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Antitrust, Artificial Intelligence
March 24, 2026 | Clayton Vickers
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
March 24, 2026 | Xu Yuan
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security
March 24, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Madeline Hughes
North America
Antitrust View More
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Amazon's application to strike out a UK mass lawsuit over its online pricing behaviors has failed, the Competition Appeal Tribunal has said. The claims are brought by the Association of Consumer ... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
EU antitrust investigators are planning to escalate an ongoing investigation into the astroturf sector, potentially issuing a chargesheet later this year. The probe is understood to explore potential collusion... (more story)
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Scandinavian Airlines System should receive about €14.44 million in compensation from the European Commission for unpaid interest on an annulled air cargo cartel fine, the bloc’s lower-tier Gener... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
March 25, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
Enforcement of the EU's keystone AI law is proving a struggle for the bloc's member states as they try to coordinate across fragmented national regulatory systems: Differing structures, capacity constraints an... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Jenny Lee
Asia
South Korea’s science minister said the country’s homegrown “sovereign AI” models have already cleared key global benchmarks and could break into the global top 12 after the next evaluation, as the government ... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Amy Miller
North America
The US government’s blacklisting of Anthropic appears to be both an attempt to “cripple” the artificial intelligence company for publicizing its contract dispute with the Pentagon, and a violation of the First... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The French competition authorities have approved GL events' acquisition of the entertainment venue and exhibition center management activities formerly owned by the Fimalac group. The clearance i... (more story)
March 25, 2026
Oceania
MLex Summary: Sweden-based Beijer Ref’s proposed acquisition of 100 percent of Refrigeration Specialties has raised antitrust concerns, New Zealand’s competition regulator said. In an announcement on Wednesday... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Chris May
North America
US antitrust enforcers moved too slow to address anticompetitive conduct during the last major evolutionary phase of the internet and should remain mindful of exclusionary conduct that curbs incentives to inno... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms face different age assurance requirements in the UK depending on their service type, the UK privacy and media regulators said in a joint statement, detailing how online safety an... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia
Shanghai police have detailed administrative penalties against French luxury house Dior over a data breach last year, with relatively mild sanctions and the omission of penalties for some violations raising qu... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Wooyoung Lee
Asia
South Korea’s top court has narrowly defined who qualifies as a data controller subject to criminal liability under the country’s privacy law, ruling that employees of public institutions fall outside its dual... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
March 25, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi
Asia
A Tokyo court ruled that a fish vaccine patent held by Kyoritsu Seiyaku, a veterinary pharmaceutical company, extended to a product by its rival Biosiense using a bacterium later reclassified under a different... (more story)
March 25, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Torrent Pharmaceuticals has been cleared to launch its semaglutide product after an Indian court found no infringement of Novo Nordisk’s formulation patent. The Delhi High Court stressed claim scope limits, pe... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
A whitepaper made public on Monday posits that the Access Advance (AA) Video Distribution Pool's proposed royalty rates qualify as fair, reasonable and nondiscriminatory. The same day, Dolby Laboratories — a p... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
March 24, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: A Uruguayan man pleaded guilty to agreeing to use an unlicensed money services business to circumvent US sanctions on Venezuela by transferring nearly $100,000 from the Dominican Republic into a ... (more story)
March 24, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: A motion to dismiss for vindictive and selective prosecution filed by Smartmatic's UK parent company "relies on a fundamentally flawed premise" and on assumptions lacking factual basis, prosecuto... (more story)
March 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Property worth more than £81 million, including apartments in central and south London, have been frozen after the granting of applications by the UK's Crown Prosecution Service for an unexplaine... (more story)
Financial Services View More
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK financial advice firms may be able to provide simpler advice to consumers after a new proposal from the Financial Conduct Authority. The regulator said "simplified advice is not new," but adde... (more story)
March 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission is expected by mid-June to put forward a proposal to offset bank capital requirement increases due to the implementation of internationally agreed Basel III standards. Pro... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The European Commission will propose bank-specific multipliers to neutralize capital increases under Basel III market risk rules from January 2027, draft texts show. The multipliers will be individually calibr... (more story)
Trade View More
March 25, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet
Europe
An update to EU rules designed to make the bloc less dependent on countries like China for critical raw materials should recognize materials recovered from manufacturing waste to boost recycling in the bloc, a... (more story)
March 25, 2026
Asia, North America
MLex Summary: China’s Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday that it has concluded a trade and investment barrier investigation into Mexican measures affecting China, finding that tariff increases on imports from... (more story)
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU duties to tackle dumping of imports of threaded tube or pipe cast fittings from China have been extended to cover imports of unthreaded tube or pipe cast fittings of malleable cast iron. Last ... (more story)
State Aid View More
March 25, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Spain has won clearance for a plan worth €50 million to support projects to decarbonize industrial process heat via innovative technologies. The aid will take the form of a fixed premium per ton ... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Jean Comte
Europe
Nominations for 13 new EU Court of Justice judges and six advocates general are needed as soon as possible, EU capitals have been urged by the court's president. The terms of the incumbents end on Oct. 6 next ... (more story)
March 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A national court or tribunal of last instance must always give reasons when refusing to refer questions on the application of EU law to the bloc's top court, the Court of Justice said in a ruling... (more story)
Energy View More
March 24, 2026
North America
MLex summary: The US Federal Communications Commission updated its covered list to include all imports of consumer-grade routers, prohibiting them from importation. The decision comes after an interagency body... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
New time-limited powers to combat price gouging may be granted to the UK antitrust regulator following concerns that some companies could exploit the conflict in the Middle East to boost their profits. The Com... (more story)
March 23, 2026 | Louis de Briant
Europe
European gas stockpiling should start early to prepare for next winter, relying on flexibilities introduced in last year’s revised gas storage regulation, according to a letter from EU Energy Commissioner Dan ... (more story)
Technology View More
March 24, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
Fans who bought tickets to certain concerts at major venues owned or controlled by Live Nation overpaid between $1.56 and $1.72 per ticket, a damages expert testified Tuesday at a high-profile US antitrust trial.
March 24, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK government has set out how it will test social media bans through a pilot linked to its children's online safety consultation, which has already drawn nearly 30,000 responses. Families wil... (more story)
March 24, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe, North America
Democratic US Congressman Jamie Raskin pushed back against criticism that the EU’s Digital Services Act restricts free speech, telling European lawmakers that such claims are politically motivated, based on mi... (more story)