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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy and Security, Technology

September 19, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo and Sara Brandstätter

Europe

Standalone AI chatbots test limits of European online child-protection regimes

Energy, Financial Services, Trade

September 19, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

Russian banks, energy companies, third countries targeted with new EU sanctions

Antitrust View More

US judge in Google search suit says scale of antitrust litigation 'challenging'

September 20, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

US District Judge Amit Mehta, who recently handed down a ruling in the nearly five-year old Internet search monopolization lawsuit brought by the government against Google, said the scale of antitrust cases is challenging.

RealPage settles rent-setting case with Nevada, with no admission of wrongdoing

September 20, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: RealPage has reached a settlement and consent judgment with the state of Nevada regarding its revenue management software use in Nevada and allegations of anticompetitive conduct. RealPage denied... (more story)

REX asks US Supreme Court to review Zillow, National Association of Realtors case

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Real Estate Exchange, or REX, asked the US Supreme Court to review its antitrust case challenging a National Association of Realtors “optional” rule over real estate listings. In its petition for... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

Suno hit with amended 'stream ripping' complaint by music companies over AI-generated music

September 20, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: AI music company Suno was hit by additional allegations by UMG Recordings, Sony Music Entertainment and other record companies that the generative AI music startup acquired the music it trained i... (more story)

AI 'slop' hits worrisome note for recording industry: Can regulation protect creators?

September 19, 2025 | Mike Swift

North America

Music platforms like Deezer are being flooded with ersatz AI-generated tunes, social media platforms like Reddit face an inundation by machine-generated text and images. Is there a role for regulation and legi... (more story)

Xockets US antitrust claims against NVIDIA, RPX, Microsoft stayed

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Xockets' US antitrust claims against NVIDIA, RPX Corp. and Microsoft have been stayed pending resolution of NVIDIA's motion to transfer venue to the US Northern District of California, according ... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Fired DOJ official Rinner urges short US premerger form, praises former colleagues

September 19, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Fired Deputy Assistant Attorney General Bill Rinner complimented his former antitrust-enforcement colleagues in the Trump-Vance administration for their "surgical approach" to combating merger antitrust harms ... (more story)

Saipem-Subsea7 deal in Brazil draws concern from Petrobras, ExxonMobil, TechnipFMC

September 19, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Europe

Three key stakeholders in Brazil’s offshore oil and gas sector – Petrobras, ExxonMobil, TechnipFMC – and the Brazilian Association of Oil and Gas Exploration Companies have requested third-party status in a re... (more story)

US FTC restructuring regional offices on competition matters, Guarnera says

September 19, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

The US Federal Trade Commission is restructuring how competition cases are handled at its regional offices with the aim of creating a more efficient and flexible reporting mechanism, said Daniel Guarnera, dire... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Google 'Incognito' privacy settlement faces US challenge from intervention bid

September 19, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

A panel of US appellate judges signaled little interest in reopening a landmark privacy settlement with Google to let 185 people intervene and pursue class claims over its alleged collection of their private browsing data.

School districts, social media companies spar over bellwether trial order for US cases

September 19, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

US school districts and the social media platforms they are suing are asking a federal judge to decide the order of six bellwether trials that are slated to take place next summer in multidistrict litigation o... (more story)

Shopify moves to dismiss US wiretapping class action

September 19, 2025 | Maria Dinzeo

North America

MLex Summary: Shopify is seeking dismissal of a proposed privacy class action claiming the e-commerce platform secretly intercepts and collects consumers’ private information when they make purchases on mercha... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Mandamus petitions pile up as challenges to revamped US PTAB continue

September 19, 2025 | Melissa Ritti

North America

Sandisk on Thursday said reliance on patent age to turn away challenges to validity is “lawless on every level.” The company's mandamus petition is the fifth in recent months to take issue with what Sandisk ch... (more story)

EU Commission official flags weak AI licensing market ahead of copyright review

September 19, 2025 | Inbar Preiss

Europe

The European Commission is preparing to review copyright rules in 2026, as the head of the intellectual property unit warns of a weak AI licensing market. The commission is currently analyzing remuneration as ... (more story)

Licensing of SEPs is key to telecom networking investment, says Ericsson executive

September 19, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Europe

Corporate investment in telecom networking equipment innovation is driven by effective licensing of standard-essential patents, an executive from Swedish company Ericsson said Friday. Gabriele Mohsler also sai... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

