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Gautam Adani

Financial Crime

September 03, 2026 | Tony Cooke

North America

US judge again rejects DOJ's bid to dismiss Adani case charges
Futuristic AI Server Room with Data Flow and Glowing Chip

Artificial Intelligence, DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

September 03, 2026 | Flavia Fortes and Andrew Boyce

Europe, North America

Nvidia's Hugging Face openness pledge identifies US, EU antitrust fault line
A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 at Barcelona El Prat Airport in Spain on Feb. 16, 2025.

State Aid

September 03, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst

Europe

Ryanair’s bid for EU state aid injunction against Lufthansa is rejected by court

Antitrust View More

Canada's Competition Bureau weighs in on interprovincial trade of red meat

September 04, 2026 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Canada's Competition Bureau weighed in on the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's proposal to amend regulations for red meat Friday, endorsing a proposed exemption to cut red tape hampering interprovincial trade.

Verisign, ICANN face antitrust claims in US over domain registrations

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Verisign and the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers have been accused in a private US complaint of maintaining an illegal monopoly over the registration of .com domains. Accordin... (more story)

Broadcasters push US Supreme Court to review DirecTV's antitrust case over fees

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Nexstar Media Group, Mission Broadcasting and White Knight Broadcasting filed a reply in support of their petition for the US Supreme Court to review DirecTV's case accusing them of conspiring to... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

xAI loses bid to block Minnesota's AI nudification law

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: xAI’s bid to temporarily block Minnesota’s new anti-“nudification” law (HF 1605) has been denied by a federal judge. US District Judge Donovan W. Frank did not decide whether the law violated the... (more story)

OpenAI says news publishers can't own facts in US copyright case

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: OpenAI moved for judgment against news publishers’ US copyright claims over the use of their content to train large language models, arguing that they can't claim exclusive rights over the facts ... (more story)

OpenAI agent breach strains IP rules built around human conduct

September 04, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

North America

A recent unauthorized download of private code and data hosted on Hugging Face — and public staging of some of the same material — is surfacing new questions about liability under US intellectual property law,... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Brazil's CADE clears McCormick's acquisition of Unilever's global foods business

September 04, 2026

Latin America

MLex Summary: Brazil's competition authority has unconditionally approved McCormick's proposed acquisition of sole control over substantially all of Unilever's global foods business. The transaction excludes U... (more story)

Supreme Court should reject Iowa, Montana bid to expedite Paramount-WBD case, Calif. argues

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: California and other US states suing to block Paramount's proposed acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery argue Iowa and Montana's request for the US Supreme Court to expedite consideration of the... (more story)

US House Democrats advocate for tough vetting of Union Pacific merger's labor impacts

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: A coalition of 101 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives signed onto a joint letter to the US Surface Transportation Board urging the federal agency to meticulously scrutinize the... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Calif. SB 690 trims privacy litigation without closing door

September 04, 2026 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

A far narrower version of a bill intended to curb California Invasion of Privacy Act litigation has cleared the state Legislature. While it won’t shut off the spigot of lawsuits, it will eliminate some of the ... (more story)

Blue Shield of Calif. files reply in support of dismissing US privacy claims

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Blue Shield of California filed a reply in support of its motion to dismiss US claims accusing it of illegally sharing its subscribers’ personal data with Google, saying the amended complaint doe... (more story)

Platform data would underpin EU tests for short-term rental restrictions, draft shows

September 04, 2026 | Júlia Tar

Europe

Data the EU collects from online platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com could be used by local authorities to justify restrictions on short-term rentals under a new law to protect housing affordability, a draft... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

OpenAI moves for judgment against authors’ US copyright claims

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: OpenAI told a US federal judge that its transformative use of authors’ copyrighted works has not harmed them, moving for summary judgment against infringement claims. “The undisputed evidence in ... (more story)

News publishers move for judgment against Microsoft, OpenAI in US copyright case

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: News publishers moved for summary judgment in their US copyright case against Microsoft and OpenAI over their use of their content to train artificial intelligence models, arguing that the AI's r... (more story)

Microsoft moves for judgment against news publishers' US copyright claims

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Microsoft told a US federal judge that training a large language model that “captures the sweep of human language and knowledge” is “new and different and far beyond any previously existing use o... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

McKinsey sees €65 million seized as part of French/Belgian tax probe

September 04, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

French and Belgian prosecutors seized €65 million from US consultancy firm McKinsey as part on an ongoing probe into alleged tax fraud. The investigation into the consultancy was opened following a French parl... (more story)

