundering rule

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim, and Representative Maxine Waters, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raising concerns about the department's decision to not only postpon... (more story)

Cartel allegations against Mexican businessman supported by evidence, US says

September 19, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Allegations that a Mexican businessman charged in the US with corruption has ties to a Mexican drug cartel are serious and supported by evidence obtained as part of a government investigation, prosecutors said... (more story)

Mexican businessman has ties to cartels, US says in reply to retraction request

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Allegations that Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez, a Mexican businessman charged in the US with corruption, has ties to a Mexican drug cartel are serious and supported by evidence obtained as pa... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Eurozone ministers agree on procedure for digital euro holding limits, issuance

September 19, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

Finance ministers from countries using the euro agreed a procedure to set limits on digital euro holdings on Friday and to give the national governments of the EU a role before the European Central Bank decide... (more story)

Mediobanca turned to EU court in last-ditch effort to stop MPS takeover

September 19, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Jean Comte

Europe

Mediobanca made a last-ditch attempt to thwart its hostile takeover by rival bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena by appealing the European Central Bank approval that enabled the deal, MLex has learned. The legal ch... (more story)

US FinCEN seeks delay of investment adviser anti-money laundering rule to 2028

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has proposed to delay the effective date of a rule requiring investment advisers to implement anti-money laundering compliance pr... (more story)

Trade View More

South Korean president warns financial stability at stake in trade talks with US

September 22, 2025 | Jenny Lee

Asia, North America

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has cautioned that accepting US demands in ongoing trade talks without safeguards could expose Seoul to economic turbulence on the scale of its 1997 financial crisis, under... (more story)

US H-1B visa-fee hike threatens to overshadow India-US trade talks

September 22, 2025 | Freny Patel

Asia

The US imposed a new $100,000 H-1B visa fee just before trade talks with India. The policy, which the Indian government calls a "humanitarian concern," has become a point of tension, underscoring how talent mo... (more story)

Canada revokes two challenges against US lumber duties

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Canada has revoked two separate claims disputing the US antidumping duty orders on Canadian softwood lumber for products traded between June 2017 and December 2019, according to a statement from ... (more story)

State Aid View More

Merger review must scrutinize deals’ impact on sustainability, EU's Ribera says

September 19, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts

Europe

A merger’s impact on sustainability should be a concern for regulators, according to the EU’s competition boss, who made a plea for more transparency around and better analysis of the costs of pollution. Teres... (more story)

German €7.9bn expansion of renewable energy scheme approved by EU

September 18, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany has been granted state aid approval for a €7.9 billion (around $9.3 billion) expansion in the budget of a scheme to support electricity production from renewable energy sources, the Europ... (more story)

Advocates general for EU's first-tier court elected

September 17, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU judges Maja Brkan and José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares have been elected to act as advocates general at the EU's lower-tier General Court. They will provide non-binding legal opinions on cases... (more story)

Energy View More

Governments’ fossil-fuel plans diverge further from climate goals, report finds

September 22, 2025

Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania

MLex Summary: The world's governments plan to produce 120 percent of the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with goals to limit global warming to 1.5°C, according to a report by the Stockh... (more story)

Swiss power and gas company MET Group starts operations in Poland

September 19, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Swiss energy company MET Group announced on Thursday its entry into the Polish market through its new subsidiary, MET Polska. The company will focus on supplying electricity and natural gas to la... (more story)

Estonia opens Europe’s largest rare-earth magnet factory

September 19, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Estonia has opened Europe’s largest rare-earth magnet factory, the European Commission said on Friday. The new facility in Narva, which has been financed through the EU's Just Transition Fund, wi... (more story)

Technology View More

US judge in Amazon ‘dark pattern’ case quashes FTC subpoena to company

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A federal judge granted Amazon’s motion to quash a subpoena by the US Federal Trade Commission that commands Amazon.com Inc. to testify at the upcoming trial over allegations Amazon engaged in ma... (more story)

School districts, social media companies spar over bellwether trial order for US cases

September 19, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

US school districts and the social media platforms they are suing are asking a federal judge to decide the order of six bellwether trials that are slated to take place next summer in multidistrict litigation o... (more story)

US FTC restructuring regional offices on competition matters, Guarnera says

September 19, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

The US Federal Trade Commission is restructuring how competition cases are handled at its regional offices with the aim of creating a more efficient and flexible reporting mechanism, said Daniel Guarnera, dire... (more story)