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Belgian moves on ratifying EU-Canada trade deal put focus on other holdouts

Meta settles US addictive algorithm cases, will alter platforms, pay up to $17bn

US-Canada rift casts shadow on global trade deals

Uber feels the heat of Denmark’s call-in powers

Air France-KLM’s SAS deal timetable hinges on avoiding in-depth EU probe

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Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser

Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security

August 26, 2026 | Emma Whitford and Amy Miller

North America

AI chatbots offer next front for US state AGs following Meta settlement

Data Privacy and Security

August 26, 2026 | Henrique Santiago

Latin America

Brazil sues Discord, seeks hefty compensation over minors' protections

Trade

August 26, 2026 | Zack Budryk

North America

Canada faces smoother road on retaliatory tariffs than US
AI chatbots offer next front for US state AGs following Meta settlement
Brazil sues Discord, seeks hefty compensation over minors' protections
Canada faces smoother road on retaliatory tariffs than US

Antitrust View More

China's Shanghai ride-hailing platforms tighten compliance after $3.7m fines

August 27, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

Seventeen ride-hailing platforms in Shanghai have pledged tighter controls over driver and vehicle qualifications, pricing, commissions and regulatory data reporting under a new industry self-regulation code. ... (more story)

Australian court issues first-ever no-adverse-costs order in Bunnings case

August 27, 2026 | Sean Maguire

Oceania

Bunnings Group could be forced to pay millions of dollars in legal fees even if it defeats a misuse-of-market-power lawsuit after an Australian court granted smaller rival Woodman Beenleigh protection from Bun... (more story)

South Korea seeks to reform penalty rules under Large Retail Business Act

August 27, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: South Korea’s competition regulator proposed changes to penalty rules under the Act on Fair Transactions in Large Retail Business to make monetary penalties better reflect the scale of violations... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

China plans AI manufacturing drive spanning chips, open source

August 27, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China will use industrial applications to drive artificial-intelligence innovation and industry growth during the 2026-2030 period, while strengthening the broader ecosystem, safety governance and internationa... (more story)

South Korea music copyright group reverses AI rules amid stakeholder divisions

August 27, 2026 | Choonsik Yoo

Asia

The Korea Music Copyright Association has withdrawn new filing and registration criteria for AI-assisted musical works less than a month after adopting them, citing requests from the National Assembly and the ... (more story)

Singapore weighs AI training safeguards, patent inventorship rules in IP review

August 27, 2026 | Toko Sekiguchi

Asia

Singapore is considering whether to make clearer when contractual restrictions can prevent AI developers from relying on a copyright exception for training, as part of a broader review of how its intellectual ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Coles drops Australian court challenge over Kalgoorlie site acquisition decision

August 27, 2026 | Saloni Sinha

Oceania

Coles Supermarkets Australia has withdrawn its parallel court challenge to the competition regulator’s decision to block its acquisition of a leasehold in Kalgoorlie in the state of Western Australia. Accordin... (more story)

Union Pacific says full US review of Norfolk Southern deal should begin

August 26, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Union Pacific said it has demonstrated that its opponents’ prima facie challenges to the regulatory review of its merger with Norfolk Southern should be squarely rejected. The company said its fi... (more story)

Sysco-Restaurant Depot opposition builds around loss of pricing check

August 26, 2026 | Flavia Fortes

North America

Opposition to Sysco’s proposed $29.1 billion acquisition of Restaurant Depot is spreading across lawmakers, state officials, restaurant operators and competition-policy groups, with critics warning the deal co... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Australia children's privacy code mirrors some Meta US safeguards, regulator says

August 27, 2026

Oceania

MLex Summary: Australia’s draft Children’s Online Privacy Code includes proposed safeguards similar to some Meta Platforms agreed to under a US settlement worth up to $17.1 billion over claims that Facebook an... (more story)

HD Hyundai Group affiliates fined in South Korea over 2024 privacy breach

August 27, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Two affiliates of HD Hyundai Group have been fined a combined 78.3 million won ($56,769) in South Korea over a data breach in 2024 that exposed personal information of 9,503 employees and workers... (more story)

Meta struggled to overcome damning testimony before record US settlement

August 26, 2026 | Mike Swift and Maria Dinzeo

North America

US state attorneys general said Wednesday that the coalition they built in their addictive-design cases against Meta Platforms, and the states' strong performance in the first federal bellwether trial that beg... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

China charts broader trade secret protection for specialized AI models

August 27, 2026 | MLex Staff

Asia

China’s market regulator has highlighted what it calls the country’s first trade secret enforcement case involving an industry-specific large model, extending protection beyond source code to other technical i... (more story)

Meta wins dismissal of AI training copyright suit, but amendment permitted

August 26, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US District Judge Charles Breyer has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Meta Platforms of stripping copyright information from 3D models used to train its generative AI systems, violating... (more story)

