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Booking loses EU court bid to annul Etraveli takeover (update*)

US-Canada trade war sees both sides dig in

EU govts look to soften asset-manager provisions in capital markets reform law

Frontier AI hacking incidents expose gaps in EU rulebook

Snapchat faces Dutch collective action over allegedly addictive design (update*)

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Photo illustration of a Canadian passport resting atop a U.S. flag

Trade

September 09, 2026

North America

Trump signs US orders to ban certain Canadian goods

Artificial Intelligence, Energy

September 08, 2026 | Amy Miller

North America

Calif. legislature sends data center bills to governor

Antitrust

September 08, 2026 | Clayton Vickers

North America

Agri Stats settlement ends direct purchasers’ US pork price-fixing claims
Trump signs US orders to ban certain Canadian goods
Calif. legislature sends data center bills to governor
Agri Stats settlement ends direct purchasers’ US pork price-fixing claims

Antitrust View More

Pratt & Whitney’s contract changes welcomed by IATA

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Changes by Pratt & Whitney Canada to its contract terms — to address EU competition concerns — have been welcomed by the International Air Transport Association. The changes remove restrictions o... (more story)

Italian waste-management interventions potentially saved €120m, study finds

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Interventions by the Italian competition authority between 2023 and 2025 — against inadequately justified direct awards of waste-management contracts — had the potential to cut collection and tra... (more story)

China courts clarify unfair-competition risks for AI, digital conduct

September 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top court on Wednesday released nine typical unfair-competition cases illustrating how existing rules can apply to AI-generated content, platform workarounds and other emerging digital practices, as pa... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

China top court issues first AI dispute guidelines, leaves copyright questions open

September 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top court has issued its first judicial guidelines for artificial-intelligence disputes, clarifying fault, platform liability and evidentiary burdens while leaving unresolved whether training AI models... (more story)

OpenAI eyes South Korean 'inference residency' amid rapid ChatGPT growth

September 09, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

Asia

South Korea remains one of ChatGPT’s fastest-growing markets, with OpenAI working to bring "inference residency" to the country by securing sufficient domestic computing power, the head of its South Korean ope... (more story)

Samsung invests in Mistral AI, adopts its AI systems for chipmaking

September 09, 2026

Asia, Europe

MLex Summary: Samsung Electronics on Wednesday announced a strategic partnership with Mistral AI to enhance its semiconductor engineering and manufacturing capabilities using the French company’s artificial in... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Booking fails to overturn Etraveli prohibition in EU court appeal

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Booking has lost its challenge at the EU's lower-tier court to the European Commission's prohibition of its acquisition of Etraveli. The General Court said it upheld the merger block, and the EU ... (more story)

Linfox Armaguard designated under Australia's cash-distribution law

September 09, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: Australia’s dominant cash-in-transit provider Linfox Armaguard has been designated by the country’s central bank under the new cash-distribution framework, the competition regulator said. In a st... (more story)

Australia's new merger regime saw 450 filings in first six months, official says

September 09, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

Australia’s competition watchdog received nearly 450 merger notifications and waiver applications in the first six months of its new mandatory merger regime, compared with about 330 notifications a year under ... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Online platforms face UK deadline to curb spread of illegal deepfakes

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Online platforms have three weeks to put measures in place to stop illegal intimate images — including AI-generated deepfakes — from spreading on their services, the UK's online safety watchdog h... (more story)

Thailand maps wider use of digital credentials, eyes ASEAN expansion

September 09, 2026 | Choltanutkun Tun-atiruj

Asia

Thailand's Electronic Transactions Development Agency is developing a framework for wider use of verifiable credentials, or VCs, that would allow people to prove attributes such as their age without disclosing... (more story)

BBVA’s Italian arm faces €5.5m GDPR fine over failed marketing opt-out

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria's Italian arm has been fined just over €5.5 million by the country's data-protection authority, after a technical disconnect between its app and CRM system meant t... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

China top IP court refines patent judgments amid rise in emerging-industry cases

September 09, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s top intellectual property court is reshaping its approach to judgments to better coordinate infringement litigation with administrative patent challenges, amid a sharp rise in cases involving strategic... (more story)

Japan ramps up public spending on content as Cool Japan Fund falters

September 09, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Japan is seeking a sharp increase in public spending on creators and the content industry just as mounting losses at the government-backed Cool Japan Fund force policymakers to reconsider an earlier model for ... (more story)

China widens lead over US in WIPO innovation cluster rankings

September 08, 2026 | Melissa Ritti

Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America

The US lost two entries in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s list of the top 100 geographies for innovation while China added one, with a patent-intensive battery hub accounting for the annual ran... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Judge improperly threw out businessman’s bribery conviction, US says in appeal

September 08, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

A US judge abused his authority when he tossed out the foreign bribery conviction of a Texas-based Mexican businessman, federal prosecutors said in their appeal of the judge’s decision.

