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China plans 7 trillion yuan infrastructure push to support AI economy
China plans to invest more than 7 trillion yuan ($1 trillion) this year in infrastructure and public-service facilities, including artificial intelligence-related c... (more story)
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South Korean auditor questions KFTC's cartel leniency, fine calculations, case handling
South Korea’s competition regulator was faulted by the country’s audit watchdog over some core parts of its enforcement work, with auditors flagging loopholes in ca... (more story)
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Philippine digital platform study urges privacy integration into competition law
A market study by the Philippine Competition Commission recommends integrating data privacy considerations into the Philippine Competition Act and strengthening coo... (more story)
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Sony abused its market power to overcharge UK digital gamers of the company’s PlayStation platform, a mass claimant has told a UK judge. Consumer-rights activist Alex Neill is seeking billions of pounds in dam... (more story)
China’s prosecutors filed 31 antitrust public-interest litigation cases in 2025, up 93.8 percent year-on-year, according to white papers released Tuesday by the Supreme People’s Procuratorate. The figures were... (more story)
Hong Kong's Competition Tribunal dismissed an antitrust case against two hotel operators accused of facilitating price-fixing between travel service competitors, ruling that the Competition Commission should h... (more story)
Farming business Stillwater Pastoral’s market-power case is built on an “irretrievably flawed” economic model that ignores the commercial realities of Australia’s electricity market, CS Energy told a court on ... (more story)
South Korea’s major oil refiners — GS Caltex, Hyundai Oilbank, S-Oil and SK Energy — are facing antitrust scrutiny over a recent surge in fuel prices following the war with Iran. The probe by the country’s com... (more story)
Mercedes-Benz was fined 11.2 billion won ($7.6 million) by South Korea’s antitrust regulator for misleading consumers about the battery cells used in some of its electric vehicles, in a case that also triggere... (more story)
The National Football League at a US appeals court on Monday defended a trial judge’s decision to throw out a jury verdict finding it violated US antitrust laws in a case brought by NFL Sunday Ticket subscribers.
Brazil’s competition authority has formally questioned Meta over its plan to begin charging AI chatbot providers for messages sent to Brazilian WhatsApp users, suggesting that the change may conflict with rest... (more story)
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US states suing Live Nation and Ticketmaster over alleged monopolization of the entertainment ticketing industry have quick and critical decisions to make this week on the timing and means of how to pursue cla... (more story)
Brazil’s antitrust authority is turning up the pressure on Ericsson and Motorola, demanding detailed explanations for their global litigation tactics in a long‑running 5G patent dispute that the companies had ... (more story)
California’s motion for a preliminary injunction against Amazon over alleged price-fixing could allow the state to have the conduct evaluated under a stricter legal standard, something it failed to secure earl... (more story)
Sony's defense — at an upcoming mass claim trial in the UK over alleged exploitative conduct through its PlayStation operation — bets on convincing competition judges that the videogames sector has unique mark... (more story)
President Lee Jae Myung’s aggressive rhetoric on collusion and pricing can be read as a politically understandable push to restore market order and relieve pressure on households. But for the Korea Fair Trade ... (more story)
The US Department of Justice filed a statement of interest in a price-fixing case over Circana’s PotatoTrack product, maintaining a focus on anticompetitive information sharing and further clarifying the condi... (more story)
The US Department of Justice and US Federal Trade Commission’s joint inquiry over potential reissuance of guidance on collaboration between competitors is a green light for heavy lobbying from the antitrust ba... (more story)
US policymakers have shown an increased interest in standard-essential patents (SEPs) in recent months, as stakeholders tell MLex that 2026 will be critical for both patent owners and standard implementers. Wi... (more story)