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Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

US states 'implore' Congress to take immediate action on AI safety

Amodei, Altman call for global coordination on advanced AI risks

Nvidia may seek EU review of Hugging Face deal amid filing uncertainty

US rejects any 'globalist' effort to control AI, Trump tells UN

Frontier AI capabilities for US, China loom over Trump-Xi Washington summit

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Financial Crime, Financial Services

September 24, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US stablecoin issuers to face fully backed liquid reserve requirements, Fed says
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Artificial Intelligence

September 24, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Asia, North America

AI on agenda for US-China summit but not guardrails, Trump says
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Data Privacy and Security, Technology

September 23, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

Roblox, Discord seek arbitration of US child-exploitation claims
US stablecoin issuers to face fully backed liquid reserve requirements, Fed says
AI on agenda for US-China summit but not guardrails, Trump says
Roblox, Discord seek arbitration of US child-exploitation claims

Antitrust View More

Value Drug plausibly alleges Alkermes duped USPTO, judge says in antitrust suit

September 24, 2026 | Chris May

North America

Value Drug has plausibly alleged global biopharmaceutical company Alkermes violated federal antitrust law by protecting its monopoly on the drug naltrexone through material misrepresentations to the US Patent ... (more story)

US DOJ's Glad warns firms to bring antitrust compliance into AI tools

September 24, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Software cannot launder collusion, and companies using AI to make pricing decisions must know what data is being fed into the software they use, train the people running it and bring antitrust compliance into ... (more story)

Jushi Holdings, Sammartino push for judgment in Mass. cannabis monopolization case

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Sammartino Investments and Jushi Holdings filed a reply in support of their motion for judgment against MJ's Market's US antitrust case accusing them of conspiring to keep it from competing in th... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

ByteDance questioned by judge in bid to dismiss US copyright lawsuit

September 24, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

A US federal judge sounded doubtful of TikTok owner ByteDance’s arguments that a copyright lawsuit over the company's allegedly illegal use of YouTube videos for AI training should be dismissed because the con... (more story)

US Senators Warner, Schatz introduce AI third-party testing and safety bill

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Democratic US Senators Mark R. Warner of Virginia, Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Brian Schatz of Hawaii have introduced the Artificial Intelligence Risk Manage... (more story)

US state AGs call on Congress to regulate AI development

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: New York Attorney General Letitia James led a bipartisan coalition of 25 other attorneys general in calling on Congress to immediately regulate the artificial intelligence industry. The coalition... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

California defends proposed US consent decree over Paramount-Warner merger

September 24, 2026 | Alex Wilts

North America

California's antitrust chief defended a proposed consent decree reached by the state and 11 others that would allow Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery to proceed.

FTC’s China-linked remedy-buyer stance could test line between antitrust, CFIUS

September 24, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

US Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson’s warning that he may reject a divestiture to a Chinese Communist Party-controlled buyer puts a new practical constraint on merger remedies: a buyer that appea... (more story)

Union Pacific merger faces broad, untested enhanced-competition standard

September 24, 2026 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

As Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway seek approval for their proposed $85 billion merger, the companies are tasked with demonstrating to the US Surface Transportation Board that their deal is... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Japan panel proposes remote police access to suspects' smartphone communications

September 25, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: An expert panel under Japan’s National Police Agency proposed Thursday allowing police to remotely access communications on suspects’ devices, including messages exchanged through encrypted apps,... (more story)

Australian privacy regulator investigates 2023 Latitude data breach

September 25, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: Australia's privacy watchdog on Friday said it is continuing its investigation into Latitude’s 2023 data breach, focusing on whether the company adequately protected personal information and dest... (more story)

UK children prefer safety-by-design to Australia-style social media ban, poll shows

September 25, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The majority of UK children who took part in a poll about social media would oppose an Australia-style ban, according to research published on Friday. Instead, they want the government to incenti... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Rare USITC fast-track proceeding tests GG Technologies’ US investment

September 24, 2026 | Steve Scherer

North America

GG Technologies’ NameDrop patent case against Apple is well suited to the US International Trade Commission’s rarely used 100-day procedure, four lawyers told MLex, because it presents a narrow question about ... (more story)

Collision appeal raises stakes for future of patent injunctions

September 24, 2026 | Nick Robertson

North America

Opponents of restoring a presumption in favor of patent injunctions warned Wednesday that Collision Communications’ appeal against Samsung could reopen debate over the standard set by the US Supreme Court in e... (more story)

IP litigants can’t recover EUIPO legal costs through national courts, adviser says