US asks appellate courts to vacate Corporate Transparency Act decisions

September 08, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US is asking the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in two cases to vacate decisions relating to the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act so it can go to a lower court a... (more story)

Iranian airlines, intermediaries sanctioned by US

September 08, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Under Operation Economic Outcast, the US Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned 36 targets for supporting Iran’s aviation sector, which the regime uses to move weapons,... (more story)

Financial Services View More

US SEC subpoenas investment advisor ISS after refusal to comply with investigation

September 08, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: The US Securities and Exchange Commission subpoenaed investment advisor International Shareholder Services for information about its compliance with federal securities laws after the company refu... (more story)

Quick EU bank prudential changes risk ‘race to bottom,’ commission official says

September 08, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Europe

Almorò Rubin de Cervin, a senior European Commission official, on Tuesday rejected banks’ calls for immediate, targeted changes to EU prudential rules, warning that such moves could trigger a race to the botto... (more story)

Former Swiss banking lobbyist Mirabaud handed suspended sentence over Kuwaiti bribery

September 08, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Former Swiss Bankers Association head Pierre Mirabaud has been handed a two-year suspended sentence after admitting bribery and money laundering allegations. Mirabaud, a former private banker, wa... (more story)

Trade View More

Russian fertilizer makers lose bid to stop extended EU ammonium nitrate duties

September 09, 2026 | Cynthia Kroet

Europe

Russian fertilizer producers Nevinnomysskiy Azot and NAK Azot have lost their legal challenge against the European Commission’s 2020 decision to extend anti-dumping duties on ammonium nitrate imports from Russ... (more story)

PT Indonesia Ruipu Nickel and Chrome Alloy loses appeal to trade tariffs at EU court

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Stainless-steel cold-rolled flat products maker PT Indonesia Ruipu Nickel and Chrome Alloy has lost its legal challenge to EU trade measures on Indonesian imports of stainless steel cold-rolled f... (more story)

Russian fertilizer makers lose EU court challenge to ammonium nitrate duties

September 09, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Russian fertilizer makers Nevinnomysskiy Azot and NAK Azot's legal challenge against the European Commission’s 2020 extension of anti-dumping duties on ammonium nitrate has been rejected by the E... (more story)

State Aid View More

EU to press ahead with FSR information requests outside the bloc, official says

September 08, 2026 | Anna Ferrari

Asia, Europe

The European Commission will continue asking for information under the EU foreign subsidies rules for mergers despite China's instructions to its companies not to cooperate with the requests, an official from ... (more story)

Belgian funding for Flemish nature reserves wasn’t state aid, EU says

September 08, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Public funding by authorities in Belgium’s Flanders region to non-profit groups Natuurpunt Beheer, Durme and Limburgs Landschap to acquire land and transform it into nature reserves did not const... (more story)

Germany’s €400m aid to Sanofi for insulin production wins EU clearance

September 08, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany has secured EU state aid clearance to give €400 million of support to drugmaker Sanofi, to cover the costs of a program designed to strengthen the resilience of its supply of insulin. The... (more story)

Energy View More

Agribusiness faces uncertainty as UN land-degradation talks stall

September 09, 2026 | Louis de Briant

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

Agribusinesses and investors face continued uncertainty over global drought rules, after UN land talks in Mongolia in August pushed a decision on the issue to the next conference in 2028, exposing how geopolit... (more story)

EU countries press for clarity on post-2030 carbon market overhaul

September 08, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

EU countries are pressing the European Commission to rethink key elements of its proposed post-2030 Emissions Trading System overhaul, an internal document shows. The text compiles comments from 17 countries r... (more story)

Philippines maps nationwide AI infrastructure push as power constraints loom

September 08, 2026 | James Konstantin Galvez

Asia

The Philippines unveiled an AI infrastructure masterplan on Tuesday that will move away from a Metro Manila-centric model, with the government looking to develop regional corridors that can provide the power, ... (more story)

Technology View More

Japan's DPA to broaden consultations on amended privacy-law rules

September 09, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Japan’s data protection authority plans to broaden stakeholder consultations as it drafts implementation rules for the amended privacy law. The Personal Information Protection Commission said Wed... (more story)

Tech Council opposes amendments to Australia's under-16 social-media ban

September 09, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: The Tech Council of Australia, an industry body representing technology companies including Amazon Web Services, Atlassian, Google, LinkedIn and Microsoft, said the proposed amendments to enforce... (more story)

UK law for device-level child protections now in the works; no timetable given (update*)

September 08, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo

Europe

Major tech platforms will be required to build in device-level protections for children under planned new UK legislation, culture minister Lisa Nandy told lawmakers Tuesday, three months after companies were t... (more story)