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Ticketmaster must be divested to remedy monopoly, states tell US court

UK SFO agents paid bribes in London Mining probe, defense filing alleges

YouTube, TikTok criticized over UK child safety, but rivals also put on notice

EU grid-funding overhaul faces mounting backlash from member states

US AI, cybersecurity order postponed amid Trump dissatisfaction

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Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Property

May 22, 2026 | Amy Miller

North America

Authors suing Meta might seek early US appellate review of shadow library claims

Trade

May 22, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Asia, Europe

Too few companies integrate geopolitical risk in business plans, EU industry chief says

Antitrust, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

May 21, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger and Wesley Brown

North America

Nexstar says preliminary US injunction goes too far, should be reversed
Authors suing Meta might seek early US appellate review of shadow library claims
Too few companies integrate geopolitical risk in business plans, EU industry chief says
Nexstar says preliminary US injunction goes too far, should be reversed

Antitrust View More

Philippine antitrust agency cautions rice importers on data sharing under price cap

May 26, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: The Philippine Competition Commission cautioned market participants to make commercial decisions independently and avoid sharing sensitive information such as prices, quantities and import volume... (more story)

Kerala state liquor distributor cleared of abuse claims by India tribunal

May 25, 2026 | Freny Patel

Asia

Antitrust allegations against the Kerala State Beverages Corporation, which enjoys exclusive control over the procurement and wholesale distribution of alcohol in the state of Kerala, have been dismissed by In... (more story)

Mastercard Australian trial sees economists clash over market power analysis

May 25, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

Economic experts appearing in an antitrust trial in an Australian court on Monday clashed over whether evidence of Mastercard’s market power could itself be used to define the relevant markets in which it oper... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Embodied AI tests limits of current governance frameworks

May 25, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez

Asia

Autonomous AI systems are rapidly moving beyond software into robots, vehicles and critical infrastructure, creating governance risks that existing AI frameworks were never designed to manage. Discussions at a... (more story)

Australian Senate inquiry into AI, data centers taking submissions

May 25, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Oceania

An Australian Senate committee is taking public submissions on whether current regulations are keeping pace with the rapid growth of data centers and their environmental, energy and water impacts. Data Centres... (more story)

Google tells US appeals court search monopoly ruling has ‘fundamental errors’

May 22, 2026 | Clayton Vickers and Khushita Vasant

North America

Google told a US appeals court Friday that a lower court’s ruling on remedies in an internet search monopolization case was fundamentally wrong, as it failed to distinguish between conduct harming competitors ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Indonesian logistics company faces hearing over late merger notification

May 26, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: The Indonesian Competition Commission said it held an initial hearing on Monday over allegations that logistics firm PT Semangat Logistik Andalan failed to notify the regulator on time about its ... (more story)

Vietnam increases thresholds for economic concentration notification requirements

May 25, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Vietnam's government has increased the thresholds for economic concentrations subject to notification in a recently published resolution designed to reduce administrative and business procedures.... (more story)

Stonepeak-Castrol deal to be reviewed by Australia's antitrust regulator

May 25, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: Alternative investment company Stonepeak’s proposed acquisition of lubricants business Castrol Group from BP is set to be reviewed by Australia’s antitrust watchdog. In a statement Monday, the Au... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Malaysia to strengthen platforms' child protection, risk mitigation

May 26, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Malaysia’s communications regulator has published two codes under the Online Safety Act 2025 requiring online platforms to adopt stronger child-protection and risk-mitigation measures, including ... (more story)

EU telecom lobby Connect Europe seeks improvements in draft digital rules

May 26, 2026

Europe

Connect Europe, which represents European telecom companies Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Telefónica, has issued a 12-point plan to improve the EU's Digital Networks Act, a draft EU telecom bill aimed at transf... (more story)

EU telecom sector seeks more ambitious digital rule revamp

May 26, 2026 | Matthew Newman

Europe

Connect Europe, the European telecom industry group, said the EU’s proposed telecom reform doesn’t go far enough to simplify the bloc’s rules or encourage investment, and that lawmakers should make it more amb... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Japan IP Court bars former cram-school franchisees from using chain's name

May 25, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan’s IP High Court upheld a ruling barring former cram-school franchise operators from continuing to use a tutoring chain’s trademarks, company names and internet domain names after termination of their fra... (more story)

China's MGI Tech sued by Oxford Nanopore in London over sequencing trade secrets

May 25, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia, Europe

Shenzhen-based MGI Tech has been sued in London by UK biotechnology company Oxford Nanopore Technologies over allegations that it misappropriated trade secrets involving genetic-sequencing technology.

