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US Assistant Attorney General nominee Abigail Slater.

DealRisk®, Mergers and Acquisitions

July 10, 2025 | Wesley Brown

North America

T-Mobile, UScellular deal clears US DOJ investigation

Artificial Intelligence

July 10, 2025 | Emma Whitford

North America

Axon AI tool for US police reports shows need for transparency, EFF says

Antitrust, Technology

July 10, 2025 | Khushita Vasant and Clayton Vickers

North America

Apple, Visa, Mastercard defeat US claims over illegal market allocation

Antitrust View More

Japan's METI steps up oversight of digital platforms ahead of new smartphone law

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)

US FTC chairman still wants noncompete rule defense to be reconsidered, court told

July 11, 2025 | Khushita Vasant

North America

US Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson isn't in favor of pursuing a court battle over the commission's noncompete rule even as the agency today asked an appeals court to extend a stay on litigati... (more story)

US FTC asks Fifth Circuit to extend stay on noncompete suit by 60 days

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Federal Trade Commission filed a motion to extend a stay in a lawsuit in a case involving a challenge to its noncompete rulemaking. In a filing to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Cir... (more story)

Artificial Intelligence View More

South Korea working on power-grid plan seen as 'essential' for AI ambitions

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)

US judge orders OpenAI, Musk to share key documents in nonprofit status suit

July 11, 2025 | Amy Miller

North America

OpenAI and Elon Musk will have to produce financial and corporate documents they’ve been reluctant to hand over in their closely watched legal dispute over the artificial intelligence company’s for-profit stat... (more story)

EU should ban possession of AI child abuse imagery, UK’s Internet Watch Foundation says

July 11, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Internet Watch Foundation — a UK-based hotline for detecting and removing online child sexual abuse material — is calling on EU lawmakers to urgently amend the draft of the Child Sexual Abuse... (more story)

Mergers and Acquisitions View More

Constellation divestitures must go to smaller player, monitor tells US FERC

July 10, 2025 | Ilana Kowarski

North America

Though electricity provider Constellation Energy reached a partial settlement with a regional market monitor regarding its planned acquisition of Calpine last week, the monitor contacted the US Federal Energy ... (more story)

Constellation divestiture buyer should be smaller than merged entity, market monitor says

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Though power companies Constellation Energy and Calpine Corporation have reached a partial settlement with Monitoring Analytics — the independent market monitor for PJM Interconnection — regardin... (more story)

US DOJ closes merger investigation of T-Mobile’s acquisition of UScellular

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The US Department of Justice closed its antitrust investigation of T-Mobile’s acquisition of UScellular. In choosing to allow the merger, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater said “UScellular s... (more story)

Data Privacy and Security View More

Most Australian children have viewed harmful content, online watchdog report says

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)

Google, Meta seek dismissal of US privacy claims over web tracking by BlueChew

July 10, 2025 | Xu Yuan

North America

Google and Meta urged a US federal court to throw out privacy allegations against them over the use of their website tracking technologies by a telehealth company focusing on erectile dysfunction medication be... (more story)

Google opposes South Dakota motion for reconsideration in adtech case

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Google told a Texas federal judge that he should deny the state of South Dakota's request for reconsideration of an order granting a motion to strike a jury trial right on the state's deceptive-t... (more story)

Intellectual Property View More

Lava directed to pay $2.3 million security deposit in Dolby SEP dispute by Indian court

July 11, 2025 | Freny Patel

Asia

In a ruling that further shapes India's standard essential patent jurisprudence, domestic smartphone maker Lava has been directed to pay a security deposit of $2.3 million for past sales. The Delhi High Court ... (more story)

US Federal Circuit wary of deciding prosecution laches issue in Google-Sonos case

July 10, 2025 | Nick Robertson

North America

A panel of judges at the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today limited substantive discussion of the merits of the doctrine of prosecution laches during oral arguments in Google v. Sonos, a patent ... (more story)

Chint and JingAo see security for costs orders in their UPC patent dispute

July 10, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: The Court of Appeal of the Unified Patent Court issued two orders in the dispute between Chinese companies Chint New Energy Technology and JingAo Solar. In the case concerning European Patent 2,7... (more story)

Financial Crime View More

Former Russian banker reaches deal with US for aiding sanctioned oligarch

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.

