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EU regulators point to DMA’s potential AI focus areas, enforcement gaps December 15, 2025 | Luca Bertuzzi and Lewis Crofts

The EU's powerful law against digital gatekeepers could clamp down on bottlenecks in the access to data and infrastructure needed to power AI technology, but there are enforcement gaps and tricky questions aro... (more story)

Japanese companies improve cost pass-through, but issues persist, JFTC says December 15, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

More Japanese companies have begun accepting higher procurement prices from their suppliers to reflect rising energy, material and labor costs, according to the results of a survey by the country's competition... (more story)

China targets auto price wars with proposed pricing guidelines December 15, 2025 | MLex Staff

China's State Administration for Market Regulation has released draft compliance guidelines for pricing conduct in the automobile sector to curb disorderly competition and restore fair market conditions. The d... (more story)

AI is essential to understanding how businesses operate, Australian watchdog says December 15, 2025 | Saloni Sinha

Engaging with and using artificial intelligence is essential for regulators because it is becoming critical to how businesses make decisions, an Australian competition official has said. In a webinar, an offic... (more story)

Pepsi worked with Walmart to create price gaps to hurt rivals, US FTC complaint says December 12, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

Pepsi worked with Walmart to create a retail “price gap” or “price hedge” between the hypermarket chain and its competitors in the resale of Pepsi soft drinks, according to an unsealed complaint filed by the B... (more story)

US judge mulls departure from ‘old-fashioned’ scheduling in vape antitrust case December 12, 2025 | Chris May

A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over an alleged antitrust conspiracy involving cannabis oil vaporizing systems said on Friday that he’s been reconsidering a negative “knee-jerk r... (more story)

Microsoft says UK collective claim over its cloud licensing is defective December 12, 2025 | Simon Zekaria

Microsoft has told a UK judge that a planned UK collective action seeking damages over its cloud licensing operations is invalid because its methodology is defective. The tech giant's arguments wrapped up a tw... (more story)

Meta to face Italian antitrust enforcer in interim measures hearing December 12, 2025 | Anna Ferrari and Nicholas Hirst

Meta will appear at a closed-door hearing in Rome on Tuesday, to contest a move by the Italian antitrust authority to temporarily keep AI chatbots on WhatsApp. The meeting, to be attended by investigators, Met... (more story)

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Latest Meta probes involve novel AI tech but familiar antitrust claims December 15, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst

Meta Platforms must explain to enforcers why it opened up WhatsApp to companies large and small a few years ago, only to now expel other companies' AI chatbots that compete with its own Meta AI service. Regula... (more story)

Is IndiGo solely to blame for India's aviation meltdown, or are regulators at fault too? December 15, 2025 | Freny Patel

India’s early-December aviation collapse has sparked calls to probe IndiGo for abuse of dominance. Yet the deeper issue is how merger control allowed such extreme market concentration — and why the Competition... (more story)

Ross, Westlaw appeal tackles both longstanding US precedent, novel AI December 12, 2025 | Emma Whitford and Melissa Ritti

There is no shortage of interest in an ongoing clash between Ross Intelligence and Thomson Reuters in what could yield the first US appellate ruling on whether the use of copyrighted materials to train an arti... (more story)

Japan reinvents industry policy to protect technologies and supply chains December 04, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki

Japan is recalibrating its industrial policy to safeguard critical technologies and secure domestic supplies of strategic materials, amid escalating geopolitical tensions and widening export controls by major ... (more story)

Alaska, Hawaiian Air flyers detail harms to renew suit, show standing December 03, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski and Flavia Fortes

Consumers who want to unwind the Alaska-Hawaiian Airlines merger have returned to court with an amended lawsuit, telling the judge who rejected their prior effort to block the merger that they have ample proof... (more story)

Media Matters win against US FTC paves way for GDI success on investigative demand December 03, 2025 | Alex Wilts and Madeline Hughes

The Global Disinformation Index, or GDI, has joined Media Matters in asking a US court to curb the Federal Trade Commission’s probe into an alleged advertiser boycott — a challenge that is expected to see simi... (more story)

AI partnerships proliferate amid lax US antitrust scrutiny December 02, 2025 | Clayton Vickers and Chris May

Business partnerships between Big Tech and AI players of all shapes and sizes offer an easy target for US federal antitrust enforcers who have revived a previously neglected tool for cracking down on anticompe... (more story)

Motorola settlement fails to silence antitrust concerns as Brazil deepens 5G patent scrutiny December 02, 2025 | Maria Júlia Baumert

Brazil’s competition authority is moving forward with an investigation into Ericsson’s 5G patent licensing practices after receiving an unexpectedly high volume of market feedback, suggesting the sector may be... (more story)