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EU’s Ribera calls for multilateral approach to AI risks

EU, Canada should deepen cooperation on critical minerals, AI, Carney says

Trump seeks leverage with US import prohibitions as questions mount

Meta says UK regulator’s information demands, categorization criteria go too far

EU's Von der Leyen tiptoes around China despite ‘tipping point’ trade warning

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Trade

September 16, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

US House passes Russia sanctions bill with new tariff powers for president
Tech Founder and Investor David Sacks speaks about of the Crypto and Digital Assets Summit at Stake Out/White House in Washington DC, USA.

Artificial Intelligence

September 16, 2026 | Emma Whitford

North America

AI companies have responsibility to maintain safety, Trump tech advisor says

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 16, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger

North America

Warner Bros. likely to split into two firms if Paramount deal fails, experts say
US House passes Russia sanctions bill with new tariff powers for president
AI companies have responsibility to maintain safety, Trump tech advisor says
Warner Bros. likely to split into two firms if Paramount deal fails, experts say

Antitrust View More

London Metal Exchange targeted by UK antitrust claim over nickel trading

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The London Metal Exchange has been targeted by a UK claim from investment funds over alleged malpractice in nickel trading, according to a summary of the suit published by the Competition Appeal ... (more story)

Brazil’s CADE to vote on Amazon, Anthropic gun-jumping probe, others

September 17, 2026

Latin America

MLex Summary: Brazil’s Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) is scheduled to rule on a gun-jumping probe into Amazon and Anthropic on Wednesday, Sept. 23. The competition watchdog’s Tribunal has a... (more story)

Lesy ČR gets Czech fine for wood chips export ban

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: State-owned forest business Lesy ČR has been fined more than 17 million Koruna (around $818,236) for a three-year export ban agreement with one of its customers, in breach of national and EU comp... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, other chatbots set for tougher EU child-safety rules

September 17, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Chatbots such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini could face new safety-by-design requirements under the proposed EU Kids Act, provided they qualify as general conversational chatbots a... (more story)

OpenAI reports six cases of 'unexpected' model behavior under new disclosure framework

September 17, 2026

Europe, North America

MLex Summary: OpenAI has created a framework to investigate as it publicly disclosed six cases of "unexpected or concerning" model behavior observed during training or evaluation. The cases include models addi... (more story)

Frontier AI rules could harm UK firms, industry group for startups says

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK should avoid AI rules that apply only to the most powerful frontier models, because they could create regulatory barriers that protect established US and Chinese developers and harm Britis... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

EU's MMG deal objections put spotlight on motives of China's SASAC

September 17, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst

Europe

EU merger investigators this week lodged their formal objections to miner MMG's plan to buy a nickel business from Anglo American — and in so doing they appear for the first time to have trained their sights d... (more story)

MMG says nickel deal would ensure supply for EU customers

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: MMG said an EU veto blocking its acquisition of Anglo American's nickel business in Brazil would "limit investment and jobs in Brazil and remove supply from the market." In a statement, the miner... (more story)

Fertitta, Caesars received second request from US FTC on Sept. 14

September 17, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Fertitta Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment each received a second request from the US Federal Trade Commission on Sept. 14, according to a Caesars securities filing. The waiting period for ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

New EU cyber act amendments would require certification, rewrite supplier rules

September 17, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Europe

Mandatory cybersecurity certification for essential entities, shorter deadlines to remove high-risk technology suppliers and a new process for identifying those suppliers are among amendments proposed by Marké... (more story)

Italian banks under security review in wake of Revolut data breach

September 17, 2026 | Matthew Newman

Europe

Italian banks are under scrutiny by the country’s privacy watchdog over potential security flaws in their access systems after Revolut revealed last week that an impersonation scam had affected almost 700 cust... (more story)

Influencer code, ban on addictive social media backed by EU lawmakers

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Digital platforms should to take greater responsibility for protecting young people from harmful or manipulative content and to mitigate the impact of persuasive design with risk-based safeguards... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

This week at the UPC: Sept. 11-17

September 17, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Giorgi Dvalishvili

Europe

Netflix faces an injunction across 18 countries, while other key Unified Patent Court rulings this week addressed DNA-sequencing technology, prior-use rights, late evidence, litigation costs and patent settlem... (more story)

China's Jingdiao ruling tests boundaries of trade-secret protection

September 17, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top court has sent a strong deterrent message through its 380-million-yuan ($56 million) Jingdiao trade-secret ruling. But can plainly wrongful conduct justify treating tens of thousands of drawings co... (more story)