September 24, 2026 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

IP litigants cannot use national court proceedings to recover legal costs beyond those available under EU Intellectual Property Office rules, an adviser to the EU’s top court said, while leaving broader questi... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US senators seek answers on DOJ move to dismiss Adani charges

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal sent another letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche following new revelations that came to light in the criminal case against Indian billionai... (more story)

Credit unions fined by Canada FINTRAC for compliance failures

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada imposed administrative penalties on four credit unions, including Caisse populaire acadienne ltée, which also operates as UNI Fina... (more story)

Liquidated Puerto Rican bank to change plea over suspicious activity violations

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Blue Ocean International Bank, a Puerto Rican lender in liquidation, will change its plea to charges of violating the Bank Secrecy Act by willfully failing to file reports on suspicious activity ... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Polymarket accused by New York of running illegal gambling operation

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: New York Attorney General Letitia James and Governor Kathy Hochul announced a lawsuit accusing Polymarket of running an illegal gambling operation in New York through its prediction market platfo... (more story)

Gas use to fall by nearly 7 billion cubic meters in Germany by 2030, report says

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany plans to cut natural gas consumption by nearly 7 billion cubic meters and gasoline use by about 4 billion liters by 2030. The reductions would result from measures under its 2026 Climate ... (more story)

AI, tokenization focus of new initiative by European markets watchdog

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: AI and tokenization will be the initial focus of a new supervisory initiative by Europe's financial markets watchdog, the European Securities and Markets Authority, or ESMA. In a statement, it sa... (more story)

Trade View More

US trade court sides with Commerce on review of Chinese wood moulding orders

September 24, 2026 | Zack Budryk

North America

The US Court of International Trade sided with the US Commerce Department in a ruling Wednesday, upholding the final results of its redetermination in an administrative review of antidumping orders on Chinese ... (more story)

US congressional Democrats warn of new Trump tariff authorities in sanctions bill

September 24, 2026 | Zack Budryk

North America

Democrats in the US Congress sounded the alarm after the passage of legislation expanding President Donald Trump’s authorities to sanction Russia, arguing it contains expanded tariff authorities that could con... (more story)

US Commerce correct to use surrogate data in review of dumping order, US CIT finds

September 24, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker

Asia, North America

The US Court of International Trade upheld the Commerce Department’s decision to use data from Turkey and Bulgaria as primary and secondary surrogate countries, respectively, in an administrative review of a d... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU foreign subsidies rules to get technical amendments in Q1 2027, document shows

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU's framework to probe and counter market distortions caused by foreign subsidies is due to be amended by the European Commission in the first quarter of 2027, the readout of a meeting with ... (more story)

Acciaierie d’Italia restructuring doesn’t change state aid status, court says

September 24, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe

Steelmaker Acciaierie d'Italia's extraordinary administration — following a corporate restructuring — doesn't shield it from being classified as an "undertaking in difficulty" under EU state aid rules, the EU'... (more story)

Acciaierie d’Italia can be excluded from national energy aid, EU court says

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Steelmaker Acciaierie d'Italia can be excluded from Italy's support schemes for electricity- and gas-intensive companies, the EU's highest court ruled on Thursday. This is because companies under... (more story)

Energy View More

Second EU €1bn auction to decarbonize industrial heat to include nuclear projects

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU's second auction of €1 billion in subsidies for projects to decarbonize industrial process heat for manufacturing due in early December will include nuclear technologies such as small modu... (more story)

AI boom complicates data-center power planning in Indonesia, Thailand

September 24, 2026 | Roffie Kurniawan

Asia

AI-driven data-center growth is making electricity demand harder to predict in Indonesia and Thailand as proposed facilities become vastly more power-intensive while uncertainty remains over which projects wil... (more story)

Hydrogen companies urge EU to retain binding renewable targets after 2030

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Binding EU targets for renewable hydrogen in transport and industry should be maintained beyond 2030 to preserve investment certainty, 170 energy companies have said in a letter to the European C... (more story)

Technology View More

US DOJ looks to intervene in X Corp. challenge to European Commission decision

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice filed an application to intervene in X Corp. and Elon Musk's case to annul a decision by the European Commission that found them liable for violations of the EU's Dig... (more story)

CCIA opposes rehearing over Texas' SCOPE Act

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The Computer & Communications Industry Association opposed Texas' petition for rehearing in a challenge to the state's Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act, arguing that Sect... (more story)

Candeub nomination for DOJ antitrust job advanced by US Senate Judiciary panel

September 24, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

The US Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-10 along party lines Thursday to advance the nomination of Adam Candeub to take over as assistant attorney general at the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.