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Data Privacy and Security
April 27, 2026 | Madeline Hughes
North America
Artificial Intelligence
April 27, 2026 | Emma Whitford
North America
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology
April 27, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Antitrust View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: There is no clear demand from European consumers and businesses for Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn and other operators of social networks to be interoperable, a European Commission study on the EU's digi... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An interoperability provision of the EU’s key digital gatekeepers law should be extended to social media, proposes a new report published on Tuesday by think tank Future of Tech Institute. The mo... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Microsoft told UK appeal judges on Tuesday that ValueLicensing would have no competition-law claim against the tech giant if its reselling of software licenses broke copyright rules. At the UK Court of Appeal,... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
April 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: US Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz is co-sponsor of the newly introduced Children’s Health, Advancement, Trust, Boundaries, and Oversight in Technology, or CHATBOT, Act, which would require artifi... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: UK AI developers and chipmakers are the target of a new government plan that aims to improve Britain’s capability in chips and semiconductor technologies, the technology minister told an audience... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Legal experts warn of a "legislative paradox" in India’s artificial intelligence regulation push, saying the proposed framework could favor large technology companies while leaving key issues such as labor dis... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
April 28, 2026 | Jean Comte and Nicholas Hirst
Europe
The European Commission used an announcement Tuesday clearing a JV between Airbus and Air France Tuesday to encourage dealmakers to submit efficiency claims early when notifying mergers or acquisitions. The EU... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
Deutsche Börse remains “firmly on track” to receive approval to complete its €5.3 billion Allfunds acquisition in the first half of next year, its chief executive said. “We have initiated the customary pre-not... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has approved the creation by Air France and Airbus of a joint venture combining the two companies’ offerings of component maintenance services to airlines using the A350 a... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
April 28, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
Social media platforms look more likely to face rapid UK action in the name of children's safety after the government on Monday committed to introducing “some form” of age or feature restrictions for under-16s... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Matthew Newman
Europe
European Parliament lawmakers are due to decide on plans to strengthen the bloc’s cybersecurity framework early next year, with the legislature's industry committee voting in January followed by a plenary vote... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japanese ruling and opposition lawmakers agreed Monday to work toward drafting rules to curb the spread of fake news and defamatory content related to elections. Proposed legal revisions may be submitted durin... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
April 28, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
The US Patent and Trademark Office’s position that after six years without a substantive challenge to validity a patent owner rightfully forms a “settled expectation” that their asset is inter partes review-pr... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | MLex Staff
Asia, North America
A Section 337 probe and related US patent-infringement lawsuits initiated by Skyworks Solutions against China’s chipmaker Grand Kangxi Communication Technologies (Shanghai) have been withdrawn, ending a nearly... (more story)
April 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Electronic Frontier Foundation told a US federal judge that arguments to apply copyright liability to artificial intelligence models that are trained on copyrighted materials espouse a new th... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The partner of a man murdered in London has agreed to pay a "six-figure sum" to UK prosecutors after claims that she bought two houses with the proceeds of a suspected fraud. The Crown Prosecutio... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Asia, Europe
Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation’s former top lawyer denied that a near £3 million payment made to UK lawyers for nine months of work was “excessive,” saying the Kazakh miner faced an “existential threat... (more story)
April 28, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Federal Policing – Central Region has laid charges against the former chief executive of RPX Gold Inc. formerly known as Red Pine Exploration Inc., wi... (more story)
Financial Services View More
April 27, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Department of the Treasury announced that is has initiated a review of certified community development financial institutions to identify potential violations of applicable law or CDFI requirements.
April 27, 2026 | Sofia Gerace
Europe
The UK’s financial regulator has been given some relief in its push to roll out a sweeping redress plan for the car-finance mis-selling scandal, after the industry’s main trade body confirmed it would not moun... (more story)
April 27, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU finance ministers have been asked to consider the scope of direct supervision and the governance framework in a policy initiative to improve the EU's capital markets called the Market Integrat... (more story)
Trade View More
April 28, 2026 | Zack Budryk
North America
The US Court of International Trade partially sided with the US Commerce Department Monday on the department’s review of its antidumping order for Chinese chlorinated isocyanurates.
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Danish senior EU official Ditte Juul Jørgensen will become the European Commission’s new director-general for trade, the bloc’s executive announced on Tuesday. Jørgensen has served as the commiss... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Africa, North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has issued an antidumping duty order on steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria.
State Aid View More
April 28, 2026 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
Zenobē Energy told a UK judge on Tuesday that it is right that the Competition Appeal Tribunal examine and rule on a “subsidy scheme” designed to promote development of energy storage projects. Zenobē, which o... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Companies in Estonia relying heavily on electricity and exposed to international trade will be eligible for a levy rate reduction of between 75 and 85 percent under a €36 million plan that has wo... (more story)
April 23, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A Croatian measure worth €37 million, for the construction of two business facilities offering workspaces for the gaming sector in the town of Novska, has won state aid approval, the European Com... (more story)
Energy View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Céline Gauer has been appointed director-general of the EU’s energy department, the European Commission said Tuesday. She will replace Ditte Juul Jørgensen in the role from June 1. The French off... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: A single methodology for calculating transport-related greenhouse gas emissions was agreed by EU lawmakers on Tuesday. While not mandatory, companies that disclose emissions will have to follow t... (more story)
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The European Commission has opened a four-week consultation on further possible exemptions from EU rules on the removal and replacement of batteries. While the bloc's Batteries Regulation require... (more story)
Technology View More
April 28, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Scrutinizing the cloud and AI sectors will be a priority for the European Commission as it applies the Digital Markets Act going forward, the EU executive said on Tuesday when publishing its firs... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Online scams should be a central focus of EU probes under the Digital Services Act, Susanne Lackner, the head of Austria’s Digital Services Coordinator, told MLex in an interview. She also said that while the ... (more story)
April 28, 2026 | Sara Brandstätter
Europe
OpenAI’s latest user figures for its ChatGPT Search feature are likely to renew questions over whether the service could fall under the EU’s strictest digital platform rules. The company said Monday night that... (more story)