The <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/6152Z%20LN%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1ad5-d583-afbf-daddbe6d0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">UK’s financial watchdog pushed back against criticism of its plan to name firms it’s investigating at an early stage, which it thinks will boost transparency and deterrence.

The top US auto-safety regulator is again investigating <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/TSLA%20US%20Equity/BICO","_id":"0000018f-1ad5-d583-afbf-daddc3ef0000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Tesla Inc.’s Autopilot, this time over whether a fix deployed months ago did enough to stop people from misusing the system.

Funds managed by affiliates of <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/9990822D%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1a2c-d583-afbf-dafc60850000","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Apollo Global Management Inc. will buy frack-sand provider <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/SLCA%20US%20Equity/FA","_id":"0000018f-1a2c-d583-afbf-dafc60850001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">US Silica Holdings Inc. for $1.21 billion, the latest in a wave of acquisitions in the shale industry.

Anglo American Plc has rejected a $39 billion takeover proposal from BHP Group, saying it significantly undervalues the company.

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UK cybersecurity company <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-1a03-d583-afbf-dadfd73f0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Darktrace Plc agreed to sell itself to private equity firm <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/129626Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1a03-d583-afbf-dadfd73f0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Thoma Bravo for an equity value of about $5.32 billion.

Farmworkers on temporary visas would get new protections aimed at bolstering labor organizing efforts under newly finalized Labor Department regulations.

The US Department of Labor is facing yet another lawsuit challenging the legality of its newly-minted worker classification rule, the second to be filed by a family-owned trucking company.

Brittany Pietsch inspired a wave of copycats after she posted on TikTok a recording of her tense conversation with two Cloudflare representatives informing her that she was being let go.

Paul Weiss has been stymied in its effort to open a Houston office, as top equity partners at rival firms spurned recruitment efforts.

Alston & Bird’s Daniella Main and Brooke Bolender say Marriott litigation has broad impact for consumer contracts and enforceability of class action waivers.

Wiley’s Diana Shaw explains the new OIG notice requirement and lays out considerations for business entities.

UK cybersecurity company <-rte-company state="{"_id":"0000018f-1a03-d583-afbf-dadfd73f0000","_type":"00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000"}">Darktrace Plc agreed to sell itself to private equity firm <-bsp-bb-link state="{"bbHref":"bbg://securities/129626Z%20US%20Equity","_id":"0000018f-1a03-d583-afbf-dadfd73f0001","_type":"0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000"}">Thoma Bravo for an equity value of about $5.32 billion.

OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker, is expanding its global people-powered lobbying, policy, and messaging teams, as it works to shape government rules for artificial intelligence, and to win converts for its tools from Capitol Hill to far-flung foreign countries.

Brittany Pietsch inspired a wave of copycats after she posted on TikTok a recording of her tense conversation with two Cloudflare representatives informing her that she was being let go.

Paul Weiss has been stymied in its effort to open a Houston office, as top equity partners at rival firms spurned recruitment efforts.

Alston & Bird’s Daniella Main and Brooke Bolender say Marriott litigation has broad impact for consumer contracts and enforceability of class action waivers.

Co-founded by Sam Altman, the crypto and AI project has faced scrutiny around the world for its eyeball scans.

A cause celebre is ringing out across Harvard Yard, Columbia’s South Lawn, Yale’s Beinecke Plaza and UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza: Disclose and divest.

Companies will have to pay millions of dollars to clean up more contaminated sites due to the EPA’s new Superfund PFAS rule, but site selection will take time and use predictable criteria, mandated data, and established processes, attorneys said.

A coalition of 17 red state attorneys general have filed a lawsuit against the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, targeting its addition of abortion in recently finalized regulations protecting pregnant workers.

The School District of Philadelphia is free of some civil rights claims lodged by a Black former program manager, but her other allegations, made under a different racial discrimination law survive, a federal judge said.

Three New York City Department of Education executives have agreed to settle their suit over allegations that they were demoted and replaced with less-qualified Black workers, according to a federal judge’s order.

CoreCivic of Tennessee LLC will face trial on claims by a former employee with anxiety, depression, and other mental health conditions that his firing violated Montana wrongful discharge and disability discrimination laws.