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Antitrust
September 16, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Chris May
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Trade
September 16, 2025 | Emma Whitford
Asia, North America
Antitrust
September 16, 2025 | Chris May
North America
Antitrust View More
September 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Grab Holdings and its unit MyTaxi.PH have signed a one-year undertaking with the Philippine Competition Commission, extending commitments tied to the ride-hailing company’s incentive schemes. The... (more story)
September 17, 2025 | Saloni Sinha
Oceania
Jobs website Seek will defend a misuse-of-market-power case brought by employment-operating software business Employment Hero in an Australian court in September 2026. In a brief Federal Court of Australia hea... (more story)
September 17, 2025 | James Panichi
Oceania
The Google adtech class-action lawsuit in Australia continues to be dominated by the clash between rival law firms, with a court accepting Melbourne-based Piper Alderman’s appeal of a judge’s decision to sidel... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
September 16, 2025 | Madeline Hughes and Amy Miller
North America
After hearing heartbreaking stories from parents about their children engaging with AI chatbots and harming themselves, US senators told Big Tech companies they need to reform or be subject to subpoenas and regulations.
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: OpenAI, Nvidia and the UK AI engineering company Nscale are jointly establishing Stargate UK, a large-scale AI infrastructure project including an initial 8,000 AI GPUs coming “early next year” w... (more story)
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: US Federal Trade Commissioner Mark R. Meador issued a keynote address before the National Advertising Division on consumer protection and public trust. Meador said that much of the FTC’s consumer... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
September 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: The acquisition of Owens-Corning (India), a key player in the country's glass fibre market, by Triumph Composites and Quartz Fibre has received merger clearance. The Competition Commission of Ind... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Lewis Crofts
Europe
Trade associations representing start-up entrepreneurs have asked the European Commission to clarify M&A rules to ensure investors and founders can exit by selling their companies. They want to see less uncert... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Flavia Fortes
North America
Enforcers and practitioners will struggle to factor trade policy into merger analysis, California antitrust chief Paula Blizzard said today. In addition to traditional antitrust analysis, merger reviews will c... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
September 17, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: South Korea has approved amendments to the enforcement decree of the Personal Information Protection Act, setting new requirements for foreign service providers to appoint local representatives. ... (more story)
September 17, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Teens favor safety-by-design solutions, such as default protections and minor-specific settings over blanket bans or restrictive controls when it comes to online protection, a survey published We... (more story)
September 17, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Meta and its messaging arm WhatsApp are contesting a $25.25 million penalty, arguing that India’s antitrust regulator wrongly deemed WhatsApp’s 2021 privacy policy update “anticompetitive.” The appeal, heard b... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
September 16, 2025 | Nick Robertson
North America
With the 6G standardization process warming up, Qualcomm hopes to leverage its experience and large patent portfolio in the 5G standard to propel it into the next generation of wireless technology. But its tec... (more story)
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery filed a US complaint accusing MiniMax of copyright infringement through its artificial intelligence image and video generating service Hailuo AI. “Mi... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Dutch national Marc van der Woude has been re-elected as president of the EU General Court, while Cypriot Savvas Papasavvas has been re-elected as its vice president, the court said in a statemen... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Ramil Palafox, operator of PGI Global, pleaded guilty in the US to charges of wire fraud and money laundering for operating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. Sentencing is set for Feb. 3, 2026.
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is designating a pair of Iranian financial facilitators and more than a dozen Hong Kong- and United Arab Emirates-based individuals a... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: The Australian government has launched new guidelines to help protect the country against identity fraud. In a statement announcing the new National Identity Proofing Guidelines, Attorney General... (more story)
Financial Services View More
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has produced guidance for market operators on the application of the EU's sustainable finance reporting framework to the defense sector. The document, which was sent to th... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
The EU sustainability disclosures rules don't stand in the way of investment in the defense sector, the European Commission says in a notice sent to member states Monday. The document provides market operators... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The UK's prudential regulator opened a 13-week consultation on Tuesday on raising the threshold of insurance liabilities covered by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme to £600 million ($81... (more story)
Trade View More
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Office of the US Trade Representative announced that it is seeking public comments ahead of the joint review of the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement on July 1, 2026. The USTR will hold a public hea... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Eliana Hubacker
North America
Despite the existence of antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on quartz surface products from China, India and Turkey, dumped imports continue to harm the domestic industry, US producers wrote to the US Int... (more story)
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex summary: US imports increased by 0.3 percent in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said in a new report, while American exports also increased by the exact same rate. The import prices are up from a 0... (more story)
State Aid View More
September 16, 2025 | Jean Comte
Europe
The EU should make state aid less burdensome, the Czech Republic said in a document circulated to member states last week and seen by MLex. The note also pleads for making rules more flexible and to have more ... (more story)
September 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has started a full investigation into whether Slovenia’s transfer of assets from the municipality of Ljubljana to pharmacy chain Lekarna Ljubljana complied with EU state a... (more story)
September 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Austria has won its legal challenge to Hungary's investment aid for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at the Paks II power station. In a judgment delivered on Thursday morning, the EU'... (more story)
Energy View More
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU should improve the functioning of the gas market and loosen the link between gas and electricity prices to bring down costs and boost Europe’s competitiveness, former Italian Prime Ministe... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU has opened accession negotiations with Albania on the so-caller cluster 4, covering the green agenda and sustainable connectivity, which includes transport, energy, environment, and climat... (more story)
September 16, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Google will invest £5 billion ($6.8 billion) in the UK over the next two years on research and development, capital expenditure and engineering, the company said on Tuesday. Investment will focus... (more story)
Technology View More
September 17, 2025 | Khushita Vasant
North America
Google told a US federal judge that it internally studied a possible business divestiture, but it wasn't as far-reaching as the forced sale of its adtech products that the US Department of Justice is seeking i... (more story)
September 16, 2025 | Chris May
North America
A “remarkable period” where multiple US monopolization cases against Big Tech are coming to fruition is the result of years of heavy investment by public agencies, a senior tech-sector enforcer at the US Feder... (more story)
September 16, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Just as the US Supreme Court ruled that the president has the constitutional authority to fire board members of the National Labor Relations Board and other executive branch entities, President T... (more story)