US DOJ bid to dismiss charges in Adani case denied by court

September 03, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US District Judge Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis of the Eastern District of New York has denied a motion from the US Department of Justice to dismiss charges against five defendants in a corruption c... (more story)

Ethical Forestry trio jailed for combined 15 years over Costa Rica tree fraud

September 03, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

Three former directors of English company Ethical Forestry who defrauded UK investors out of £70 million through a tree-based investment scheme in Costa Rica to support their lavish lifestyles have been jailed... (more story)

Financial Services View More

European, Indian securities regulators agree to deepen clearing cooperation

September 04, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Securities and Markets Authority has signed a cooperation agreement with India’s Securities and Exchange Board to support the recognition of Indian clearing houses. The deal allows c... (more story)

EU Basel III rules offset provision expected to pass scrutiny period unopposed

September 04, 2026 | Fanny Roux

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

An EU legal text allowing banks to use a temporary multiplier to offset capital increases under Basel III market risk rules is expected to pass its three-month scrutiny period by Sept. 5 without opposition fro... (more story)

US SEC proposes cancellation of 2010 'pay-to-play' rule

September 03, 2026 | Neil Roland

North America

The US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed to retract its 2010 “pay-to-play” rule that prohibits investment advisers from providing paid services to a government client for two years after making a pol... (more story)

Trade View More

US trade court upholds Commerce wind-tower cost analysis

September 04, 2026 | Bradley Dress

Asia, North America

The US Court of International Trade on Friday sustained the Commerce Department’s latest remand of a review of an antidumping order on utility-scale wind towers from South Korea.

US trade court sustains Commerce remand on frozen fish fillets

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Court of International Trade Judge Timothy Stanceu upheld the Department of Commerce's remand of a review of an antidumping order on frozen fish fillets from Vietnam after no party disputed the latest remand.

Canada's Competition Bureau supports reducing barriers to interprovincial trade in red meat

September 04, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Canada's Competition Bureau issued comments supporting the Canadian Food Inspection Agency's efforts to reduce unnecessary barriers to interprovincial trade in red meat while maintaining importan... (more story)

State Aid View More

Banca Tercas suffered serious breach in state-aid probe, EU court says

September 03, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Europe

The European Commission committed a serious breach of EU state aid rules when it wrongly classified support for Banca Tercas as unlawful aid, the EU’s top court has ruled. However, judges rejected BdM Banca's ... (more story)

Bidders in Greek energy tenders face EU exclusion under foreign-subsidy rules

September 03, 2026 | Lewis Crofts

Europe

The European Commission is moving to exclude three companies from participating in public tenders in Greece’s energy sector, after they failed to provide enough information under rules designed to reveal the i... (more story)

BdM Banca shouldn’t get compensation over defeated state aid case, EU top court says

September 03, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: BdM Banca isn't entitled to €203.3 million in compensation from the European Commission for damage allegedly caused by its unlawful Tercas state aid decision, the EU's top court said on Thursday.... (more story)

Energy View More

Spain seeks binding EU climate adaptation targets, dedicated fund

September 04, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Binding EU climate adaptation targets for sectors including water, infrastructure and agriculture should form part of the European Commission's upcoming climate resilience framework, Spain has told EU Climate ... (more story)

AI data centers' water usage costs target of US House bill

September 03, 2026 | Emma Whitford

North America

Data centers' water usage took center stage at a US House hearing, with Republicans saying developers should cover the cost of their water needs, and Democrats urging environmental as well as financial guardra... (more story)

Lower-than-usual gas storage poses no immediate supply risk, EU says

September 03, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Lower-than-usual EU gas storage levels pose no immediate supply risk for the coming winter, EU countries and the European Commission have said. The bloc remains on track for adequate preparedness... (more story)

Technology View More

Google adtech monopoly decision prioritizes speed to bolster competition

September 04, 2026 | Khushita Vasant

North America

Google escaped a corporate split of its online advertising business this week but couldn't avert court-imposed behavioral remedies that will likely inject competition into the adtech markets faster than any at... (more story)

UK providers face wider reporting under cyber bill as govt weighs extra AI controls

September 04, 2026 | Imogen Howse

Europe

UK providers of essential services and relevant digital and managed services will face a broader test for reporting cyber incidents under changes to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, after the government... (more story)

File-sharing site agrees CSAM safeguards to avoid UK probe; porn platform fined

September 04, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

A file-sharing service has avoided a formal online safety probe in the UK after agreeing to strengthen its safeguards against child sexual abuse material, regulator Ofcom said on Friday, as it separately fined... (more story)