Four arrested amid UK probe into M&S, Co-op, Harrods hacks

July 10, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Four people have been arrested in the UK as part of an investigation into cyber attacks targeting M&S, Co-op and Harrods. The National Crime Agency said the people were arrested in the West Midla... (more story)

New Zealand will shut down crypto ATMs as part of AML revamp

July 10, 2025

Oceania

MLex Summary: Crypto ATMs will be shut down by the New Zealand government, as part of a range of new anti-money laundering measures announced by the government. In a statement, Associate Justice Minister Nicol... (more story)

Financial Services View More

Financial Stability Board urges nations to prepare for nonbank leverage risks

July 10, 2025 | Neil Roland

Asia, Europe, Latin America, Middle East, North America

Nations should form domestic frameworks to capture nonbank leverage risks to financial stability that have inflamed a number of market crises in recent years, the Financial Stability Board said. Nonbank financ... (more story)

BPI says revisions to large bank supervisory ratings in US overdue but welcome

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Bank Policy Institute President and CEO Greg Baer said that the US Federal Reserve’s decision to revise its supervisory ratings framework applied to large financial institutions is overdue but we... (more story)

Jonathan Gould confirmed as head of US OCC

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Jonathan Gould was confirmed to be the US Comptroller of the Currency by a vote of 50-45.

Trade View More

Don't respond to Trump's trade policies with tariffs, Australia's economic adviser warns

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)

Malaysia reiterates concerns over 25 percent US tariff during meeting with Rubio

July 11, 2025 | Dalila Abu Bakar

Asia, North America

Malaysia's prime minister raised concerns about the economic impact of a 25 percent tariff on Malaysian products entering the US during a meeting yesterday with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Prime Ministe... (more story)

USCIT judge presses Commerce lawyers on de minimis repeal executive order

July 10, 2025 | Zack Budryk

North America

Judge Jane Restani of the US Court of International Trade seemed broadly skeptical of the federal government’s argument that the suspension of the de minimis exemption for Chinese imports was severable from th... (more story)

State Aid View More

Norwegian rail-freight operators can have aid for traffic disruption, watchdog says

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)

Changes to Norwegian aid for media approved, EFTA watchdog says

July 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Norway's updated innovation and development program for news and current affairs media has received approval from the EFTA Surveillance Authority, the watchdog said today. The revision ensures th... (more story)

CargoNet can have Norwegian aid, EFTA watchdog says

July 09, 2025

Europe

MLex Summary: Norway's rail freight incumbent CargoNet has been cleared to receive a government grant of up to 475 million kroner (around $47 million), the EFTA Surveillance Authority said today. The regulator... (more story)

Energy View More

Adapt to guard EU energy infrastructure from climate risks, electricity lobby warns

July 10, 2025 | Patrick Hatzis and Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

National energy regulators should treat climate resilience as a core responsibility given increasing risks to power infrastructure from extreme weather events, European electricity industry lobby Eurelectric s... (more story)

Energy company Repsol fined EUR1.38 million by Spanish watchdog for data misuse (update*)

July 10, 2025 | Júlia Tar

Europe

Spain’s data protection authority has fined energy company Repsol 1.38 million euros for breaching the EU's General Data Protection Regulation after the company mistakenly used an individual’s personal data to... (more story)

UK power market to see changes after government rejects zonal pricing

July 10, 2025 | Eleonora Rinaldi

Europe

The UK electricity market won't be divided into zones to optimize pricing but will instead undergo reforms aimed at improving market efficiency, the UK government said today following the conclusion of its ele... (more story)

Technology View More

Electronic Frontier Foundation, others support injunction against Texas SCOPE Act

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The Electronic Frontier Foundation and others told a US appeals court that Texas’s Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment Act violates the First Amendment rights of Texas minors an... (more story)

ACLU, TechFreedom, others say Texas SCOPE Act is overinclusive

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: The American Civil Liberties Union, TechFreedom and others told the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that Texas’ law to impose restrictions on social media platforms aimed at protecting ... (more story)

US House committees introduce joint, bipartisan bill for national NIL framework

July 10, 2025

North America

MLex Summary: Leadership from the US House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Committee on Education and Workforce, and Committee on the Judiciary introduced the SCORE Act which aims to empower student-athletes... (more story)