US Democratic lawmakers want explanation for delay of anti-money laundering rule

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim, and Representative Maxine Waters, sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raising concerns about the department's decision to not only postpon... (more story)

Cartel allegations against Mexican businessman supported by evidence, US says

September 19, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

North America

Allegations that a Mexican businessman charged in the US with corruption has ties to a Mexican drug cartel are serious and supported by evidence obtained as part of a government investigation, prosecutors said... (more story)

Mexican businessman has ties to cartels, US says in reply to retraction request

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Allegations that Ramon Alexandro Rovirosa Martinez, a Mexican businessman charged in the US with corruption, has ties to a Mexican drug cartel are serious and supported by evidence obtained as pa... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Eurozone ministers agree on procedure for digital euro holding limits, issuance

September 19, 2025 | Helena Freitas

Europe

Finance ministers from countries using the euro agreed a procedure to set limits on digital euro holdings on Friday and to give the national governments of the EU a role before the European Central Bank decide... (more story)

Mediobanca turned to EU court in last-ditch effort to stop MPS takeover

September 19, 2025 | Andrew Boyce and Jean Comte

Europe

Mediobanca made a last-ditch attempt to thwart its hostile takeover by rival bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena by appealing the European Central Bank approval that enabled the deal, MLex has learned. The legal ch... (more story)

US FinCEN seeks delay of investment adviser anti-money laundering rule to 2028

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has proposed to delay the effective date of a rule requiring investment advisers to implement anti-money laundering compliance pr... (more story)

Trade View More

Canada revokes two challenges against US lumber duties

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Canada has revoked two separate claims disputing the US antidumping duty orders on Canadian softwood lumber for products traded between June 2017 and December 2019, according to a statement from ... (more story)

Trump's new trade actions pressure nations to impose tariffs

September 19, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

The Trump administration is expanding its foreign policy strategy by pressuring other countries to join the US in imposing tariffs or taking other trade action, part of an effort to achieve Washington’s geopol... (more story)

US Senate confirms key trade nominees

September 19, 2025 | Bradley Dress

North America

The US Senate has confirmed several key nominees for the Trump administration in a batch of fast-track nominations. 

State Aid View More

Merger review must scrutinize deals’ impact on sustainability, EU's Ribera says

September 19, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts

Europe

A merger’s impact on sustainability should be a concern for regulators, according to the EU’s competition boss, who made a plea for more transparency around and better analysis of the costs of pollution. Teres... (more story)

German €7.9bn expansion of renewable energy scheme approved by EU

September 18, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Germany has been granted state aid approval for a €7.9 billion (around $9.3 billion) expansion in the budget of a scheme to support electricity production from renewable energy sources, the Europ... (more story)

Advocates general for EU's first-tier court elected

September 17, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: EU judges Maja Brkan and José Martín y Pérez de Nanclares have been elected to act as advocates general at the EU's lower-tier General Court. They will provide non-binding legal opinions on cases... (more story)

Energy View More

Swiss power and gas company MET Group starts operations in Poland

September 19, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Swiss energy company MET Group announced on Thursday its entry into the Polish market through its new subsidiary, MET Polska. The company will focus on supplying electricity and natural gas to la... (more story)

Estonia opens Europe’s largest rare-earth magnet factory

September 19, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Estonia has opened Europe’s largest rare-earth magnet factory, the European Commission said on Friday. The new facility in Narva, which has been financed through the EU's Just Transition Fund, wi... (more story)

EU climate leadership in doubt as ministers fail to set 2035 target, Greenpeace says

September 19, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The EU risks losing its credibility as a climate leader at a key United Nations climate conference after failing to agree on a climate target for 2035, Greenpeace said on Thursday. A meeting of E... (more story)

Technology View More

US judge in Amazon ‘dark pattern’ case quashes FTC subpoena to company

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: A federal judge granted Amazon’s motion to quash a subpoena by the US Federal Trade Commission that commands Amazon.com Inc. to testify at the upcoming trial over allegations Amazon engaged in ma... (more story)

New York enforcer concerned corruption hurting antitrust cases under Trump

September 19, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

There are “real concerns” about political corruption in the Trump administration and the risk that poses to ongoing enforcement, according to a top New York antitrust enforcer, while the state attorney general... (more story)

Google says US DOJ misunderstands how adtech markets work, remedies overreaching

September 19, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Google said remedies proposed by the US Department of Justice in its lawsuit over the tech giant's advertising technology market practices "go significantly" beyond the court's ruling and would h... (more story)