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Artificial Intelligence
July 11, 2025 | Frank Hersey
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
Data Privacy and Security, Technology
July 11, 2025 | Patricia Figueiredo
Europe
DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions
July 10, 2025 | Wesley Brown
North America
Antitrust View More
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater of the US Department Justice’s Antitrust Division said that when companies abuse their market power to block and deplatform independent voices and protec... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Administrators for Phones4U have failed to convince UK appeal judges that the High Court made a flawed ruling, when it said they didn’t show that O2, Vodafone and EE had forced the now-defunct co... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Freny Patel
Asia
Rather than imposing immediate regulation on artificial intelligence, the Indian antitrust watchdog intends to adopt a cautious approach while acquiring an understanding of the evolving dynamics and benefits o... (more story)
Artificial Intelligence View More
July 11, 2025 | MLex Staff
Asia,North America
Chinese artificial intelligence start-up Manus AI has relocated its global headquarters from China to Singapore while also slashing its domestic operations. The move comes as the company maneuvers through esca... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Asia
MLex Summary: Minister of Communication and Digital Affairs Meutya Hafid said Indonesia is collaborating with the International Telecommunications Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations, to support ... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Meta Platforms is funding a $1 million program to attract AI engineers into the UK government to use open-source AI models such as its own Llama 3.5 to build AI tools for public services, which c... (more story)
Mergers and Acquisitions View More
July 11, 2025
North America
MLx Summary: T-Mobile sent a letter to the US Federal Communications Commission objecting to the disclosure of confidential and highly confidential information to counsel for Verizon Communications. "Given tha... (more story)
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: The Communications Workers of America sent a letter to the US Federal Communication Commission saying it is concerned the proposed transaction between T-Mobile and UScellular "will further entren... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Nicholas Hirst and Lewis Crofts
Europe
Vivendi is facing a formal chargesheet from EU merger regulators over its 2023 acquisition of Lagardère, MLex has learned. The regulator will soon flesh out allegations that the French media conglomerate breac... (more story)
Data Privacy and Security View More
July 11, 2025 | Matthew Newman
Europe
Meta Platforms Ireland has filed an appeal at the EU's highest court against a lower EU court decision that rejected the company's challenge of an opinion by an umbrella group of EU data protection authorities... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: The role of app stores in verifying the age of a user will be analyzed in an upcoming EU survey, the European Commission said today. The new consultation seeks input from industry and civil socie... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Social media platforms must face stricter regulations to prevent misinformation and disinformation, a UK parliamentary committee has warned today, arguing that the Online Safety Act is inadequate... (more story)
Intellectual Property View More
July 11, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Intellectual property owners hoping to put a quick end to online counterfeits continue to seek relief in the Northern District of Illinois in overwhelming numbers. It’s a practice one judge there has halted — ... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Melissa Ritti
North America
Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and the Bank of New York Mellon were denied summary judgment this week in a case brought by their former investment analyst André Pauwels. The ruling, which could carry big ... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Douglas Clarke-Williams
Europe
The UK became the first major signatory of an emerging global treaty to streamline procedures for design protection today, joining 19 other countries. For the UK to sign the Riyadh Design Law Treaty potentiall... (more story)
Financial Crime View More
July 11, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: Methode Electronics disclosed it has received a second subpoena from the US Securities and Exchange Commission seeking documents and information regarding the company's operations abroad, and its... (more story)
July 10, 2025
Africa
MLex Summary: South Africa has made progress in detecting and investigating foreign bribery cases, despite an undermining of the rule of law and weakening of its law enforcement institutions during a period of... (more story)
July 10, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld
North America
A former Russian banker reached a deferred-prosecution agreement with US authorities to resolve charges that he helped a blacklisted oligarch violate sanctions. In recent months, the government’s case against him unraveled.
Financial Services View More
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: EU companies will see some of the 2024 simplified rules on sustainability reporting extended to the 2025 and 2026 financial years, the European Commission said in a statement today. Under the cur... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Fanny Roux
Europe
EU governments and lawmakers this week provisionally agreed on several provisions including “finfluencers” and financial education during a meeting on the Retail Investment Strategy legal package, sources in b... (more story)
July 10, 2025
North America
MLex Summary: First Liberty Building & Loan and its founder and owner Edwin Brant Frost IV have been accused by the US Securities and Exchange Commission of engaging in a Ponzi scheme that defrauded approximat... (more story)
Trade View More
July 11, 2025 | Joanna Sopinska
Europe
As the suspension of the EU’s 21 billion-euro retaliation against US steel tariffs nears its expiry on Monday, July 14, the bloc’s trade ministers will meet that day to discuss a possible extension, amid ongoi... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Zack Budryk
Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America, Oceania
US President Donald Trump, in a letter posted to social media last night, threatened Canada, America’s largest trading partner, with 35 percent tariffs if an August 1 deadline for a deal is not reached.
July 11, 2025 | Oscar Pandiello
Europe
Failing to include a common framework for customs penalties in the EU’s ongoing reform will risk creating loopholes and “distortion of competition,” the European Commission has warned. Customs chief Matthias P... (more story)
State Aid View More
July 11, 2025 | Simon Zekaria
Europe
The New Lottery Company told a UK judge today that it needs clarity on the defense of its lawsuit against the Gambling Commission, a non-departmental public body of the UK government, over an alleged unlawful ... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Australia shouldn’t retaliate against tariffs imposed by the US government on goods and services because to do so would “come at a cost” for the economy, Australia’s independent economic-advisory... (more story)
July 09, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Rail-freight operators in Norway may receive compensation for economic losses suffered after a bridge was closed due to safety concerns, the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. The watchdog c... (more story)
Energy View More
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: French companies have pledged to invest a total of more than 1 billion pounds ($1.3 billion) in the UK's energy, aviation, tech and finance sectors, as part of a new UK-France industrial strategy... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Asia, Europe
MLex Summary: EU and Chinese officials will meet on Monday for the sixth EU-China High-Level Environment and Climate Dialogue, the European Commission said in a statement today. Discussions will focus on the E... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Choonsik Yoo
Asia
South Korea plans to develop a national power-grid innovation plan, that includes building an energy superhighway using advanced technologies such as HVDC and distributed power grids, to support the growth of ... (more story)
Technology View More
July 11, 2025
Europe
MLex Summary: Online platforms have fresh insights on identifying deepfakes as UK regulator Ofcom published a discussion paper examining tools such as watermarking, provenance metadata, AI labels and context a... (more story)
July 11, 2025 | Sachiko Sakamaki
Asia
Japan's industry ministry is intensifying its supervision of the relationship of large platform operators with smaller Japanese businesses to ensure fairness and transparency. The move comes four years after t... (more story)
July 11, 2025
Oceania
MLex Summary: Seven out of 10 Australian children aged between 10 and 15 have encountered social-media content associated with online harm, according to new research released today by the online-safety watchdo... (more story)