In this episode, Michael Volkov examines the November 12, 2026 resignation of Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang amid an independent board investigation into reports that he was the target of a foreign intelligence effort through a relationship with a Chinese businesswoman, separating what is known from what the investigation has yet to establish. He explains why a CEO’s personal conduct becomes a corporate security and governance...

In this episode, Michael Volkov examines the latest trends in civil antitrust enforcement and litigation and what companies should do now to reduce the risk of government action and private lawsuits. He covers the Antitrust Division’s October 2026 message that it prefers early, negotiated remedies but will litigate (illustrated by the abandoned TransDigm–Stellant deal), the focus on household-cost sectors such as healthcare, housing, and food,...

Posting your prices isn’t the same as telling patients the truth about them. On October 5th of this year, the FTC sent warning letters to 24 of the nation’s largest healthcare services companies, reminding them that patients are entitled to timely, accurate, and complete pricing, especially for scheduled non-emergency care. Failing to provide it can be an unfair or deceptive practice under the FTC Act....

In this episode, Michael Volkov reviews six trends in criminal antitrust enforcement in 2026 and ten compliance reminders that follow from them. Drawing on the Antitrust Division’s statistics, budget submission, and recent speeches by its criminal enforcement chief, he explains that criminal cases filed have rebounded from 9 in fiscal 2023 to 27 in 2025, that prison sentences more than doubled while corporate fines collapsed,...

Most companies have AI in two different rooms. Innovation buys the tools. Compliance writes the policy. Nobody connects it. Here’s the core idea. There are two tracks in one program. Track one: use AI to strengthen compliance in screening, monitoring, third-party diligence, hotline triage, and investigations. Track two: govern the risk AI creates, from shadow AI and data leakage to unverified output, bias, and deliberate...