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Trade

May 01, 2026 | Bradley Dress and Zack Budryk

North America

USTR's forced-labor probe mostly China focused, raising questions in broad probe

Artificial Intelligence

May 01, 2026 | Emma Whitford

North America

US DoD enters agreements with frontier AI companies amid Anthropic fight
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Financial Services

May 01, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

Europe

Challenges to UK car finance redress plan risk ‘fresh uncertainty,’ FCA warns

Antitrust View More

Google, Apple, Samsung say VoIP-Pal abandons, rewrites US antitrust claims

May 01, 2026 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Google, Apple and Samsung told a US judge that VoIP-Pal has half-abandoned and half-rewritten its US antitrust claims over WiFi calling, doing nothing to make its claims cognizable in the face of the defendant... (more story)

US FTC urges Tennessee Supreme Court oppose ABA law school accreditation monopoly

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission filed a letter urging the Tennessee Supreme Court to "open law school accreditation to competition by reducing its reliance on the American Bar Association in dete... (more story)

Mastercard, Visa see mass claim's leader denied appeal bid over ‘opt in’ ruling

May 01, 2026 | Simon Zekaria

Europe

A ruling which ruled out some claimants seeking to "opt in" to UK mass card-fee lawsuits against Mastercard and Visa can’t be appealed by the class leader, the UK’s competition court said Friday. The Competiti... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Musk fixer's testimony about $97bn bid for OpenAI will be struck, US judge says

May 01, 2026 | Mike Swift

North America

As the trial between Elon Musk, OpenAI and Microsoft ends its first week, the US federal judge overseeing the trial said she will strike testimony earlier this week from Musk's financial fixer about the billio... (more story)

US banking regulators mulling how to supervise Anthropic’s Mythos AI, Bowman says

May 01, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

US banking regulators are considering supervisory approaches for Anthropic’s Mythos AI model and other third-party risk management guidance to be applied to banks, said Michelle Bowman, the Federal Reserve’s v... (more story)

Connecticut passes social media addiction, chatbot bills

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Connecticut lawmakers gave final approval to legislation backed by Attorney General William Tong that would impose new restrictions on social media platforms’ use of addictive features for minors... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

365 Retail, Cantaloupe reach merger settlement with US FTC

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Food self-checkout technology providers 365 Retail and Cantaloupe have agreed to divest  Cantaloupe’s Three Square Market business, as requested by the US Federal Trade Commission, to secure agen... (more story)

Sysco–Jetro deal poses complex antitrust test beyond traditional merger playbook

May 01, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

Sysco’s proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of Jetro Holdings, parent of Restaurant Depot, presents US enforcers with a familiar name but a structurally different problem from the distributor mergers that regul... (more story)

Push to change UK CMA's decision process prompts rare alignment of critics

May 01, 2026 | Jon Menon

Europe

The UK government is assessing feedback to its plans to re-engineer the system of decision making for in-depth merger and market probes at the country’s antitrust regulator. The breadth of the concerns raised ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

California’s privacy agency will keep exploring adequacy possibility with EU

May 01, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

California’s privacy agency will continue to explore the possibility of a potential deal for cross-border data transfers with the European Union, but it remains wary of the potential legal challenges and resou... (more story)

California’s privacy-focused whistleblower bill stalled this year

May 01, 2026 | Xu Yuan

North America

A legislative proposal supported by California’s privacy regulator to establish a whistleblower framework related to privacy practices has run into obstacles in the legislature and is unlikely to proceed this ... (more story)

As CISA cuts loom, companies need to step up cyber defenses

May 01, 2026 | Madeline Hughes

North America

Companies need to step up as the federal cybersecurity infrastructure in the US faces budget cuts, just as artificial intelligence-fueled attacks are on the rise.

Intellectual Property View More

BlackBerry loses India patent battle over messaging feature

May 01, 2026 | Freny Patel

Asia

BlackBerry’s patent appeal for a color-coded messaging feature was rejected by an Indian court. The Delhi High Court ruled that it lacked inventive step and technical advancement, classifying the US tech giant... (more story)

Japan IP court voids 'AI Announcer' trademark for software services

May 01, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan’s Intellectual Property High Court voided trademark protection for the term “AI Announcer” in connection with software-related services, finding that the phrase had already become a descriptive label for... (more story)

US Supreme Court ‘skinny label’ arguments focus on pleading standards, not patents

