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Artificial Intelligence, Technology
January 22, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi and Sara Brandstätter
Europe
Financial Crime, Financial Services
January 21, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
Europe, North America
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
January 21, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Europe, North America
Antitrust View More
January 22, 2026 | Nicholas Hirst
Europe
Labor cartels, collusion over market characteristics other than price, and indirect information exchange are all on the EU antitrust authority’s radar going forward, according to Maria Jaspers, the European Co... (more story)
January 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: World Aquatics asked a US federal judge to enter a judgment against the International Swimming League’s antitrust claims, arguing that the evidence does not support them. World Aquatics said ther... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
The UK Competition and Markets Authority won’t be publishing the three-year diversity strategy covering 2025-28 that it previously said was in development, instead resetting the plans in line with its broader ... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
January 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Business Software Alliance released its 2026 agenda, which promotes adoption of artificial intelligence and enterprise software across industries to drive productivity, create business value,... (more story)
January 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The Human Artistry Campaign announced the launch of an advocacy campaign on behalf of a broad cross-section of the American creative community to protest Big Tech's use of copyrighted works to bu... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe, Latin America, North America
MLex Summary: MLex Summary: X’s AI chatbot Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images over an 11-day period, including around 23,000 images depicting children, the Center for Countering Digital Ha... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
January 22, 2026 | Curtis Eichelberger
Europe, North America
Paramount Skydance extended its $30 per share all-cash tender offer for Warner Bros. Discovery to Feb. 20 and filed preliminary proxy materials with the US Securities and Exchange Commission in which it asked ... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Andrew Boyce
Europe
The need to make markets “resilient” to shocks is “inherent” to competition policy, according to the EU’s top merger official. Guillaume Loriot pointed to a speech by Canada’s prime minister Mark Carney on Tue... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Jon Menon
Europe
Constellation Developments, the US owner of British Car Auctions, is on track for UK clearance to buy rival ABVR Holdings after the antitrust regulator accepted that the target company would have exited the ma... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
January 22, 2026 | Júlia Tar and Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU member states have been asked to give their views on the powers, data handling and governance of a planned hub for tackling online child sexual abuse material, or CSAM, a key element of the bloc's preparati... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: An unnamed French company was fined €3.5 million in late December by the national data protection authority, for unlawfully sharing the personal data of more than 10.5 million loyalty program mem... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Júlia Tar
Europe
Proposed efforts by the European Commission to simplify EU digital rules through packages unveiled in November risk weakening existing data protection safeguards if they’re approved too quickly and without car... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
January 22, 2026 | Melissa Ritti
North America
De-institution of inter partes reviews sought by Yangtze Memory Technologies underscores the US Patent and Trademark Office’s renewed commitment to transparency, even if Director John Squires is — for now — ke... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Inbar Preiss and Charlotte Westphal
Europe
This week, the Unified Patent Court handed down several decisions, including one refusing to rule on alleged infringement claims extending beyond UPC territory. It also ruled on Ona Patents' infringement case ... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Inbar Preiss
Europe
Germany’s top court will hear VoiceAge’s patent dispute with HMD on Jan. 27, testing whether national judges can impose tougher licensing demands on technology users, or must seek guidance from the EU Court of... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
January 22, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
When former Pennsylvania coal sales executive Charles Hunter Hobson faces trial next month for alleged corruption, he intends to argue that his employer and his bosses “bought their way” out of criminal charges.
January 22, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
A UK court has ordered Seng Hok Ling — a Malaysian man who helped the “Crypto Queen” Zhimin Qian to launder the proceeds of a huge investment fraud — to pay back more than £5 million, following his jailing last year.
January 22, 2026 | Martin Coyle
Europe
An investigation into collapsed UK funeral-plan provider Safe Hands Plans and its parent company saw two men charged with fraud offenses on Thursday. Richard Wells and Neil Debenham will appear at a London cou... (more story)
Financial Services View More
January 22, 2026 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU countries are set to vote again to chose their preferred candidate to chair the European Banking Authority next week after a first ballot failed to decide between Constantinos Herodotou, former governor of ... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Investment firms that simply execute client orders in the normal course of their duties do not engage in insider dealing solely because they hold inside information about a client’s off-market pr... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Host country insurance supervisors may impose penalties on insurers operating cross-border without first completing the Solvency II cooperation procedure with the home authority, provided certain... (more story)
Trade View More
January 22, 2026 | Bradley Dress
North America
The US House of Representatives and the Senate have included provisions extending the expired trade preference programs for Africa and Haiti in a large funding bill for several federal government agencies.
January 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US International Trade Administration has imposed antidumping duty and countervailing antisubsidy duty orders on Chinese imports of overhead door counterbalance torsion springs following an A... (more story)
January 22, 2026
North America
MLex Summary: The US Commerce Department has extended the deadline for determining the adequacy of a petition for antidumping duties on winter strawberries from Mexico. Commerce said it was reviewing whether t... (more story)
State Aid View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Property developer Masserud Utvikling is challenging a decision made by the EFTA Surveillance Authority last year which ordered recovery of Norwegian support it deemed illegal, and granted to the... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Freny Patel
Asia
Championing a "techno-legal" model for regulating artificial intelligence, India's Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw argued that law alone cannot govern the digital age. Speaking at a global summit,... (more story)
January 21, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: Centro Latte Bressanone, an Italian dairy farmers' cooperative, may receive a direct grant worth 18.2 million euros from the national government, the European Commission said on Wednesday, cleari... (more story)
Energy View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The Commission is updating the methodology and data for determining the share of food and feed crops used to produce biofuels, bioliquids and biomass, in the case where expansion of the productio... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: EU electricity market, renewable energy and emergency price-intervention laws allow Italy to impose a cap on market revenues from electricity generated by certain renewable sources, the EU’s top ... (more story)
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU’s top court has dismissed Poland’s appeal against a ruling that allowed the European Commission to recover daily penalty payments imposed over continued lignite mining at the Turów site in... (more story)
Technology View More
January 22, 2026
Europe
MLex Summary: The EU must remain sovereign in enforcing its digital laws, the European Parliament said in a legislative report backed by 471 votes to 68, with 71 abstentions, on Thursday. In the report, which ... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Luca Bertuzzi
Europe
EU lawmakers are pressing the European Commission to use existing digital laws to curb AI-driven online harm to minors, citing risks from AI companion chatbots. Following the Grok deepfake scandal, lawmakers q... (more story)
January 22, 2026 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
UK lawmakers in the House of Lords approved an amendment late Wednesday that would require social media platforms to block users under 16, adding the proposal to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The ... (more story)