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Specialist news and analysis on legal risk and regulation

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

EU govts split over AI, data transfer rules in Digital Omnibus comments

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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

Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Trade

September 23, 2026 | Bradley Dress

Asia, North America

US Senate Democrats push for Trump to hold line on AI chip controls
pair of boats made of euro notes to symbolize EU banking mergers

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 23, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

US FTC has used phased second requests since leadership change, director says
Roblox, Discord seek arbitration of US child-exploitation claims
US Senate Democrats push for Trump to hold line on AI chip controls
US FTC has used phased second requests since leadership change, director says

Antitrust View More

Google, Apple, Samsung win dismissal of VoIP-Pal's US antitrust claims

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Google, Apple and Samsung were granted a motion to dismiss VoIP-Pal’s US antitrust claims over Wi-Fi calling. District Judge Randolph D. Moss dismissed the claims based on claim-splitting, findin... (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.

Daimler, Volvo, Iveco, other truckmakers settle UK cartel litigation

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Truckmakers Including Daimler, Volvo, Iveco, DAF, and Renault have reached settlement agreements in the UK with companies including construction group Gibson Bros following damages lawsuits over ... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

AI on agenda for US-China summit but not new guardrails, Trump says

September 24, 2026 | Emma Whitford

Asia, North America

Artificial intelligence will be a “big topic of discussion” in meetings with Chinese President Xi Jingping, US President Donald Trump said Thursday morning on social media, even as he dismissed the possibility... (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)

UK govt plans for information defense agency raise Ofcom overlap questions

September 24, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Plans for a UK agency to counter hostile state information attacks have raised questions about how it would work alongside online safety regulator Ofcom. Labour lawmaker Chi Onwurah welcomed the proposal but s... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

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)

Senator Booker urges US judge to independently review Paramount settlement

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Senator Cory Booker penned a letter to Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin, urging the court to independently review the consent decree that settles the case brought by US states against Paramount's... (more story)

US judge reviewing Paramount-Warner settlement allows amicus briefs

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin granted motions to allow amicus briefs regarding Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery's settlement with US states, ordering briefs to be filed by Friday and to not e... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Brazil delays minors’ online crime-reporting center, targets November launch

September 24, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

The National Center for Child and Adolescent Protection will debut in November following delays linked to budget and staffing constraints. Platforms operating in Brazil will be required to report suspected vio... (more story)

TikTok partners with BBB National Programs on advertising initiative

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: BBB National Programs announced TikTok is partnering with the self-regulatory agency to strengthen its trust for advertising on its platform by creating a direct channel for the National Advertis... (more story)

US Sen. Markey proposes creating independent body to investigate AI cyberattacks

September 24, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Senator Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, has introduced a bill that would establish an independent body to investigate AI-assisted cyber hacks. The proposed bill comes after OpenAI's agent... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

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)

This week at the UPC: Sept. 18-24

September 24, 2026 | Giorgi Dvalishvili and Inbar Preiss

Europe

The Unified Patent Court this week granted industrial tech giant Honeywell an injunction, while Samsung defeated Maxell after the patent at issue was revoked. Appeal judges also clarified costs during revocati... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

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)

Freight-moving company president found guilty in US of illicit exports to Russia

September 23, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The president of a freight-forwarding company was found guilty by a federal jury in Boston of unlawfully exporting a mass spectrometer from the US into Russia without a license. Kirill Gordei was... (more story)

Financial Services View More

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)

US SEC’s Peirce says crypto authorities should back off information gathering

September 23, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US Securities and Exchange Commission member Hester Peirce said cryptocurrency regulators should retreat on citizen information-gathering because it is counter-productive. “The excessive regulatory focus on da... (more story)

Trade View More

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)

US trade court rules against importer on exclusion request for heat sinks

September 24, 2026 | Bradley Dress

Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America

The US Court of International Trade has rejected an importer’s push to determine that its heat sinks are excluded from an antidumping and antisubsidy order on aluminum extrusions from China. 

US CIT upholds use of surrogate data in Chinese equipment dumping order review

September 24, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US Court of International Trade upheld the Commerce Department's use of surrogate data within the first administrative review of a dumping order on Chinese mobile access equipment to determin... (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

UK should coordinate AI guidance, prioritize sandboxes, industry group says

September 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The UK government should prioritize the Regulating for Growth Bill, especially provisions allowing more freedom for regulatory sandboxes, industry group techUK said in a report Thursday. Business... (more story)

Philippines seeks compliance timelines from Reddit, Discord after 24-hour demand

September 24, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez

Asia

Philippine authorities are pressing Discord and Reddit to establish a local presence and implement online child-safety measures, following a 24-hour ultimatum and the temporary blocking of Discord. Cybersecuri... (more story)

US FTC is better agency than DOJ's Antitrust Division, Ferguson says

September 24, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson has pushed back against the notion that a consensus-driven model of decision-making produces better outcomes and said that the FTC is a better agency than t... (more story)