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Sources: Apple and the DOJ are in early discussions about settling a 2024 antitrust lawsuit alleging that Apple violated antitrust laws (Bloomberg)

Sen. Elizabeth Warren and seven Democratic House members write to the DOJ, calling for an impartial antitrust review of Fox Corp's planned $22B Roku acquisition (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Lawmakers Call For “Impartial” DOJ Probe of Fox’s $22 Billion Roku Buy
Democratic politicians, led by U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and U.S. Representative Becca Balint, raised concerns of “recent rubber-stamping of deals” that may violate antitrust laws and impede enforcement.  

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WiseTech says Australian antitrust authorities raided its office, seeking documents and data as part of an alleged competition law breach probe; WTC falls 8% (Angus Whitley/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/the-eu-approved-an-antideforestation-law-the-us-paper-lobby-sought-to-weaken-it/

The EU approved an antideforestation law. The US paper lobby sought to weaken it
When the European Union’s new anti-deforestation law threatened to expose the environmental costs of logging in North America’s forests, the American paper industry, supported by the U.S. government, mobilized an intense lobbying effort to weaken the legislation. According to lobbying disclosures, the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA), a leading trade group representing paper and […]

Paramount agrees to a request from 12 states, led by CA, to link their federal antitrust case in the WBD merger to an existing Paramount subscriber lawsuit (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/paramount-states-antitrust-cas…

Paramount Agrees to States' Move to Link Antitrust Case to Subscriber Suit
Paramount has agreed to tie the antitrust suit to an earlier case, meaning the state case will end up before Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin.

A US judge orders X and SpaceXAI to explain why they dropped antitrust claims against Apple, after OpenAI's request for information on the purported agreement (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/15/elon-musk-antitrust-apple-…

eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.

A federal judge denies OpenAI's bid to see SpaceXAI's confidential settlement with Apple in an antitrust case, finding the materials irrelevant after a review (Hassan Ali Kanu/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/18/court-shuts-down-openai-bid…