Sisvel says point-of-sale pool formed faster than expected amid legal disputes

August 26, 2026 | Steve Scherer

Asia, Europe, Latin America, North America

Sisvel rapidly assembled its cellular point-of-sale patent licensing platform after private negotiations and courtroom clashes demonstrated demand for a collective mechanism in a well-established technology se... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Dolfin Financial trio banned from UK financial services over visa scheme

August 26, 2026 | Martin Coyle

Europe

The co-founder and owner of Dolfin Financial, as well as two of its former senior executives, have been banned from the UK’s financial services industry for a multimillion-pound scheme that helped clients to b... (more story)

Florida man pleads guilty to exporting weapons components in Russia-based scheme

August 25, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: Maxim Larin pleaded guilty to conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and attempting to violate the Arms Export Control Act in connection with his shipment of weapons parts and access... (more story)

Kushner's Albania land purchase under potential US House foreign bribery probe

August 25, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US Congressman Jamie Raskin, ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, expanded his investigation into a luxury resort development in Albania being planned by Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Feedback on EU banks’ op-risk management framework sought by EBA

August 26, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Banking Authority has opened a consultation on rules specifying the operational risk management framework under the Capital Requirements Regulation. The draft text — a Regulatory Tec... (more story)

Schufa defends controversial credit database despite Noyb allegations

August 26, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Credit scoring agency Schufa has said it will defend its method of storing customer data in court, if privacy activist group Noyb follows through with its threat of a class action lawsuit. Schufa... (more story)

Noyb threatens legal action against German credit agency Schufa for ‘shadow database’

August 26, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: German credit agency Schufa has been threatened with legal action by privacy group Noyb over its allegedly unlawful retention of customer data. Journalists and activist groups accused Schufa of s... (more story)

Trade View More

US appeals court sustains trade court ruling on artist canvas

August 26, 2026 | Bradley Dress

North America

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Wednesday upheld a trade court ruling on artist canvas from China, agreeing that an importer's products are subject to a 2006 antidumping order. 

USITC says steel rebar from Bulgaria, Egypt, Vietnam injure domestic industry

August 26, 2026

Africa, Asia, Europe, North America

MLex Summary: The US International Trade Commission unanimously concluded that a domestic industry is materially injured by imports of steel concrete reinforcing bar from Bulgaria, Egypt and Vietnam. Because t... (more story)

US Teflon producer pushes for duties on Indian imports

August 26, 2026 | Bradley Dress

Asia, North America

The producer of Teflon argued at the US International Trade Commission on Wednesday for antidumping and antisubsidy duties on subject imports from India that are challenging the market for the plastic resin ch... (more story)

State Aid View More

Germany wins EU approval for €75m aid to Stadion Oldenburg

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany has won approval for its plan to grant 75 million euros to Stadion Oldenburg for the construction and operation of a stadium for football and other sports, the European Commission said on... (more story)

EU probe into Post Danmark capital injection now open for feedback

August 12, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: The European Commission is seeking feedback as part of its ongoing investigation into a capital injection made by PostNord into its Post Danmark subsidiary in 2017. The commission opened an in-de... (more story)

RWE, Spain sent to ECJ by German court over investment arbitration award

August 10, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Litigation between German utility RWE and the Spanish government is heading to the EU's top court after German judges sought guidance on when the bloc's state aid law might impede the enforcement... (more story)

Energy View More

Climate litigation boom makes states’ obligations clear, corporate ones less so

August 26, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Climate litigation is increasingly defining governments' and companies' obligations as climate science and legal precedents develop. While landmark cases have helped entrench the duties that states have and pr... (more story)

EU Commission points to national powers amid calls for bloc-wide oil windfall tax

August 25, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Europe

Windfall profit taxes remain a matter for EU countries to decide using their national fiscal powers, the European Commission said after six countries called for an EU-wide framework to tax oil companies' excep... (more story)

Six EU countries seek windfall tax targeting oil majors’ foreign profits

August 25, 2026

Europe

MLex Summary: Six EU countries are calling for an EU-wide framework to tax oil companies' windfall profits as energy prices remain high. Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain want EU finance mini... (more story)

Technology View More

Meta faces Indonesia scrutiny over erroneous WhatsApp account disabling

August 27, 2026

Asia

MLex Summary: Indonesia's Ministry of Communication and Digital Affairs has stepped up scrutiny of Meta over the erroneous disabling of WhatsApp accounts, summoning the company's Asia-Pacific representative af... (more story)

Meta settlement marks latest state success, independent of US government

August 26, 2026 | Alex Wilts, Khushita Vasant, Madeline Hughes, Curtis Eichelberger, Mike Swift

North America

Meta Platforms’ settlement with US state attorneys general for up to $17.1 billion over alleged addictive social media algorithms is the latest sign that states are asserting themselves across industries to cu... (more story)

Meta settlement with US states over addictive algorithms gets judge's approval

August 26, 2026

North America

MLex Summary: US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers entered a final judgment approving a $17.1 billion settlement between Meta Platforms and 27 state attorneys general. The deal also requires Meta to make c... (more story)