Tokyo court rejects subtitle claim in latest 'Dawn of the Dead' case

September 17, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

A Tokyo court dismissed a subtitle translator's copyright and moral rights claim over broadcasts of the cult classic “Dawn of the Dead,” finding that broadcasters did not have to independently check subtitle r... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Raiffeisen Bank calls Russian sanctions claims 'misleading'

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Raiffeisen Bank International has described a report claiming it is involved in sanctions evasion as "misleading." The Austrian bank was accused by short-seller Grizzly Research of being a "key c... (more story)

Law-abiding UK law firms need not fear AML supervision, FCA enforcement head says

September 17, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

UK law firms shouldn’t expect to be “caught out” by the country’s financial regulator when it takes over anti-money laundering supervision in two years, its enforcement head said Thursday. But the regulator wi... (more story)

Illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading targeted by UK financial regulator

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading has been targeted by the Financial Conduct Authority across multiple locations in the UK capital, it said Thursday. The financial regulator said it had carried... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Euro Exchange Securities under UK money-laundering probe

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Euro Exchange Securities is under investigation by the UK's financial regulator over suspected money-laundering offenses. The Financial Conduct Authority said that it was looking at whether the e... (more story)

EU banks should test crisis communications periodically, resolution body says

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: EU banks are expected to maintain a sufficiently detailed crisis communications plan and test it periodically to ensure its effectiveness, the EU's bank-resolution authority said in clarified gui... (more story)

US SEC plans to void 1942 rule for companies’ inclusion of shareholder proposals

September 16, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to abolish a 1942 rule that addresses when companies must include shareholder proposals in their proxy materials, intending to leave those determinations to s... (more story)

Trade View More

EU, China target first concrete trade outcomes at October talks

September 17, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Asia, Europe

The EU and China are aiming for concrete progress on trade imbalances, market access for European companies and rare-earth export controls when their trade chiefs meet in Beijing on Oct. 8-9, the European Comm... (more story)

EU carmakers urge delay to tighter EV battery rules for UK trade

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: European carmakers are urging the EU and UK to delay tighter rules of origin for electric-vehicle batteries due in 2027, warning that 82 percent of EU EV exports to the UK could otherwise face ta... (more story)

2025 saw rise in court actions challenging EU trade measures, report says

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Court actions challenging trade defense measures increased last year, with 18 new cases lodged, up from ten in 2024, the trade regulator said in its latest report on the bloc's trade defense acti... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU countries to start aid pre-notifications in first major AI project this month

September 16, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Eleven out of nineteen EU countries involved in the first Important Project of Common European Interest in the field of artificial intelligence and planning to grant state aid, will start pre-not... (more story)

Vindenergi challenging Danish aid for wind farms project at EU court

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Energy company Dansk Vindenergi is challenging the Danish government's €5 billion plan to back the construction and operation of the Hesselø and North Sea I Mid offshore wind farms at an EU court... (more story)

Czech TV operators ask EU judges to re-allow cancelled state aid

September 14, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: České Radiokomunikace, Digital Broadcasting and Česká televize, three Czech digital terrestrial television infrastructure operators, have asked the EU General Court to overturn a decision by the ... (more story)

Energy View More

Data centers, some industry would lose EU grid priority in legislative plan

September 17, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Data centers and energy-intensive industries in the EU would lose priority access to electricity in times of scarcity under a proposal seen by MLex that EU countries are set to discuss on Sept. 22. The EU memb... (more story)

EU shipping carbon-market derogations should run until 2040, lead EU lawmaker says

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Exemptions from the EU's carbon market for shipping should be extended until 2040, European Parliament lawmaker Peter Liese said in a draft report. Liese's proposal differs from that of the Europ... (more story)

Data centers downgraded, EU govts get more say under draft electricity compromise

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Data centers and energy-intensive industries would no longer be explicitly prioritized for access to scarce electricity grid capacity under a compromise text prepared for EU countries. The draft,... (more story)

Technology View More

Meta found liable for fake advertising on Instagram, Facebook by German court

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Meta Platforms has been found liable for fake ads on its Instagram and Facebook platforms and ordered to compensate the founder of German personal finance platform Finanzfluss for damages from 26... (more story)

UK court considers Apple, Liberty challenges to Home Office encryption orders

September 17, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: A UK court is considering Thursday how to manage two legal challenges to the government’s reported attempts to access encrypted data from Apple users. Civil liberties organization Liberty, which ... (more story)

Broad range of tech companies to face EU safety-by-design rules

September 17, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter

Europe

A broad range of technology companies, from social-media and video-sharing platforms to online games, app stores and AI chatbot providers, would fall within the EU’s new approach to protecting children online,... (more story)