US magistrate judge seeks specificity in Prema, Lamborghini trade secret row

May 22, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

Automobili Lamborghini S.p.A. and its American affiliate scored a partial win this week when a US magistrate judge in Texas directed Prema Engineering S.r.l. to provide additional detail on hypercar steering-w... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

South Korea to require registration, reporting for cross-border virtual-asset transfers

May 26, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea will implement new monitoring requirements for cross-border virtual-asset transfers six months after revisions to the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act are promulgated on June 2. Acco... (more story)

China jails man, police officers over abuse of national anti-fraud platform

May 25, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

A Chinese court has sentenced a Fujian-born man to more than three years in prison for orchestrating a scheme with multiple police officers to illegally access and sell citizens’ bank account data through the ... (more story)

US FDIC proposes rules to carry out BSA standards for bank stablecoin issuers

May 22, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. released draft rules to carry out Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions compliance standards applicable to bank stablecoin issuers under the 2025 GENIUS Act. The agency estimate... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Insurers’ Q2 reporting requirements published in EU Official Journal

May 22, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The figures that insurers must use to calculate technical provisions and basic own funds for reporting between March 31 and June 29 have now been updated by the European Commission, and published... (more story)

Indonesia antitrust regulator defends online lending cartel ruling against appeals

May 22, 2026 | Roffie Kuniawan

Asia

Indonesia’s competition regulator has urged a Jakarta court to reject appeals filed by 87 online lenders against its record interest-rate cartel ruling. The regulator argued that the lenders cannot rely on all... (more story)

Japan's financial sector urged to prepare for AI-powered cyberattacks

May 22, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Japanese financial regulators on Friday urged financial institutions to prepare for cyberattacks powered by frontier artificial intelligence, amid growing concerns that advanced AI tools such as ... (more story)

Trade View More

China's Wingtech launches anti-sanctions lawsuit over Dutch Nexperia intervention

May 25, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia, Europe

Chinese semiconductor company Wingtech Technology has sued Nexperia and related entities in China under the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, escalating its dispute over Dutch intervention that stripped the company ... (more story)

China auto industry group opposes proposed EU Industrial Accelerator Act

May 25, 2026

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: China’s auto industry association opposes the European Commission’s proposed Industrial Accelerator Act, saying in a statement Friday that the draft law would impose discriminatory restrictions o... (more story)

Five EU countries call for measures to protect bloc's industries from unfair trade practices

May 24, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: France, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania and Spain call in a document for short-, medium- and long-term measures to boost the EU's trade defense tools to better protect European industries from ... (more story)

State Aid View More

French support for fishing companies hit by Middle East crisis wins EU approval

May 22, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission has granted state aid clearance for €13 million of French support for fishing companies hit by rising fuel prices due to the crisis in the Middle East sparked by the US-Is... (more story)

Utiledulci's request to suspend state aid claw-back gets skeptical EU ruling

May 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Utiledulci’s request to suspend a Portuguese action to recoup illegal state aid has suffered a set-back after top EU judges said the bloc’s state aid rules trumped national procedural rules, whic... (more story)

EU farmers shielded from aid cuts where disaster insurance is unavailable

May 21, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU's top court has said that a 50 percent reduction in agricultural disaster aid cannot apply to farmers who can prove that suitable insurance for the goods they produce was unavailable on th... (more story)

Energy View More

EU grants €400m funding for 65 clean heat technology projects in 10 countries

May 22, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Sixty-five projects across 10 European countries have been granted €400 million from the European Commission in the first ever EU-wide auction to accelerate the deployment of clean heat technolog... (more story)

SpaceX US securities filing reveals xAI details, insight into AI regulatory risks

May 21, 2026 | Mike Swift

Europe, North America

From space-based AI data centers to unvarnished disclosures about a wide spectrum of legal and regulatory risk around xAI's Grok chatbot, the S-1 securities filing by SpaceX in advance of its initial public st... (more story)

EU targets simpler, less fragmented rules on raw materials recycling

May 21, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

The European Commission is focusing its raw materials overhaul on simplifying rules for reuse and recovery. In addition, it wants to reduce fragmentation inside the EU single market, which it says is preventin... (more story)

Technology View More

Access to Polymarket, related accounts in Indonesia blocked

May 25, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Access to the predictions website Polymarket and related social media accounts has been cut off by the Indonesian ministry of communication and digital affairs for violating domestic regulations.... (more story)

New Mexico judge ponders remedies for Meta in social media harm trial

May 22, 2026 | Madeline Hughes and Mike Swift

North America

On the last day of a bench trial about proposed remedies over Meta Platforms’ harm to children through unfair and deceptive practices, Judge Bryan Biedscheid peppered a senior Meta executive with questions abo... (more story)

Roblox likely can't force arbitration after failures to dismiss US child-safety lawsuit

May 22, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

A panel of three appeals court judges seemed disinclined to allow Roblox to force a father to arbitrate his child-safety lawsuit after the gaming company twice failed to get it thrown out of court.