April 30, 2026 | Nick Robertson

North America

Multiple justices of the US Supreme Court appeared wary on Wednesday of an opinion that would change the standard for induced patent infringement during oral arguments in Hikma Pharmaceuticals v. Amarin Pharma... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Trump signs order widening US sanctions on Cuba

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing new sanctions on the Cuban government and widening existing measures to add restrictions under the International Emergency Economic Po... (more story)

US Treasury issues sanctions warning over Strait of Hormuz tolls

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued an alert warning the maritime industry that paying “tolls” to the Iranian regime for safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz... (more story)

Chinese oil terminal operator sanctioned by US for importing Iranian crude

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US State Department has blacklisted Qingdao Haiye Oil Terminal Co., Ltd., a China-based petroleum terminal operator that has imported tens of millions of barrels of sanctioned Iranian crude o... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US senators banned from using prediction markets

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Senator Bernie Moreno announced that the Senate has passed by unanimous consent a resolution banning sitting senators, officers, and staff from using prediction markets.

Reported Tether loan to Lutnick trust questioned by US Democratic senators

April 30, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden sent letters to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Paolo Ardoino, CEO of Tether, seeking information about a reported loan from Tether — a foreign co... (more story)

Delta Dental agrees to pay $2.25m to resolve New York allegations over data breach

April 30, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Delta Dental Insurance agreed to pay $2.25 million to resolve claims filed by New York’s Department of Financial Services for violating a cybersecurity regulation. A department investigation dete... (more story)

Trade View More

MAT Industries petitions for first-ever duty orders on air compressors

May 01, 2026 | Eliana Hubacker

Asia, North America

US manufacturer MAT Industries petitioned for antidumping and antisubsidy duty orders on air compressors from China, Malaysia, and Vietnam, marking the first time air compressors have been subject to a duty investigation.

US hails UN organization’s delay of global tax on shipping emissions

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US State Department hailed a committee with the United Nations’ International Maritime Organization, which voted to consider an alternative proposal from a global carbon tax on emissions from... (more story)

US trade commission votes for antidumping duty orders on Chinese MDI

May 01, 2026

Asia, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission has voted that sales of Chinese imports of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) at less than fair value are injurious to US industry. USITC will issue an an... (more story)

State Aid View More

Belgium enters exclusive negotiations to acquire Engie’s nuclear activities

April 30, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The Belgian state is negotiating to take over Engie’s nuclear-energy activities, including its seven reactors, which currently generate about half of the country’s electricity. The deal would tra... (more story)

Belgium sees EU Commission step up infringement procedure over arbitration awards

April 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has sent Belgium a reasoned opinion, or formal request to comply with EU law, accusing the country of circumventing the bloc's rules on state aid. The country had recogniz... (more story)

Businesses hit by energy crisis can get more support as EU relaxes state aid rules

April 29, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Energy-intensive industries will be able to receive larger subsidies, under a temporary relaxing of the state aid rules by the European Commission to respond to a spike in energy prices. Member s... (more story)

Energy View More

US official cites critical mineral procurement concerns with Project Vault

April 30, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

A key US official working on the Export-Import Bank’s new critical minerals stockpile said he remains concerned with the ability to procure enough minerals for the unprecedented effort. 

EU told to prepare for consequences if jet fuel stocks still declining beyond May

April 30, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU should start preparing for possible consequences if the decline in commercial stocks of jet fuel from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz continues beyond the end of May, experts from the ... (more story)

Countries to accelerate transition from fossil fuels, conference co-hosts say

April 30, 2026

Europe, Latin America

MLex Summary: Countries representing about one-third of global GDP have agreed on to step up efforts to transition away from fossil fuels at a conference in Colombia, co-hosts Colombia and The Netherlands have... (more story)

Technology View More

US FTC, states file second amended ROSCA complaint against Uber

May 01, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission, joined by a group of 21 states, the District of Columbia and Alameda County, California, has filed a second amended complaint alleging that Uber Technologies viol... (more story)

UK warns companies amid increasing cyber attacks

April 30, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: UK firms are urged to strengthen their cybersecurity, as AI models facilitate software breaches, the department for Science and Technology said on Thursday. A new report shows 43 per cent of busi... (more story)

Google sees Italian regulator’s request to EU Commission over publishers’ concerns

April 30, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The Italian communications regulator AGCOM sent a request of evaluation to the European Commission on Thursday over Google’s potential violations of the EU Digital Services Act. The request stems... (more story)